US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on July 1 for "Intravascular ultrasound systems, catheters, and methods with a manual pullback arrangement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,200, issued on July 1, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Intravascular ultrasound systems, catheters, and methods with a manual pullback arrangement" was invented by John D. Marshall (Los Gatos, Calif.), Peter Thornton Jr. (Los Altos, Calif.), Lewis J. Thomas III (Palo Alto, Calif.), Isaac J. Zacharias (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Gaylin Mildred Yee (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter assembly for an ultrasound system can include an integrated pullback arrangement. For example, the catheter assembly can include a telescoping pullback section having a first telescope, a second telesc...