US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on May 13 for "High power atherectomy with multiple safety limits" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,614, issued on May 13, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"High power atherectomy with multiple safety limits" was invented by Matthew Saterbak (Big Lake, Minn.), Corydon Carlson (Stillwater, Minn.) and Andrew David Bicek (Elk River, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An atherectomy system includes an electric drive mechanism that is adapted to rotatably actuate an atherectomy burr and a controller that is adapted to regulate operation of the electric drive mechanism. The controller regulates operation of the electric drive mechanism in accordance with a power input limit value that limits how much ...