ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,100, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to C. R. Bard Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).
"Endovascular cutting catheter and related method" was invented by Ryan Melloy (Fountain Hills, Ariz.) and Cassandra Van Allen (Tempe, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for treating a lesion in a vasculature has a catheter shaft (12) with a plurality of openings (16), which may be axially spaced. One or more cutters (18,18') are adapted for moving from a retraced position to a deployed position projecting from one of the plurality of openings for cutting the lesion, such as by being biased toward the opening and retracting upon engaging a leading ...