US Patent Issued to Caldera Medical on April 1 for "Apparatus and method for removal of intrauterine fibroid formations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,908, issued on April 1, was assigned to Caldera Medical Inc. (Westlake Village, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for removal of intrauterine fibroid formations" was invented by Mike Collinson (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Manish Vaishya (Agoura Hills, Calif.) and Jose Luis Charvet (Agoura Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive system for a tissue resection device that drives a cutting tube in a rotating and reciprocating motion simultaneously. The cutting tube moves within an outer tube having a window at a distal end thereof. When activation of the device ceases, the device remains powered until the cutting tube assumes an ext...