US Patent Issued to Confluent Medical Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Methods of manufacturing nested balloons utilizing pressurized constrained annealing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,731, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Confluent Medical Technologies Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Methods of manufacturing nested balloons utilizing pressurized constrained annealing" was invented by Eric Mabry (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.), Matthew F. Tonge (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Don Ngo-Chu (Milpitas, Calif.) and Kevin Justin Herrera (Sherman Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nested balloon is provided where each balloon is formed from tubing that optimizes the inner wall stretch thus providing maximum balloon strength. The high pressure, nested balloon is provided with layers that allow for slipping, such that the balloon has ...