US Patent Issued to COOK MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES on June 3 for "Therapeutic agents for delivery using a catheter and pressure source" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,573, issued on June 3, was assigned to COOK MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Bloomington, Ind.).

"Therapeutic agents for delivery using a catheter and pressure source" was invented by Shaun D. Gittard (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments provide systems and methods suitable for delivering a therapeutic agent to a target site. A container holds the therapeutic agent and a pressure source has pressurized fluid in selective fluid communication with at least a portion of the container. A catheter, in fluid communication with the container, has a lumen sized for delivery of the therapeutic agent to a target ...