US Patent Issued to FASTWAVE MEDICAL on Aug. 5 for "Intravascular lithotripsy" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,869, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to FASTWAVE MEDICAL INC. (Dover, Del.).

"Intravascular lithotripsy" was invented by Edward Anderson (Maple Grove, Minn.), Randy Beyreis (Andover, Minn.), Scott Nelson (Mission Viejo, Calif.), JiChao Sun (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Brady Hatcher (Rogers, Minn.), Ae-Suk Pauling (St. Michael, Minn.), Daryl Kiefer (Howard Lake, Minn.), Dannah Dean (Minnetonka, Minn.), Curtis Goreham-Voss (Maple Grove, Minn.), Parker Hagen (Maple Grove, Minn.), Tristan Tieso (Minneapolis) and Lauren Eno (Minnetonka, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device may include an elongated body, a balloon positioned at a d...