ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,394, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Lifetech Scientific (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Guangdong, China).

"Medical cutting assembly and volume reduction catheter system" was invented by Xingyu Wu (Shenzhen, China), Han Long (Shenzhen, China) and Zhenbiao Zhou (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical cutting assembly (10) and a volume reduction catheter system are provided. The medical cutting assembly (10) includes a cutter head (101) and a limiting member (102) connected to the cutter head (101), where the cutter head (101) includes a delivery portion (1012); the limiting member (102) includes a decomposing portion (1021)...