US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC VASCULAR on Feb. 10 for "Tissue-removing catheter with coupled inner liner" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,099, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MEDTRONIC VASCULAR INC. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Tissue-removing catheter with coupled inner liner" was invented by Alan Ryan (Galway, Ireland), Eoghan Jennings (Summerhill, Ireland) and Aran Murray (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a tissue-removing catheter that includes an elongate body with proximal and distal end portions, a tissue-removing element, an inner liner, and a coupling assembly. The tissue-removing element removes tissue by rotation from the elongate body. The inner liner defines a guidewire lumen received within the elongate body and ...