US Patent Issued to Medtronic Vascular on Sept. 30 for "In-situ fenestration devices with ultrasonic cutter" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,910, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Medtronic Vascular Inc. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"In-situ fenestration devices with ultrasonic cutter" was invented by Yogesh A. Darekar (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Amal Elgamil (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Christina E. Franke (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Kevin M. Mauch (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Anish S. Nigade (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-situ fenestration device. The device includes a sheath, a sonic catheter extending with the sheath and having a cutting tool at a distal section thereof, and a balloon catheter extending within the sonic catheter. The cutting tool of the sonic catheter ...