ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,556, issued on June 3, was assigned to ORBUSNEICH MEDICAL PTE. LTD. (Singapore).
"Progressive flexibility catheter support frame" was invented by Robert J. Cottone (Davie, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cut-pattern designs creating a frame structure from a solid tube, which may be used as a portion of medical device, such as a catheter. The tube includes a plurality of units of cutout segments which are distributed in a band around a circumference of the tube. A tube can have multiple different zones, each having units with varying cutout segments. The cutout segments can have varying cutout surface area allowing the flexibility ...