US Patent Issued to ReFlow Medical on Sept. 30 for "Re-entry catheter" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,903, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ReFlow Medical Inc. (San Clemente, Calif.).

"Re-entry catheter" was invented by Outhit Bouasaysy (Corona, Calif.), John Fulkerson (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Isa Rizk (San Diego) and Fadi Saab (Ada, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery system can be provided with an ability to change its configurations to achieve both access to target anatomy and treatment thereof. Such treatments can include directing interventional devices around an occlusion. By providing different functionality at different stages, the need to exchange and replace tools at different stages can be reduced ...