US Patent Issued to Retriever Medical on Aug. 5 for "Catheters with expandable and collapsible lumens" (Pennsylvania, California, Florida, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,244, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Retriever Medical Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Catheters with expandable and collapsible lumens" was invented by Michael Bruce Horowitz (Naples, Fla.), Brandon Matthew Repko (Mars, Pa.), Hieu Le (Fountain Valley, Calif.) and Benjamin William Bobo (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter device that includes a conduit having an outer wall, an internal lumen, and proximal and distal ends. The conduit further includes first and second pluralities of electrical conduits embedded in the outer wall of the conduit, which are adapted to transmit electrical current therethrough in a first direction and ...