US Patent Issued to SANUWAVE on July 22 for "Method of treating a blood vessel with multiple shock wave discharge points in a catheter balloon" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,493, issued on July 22, was assigned to SANUWAVE INC. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Method of treating a blood vessel with multiple shock wave discharge points in a catheter balloon" was invented by Iulian Cioanta (Milton, Ga.) and Christopher Cashman (Duluth, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target location of a blood vessel is treated by providing an apparatus that includes a catheter and multiple shock wave discharge points positioned within a balloon along the catheter between proximal and distal ends of the catheter, wherein the distal end extends distally beyond the balloon and the proximal end extends proximally beyond the balloon. ...