US Patent Issued to SCIENTIA VASCULAR on Feb. 11 for "Micro-fabricated intravascular devices having varying diameters" (Nevada, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,538, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to SCIENTIA VASCULAR INC. (West Valley City, Utah).

"Micro-fabricated intravascular devices having varying diameters" was invented by John Lippert (Incline Village, Nev.) and Edward J. Snyder (Park City, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Polymer catheters and guidewires for use in intravascular surgery, and more particularly polymer catheters and guidewires micro-machined with a micro-cutting machine to provide sufficient flexibility to travel through a patient's vasculature while retaining sufficient torquability to transmit torque from a proximal end to the distal end of the catheter or guidew...