US Patent Issued to SHOCKWAVE MEDICAL on Dec. 23 for "Systems, devices, and methods for shock wave generation utilizing catheters with multi-metal joints" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,188, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SHOCKWAVE MEDICAL INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems, devices, and methods for shock wave generation utilizing catheters with multi-metal joints" was invented by David Moosavi (Castro Valley, Calif.), Todd Weston Jenkins (San Jose, Calif.), Lawrence John Formosa (Campbell, Calif.), Danielle Sheree Rond (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rainier Betelia (San Jose, Calif.), Hoa D. Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.), Jason B. Franco (Milpitas, Calif.) and Thomas Charles Hasenberg (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary catheter includes a catheter body, a first conductive member comprising a fi...