US Patent Issued to SHOCKWAVE MEDICAL on Oct. 28 for "Shock wave catheters and methods of use thereof for treating, imaging, and characterizing body lumens" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,565, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SHOCKWAVE MEDICAL INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Shock wave catheters and methods of use thereof for treating, imaging, and characterizing body lumens" was invented by Hyung Joo Kim (Santa Clara, Calif.), Thomas Charles Hasenberg (Campbell, Calif.) and Leela Goel (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Shock wave catheters and methods of use thereof are disclosed herein for intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) and intravascular imaging of a body lumen. The shock wave catheter can include an elongate tube; at least one shock wave emitter disposed at a distal portion of the elongate tube and...