US Patent Issued to SHOCKWAVE MEDICAL on Sept. 2 for "Systems, devices, and methods for generating shock waves in a forward direction" (California, Minnesota, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,899, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SHOCKWAVE MEDICAL INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems, devices, and methods for generating shock waves in a forward direction" was invented by Thomas Charles Hasenberg (Campbell, Calif.), Rainier Betelia (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Lang (Woodbury, Minn.), Jason B. Franco (Milpitas, Calif.), Robert Zelenka (Milpitas, Calif.), Thu Anh Ho (San Jose, Calif.), Todd Weston Jenkins (San Jose, Calif.) and Andrew James Hudon (Tabernash, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary catheter for use in a body lumen comprises: a catheter body; and a plurality of shock wave emitters disposed at a dist...