US Patent Issued to Shockwave Medical on Sept. 30 for "Intravascular lithotripsy catheter with oscillating impactor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,904, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Shockwave Medical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Intravascular lithotripsy catheter with oscillating impactor" was invented by Hoa D. Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.) and Patrick Stephens (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Catheter devices for treating occlusions in body lumen are described herein. The catheter devices may include a tubular body having a distal end, an distal portion elastically connected to the distal end of the tubular body, an impactor connected to the distal portion and separated by a space from the distal end of the tubular body, a distal shock wave emitter locat...