US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Colorado on March 11 for "Medical devices including textured inflatable balloons" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,743, issued on March 11, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver).

"Medical devices including textured inflatable balloons" was invented by Mark E. Rentschler (Boulder, Colo.), Steven A. Edmundowicz (Centennial, Colo.) and Karl Johannes (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device includes an elongate body and an inflatable balloon attached to and partially surrounding at least a section of the elongate body. The inflatable balloon is selectively inflatable between a deflated state and an inflated state. Engagement between the balloon and a physiological lumen is provided, in part, by mul...