US Patent Issued to The Texas A&M University System on June 10 for "Heated endovascular catheter injection device" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,588, issued on June 10, was assigned to The Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas).

"Heated endovascular catheter injection device" was invented by Duncan J. Maitland (College Station, Texas), Mark A. Wierzbicki (College Station, Texas), Landon D. Nash (College Station, Texas) and Wonjun Hwang (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes a system comprising: a catheter; an optic fiber having a long axis and a short axis that is orthogonal to the long axis; first and second radiopaque elements coupled to the optic fiber; a first wire coupled to the optic fiber and extending from the first...