ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,350, issued on July 29, was assigned to Transit Scientific LLC (Salt Lake City).
"Exoskeleton device with expandable section for scoring" was invented by Shawn P. Fojtik (Park City, Utah), Greg Method (Park City, Utah) and Jennifer Arnold (Salt Lake City).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exoskeleton device is capable of being positioned over an expandable instrument, such as a balloon catheter. The exoskeleton device may include an expandable section that receives an expander of the expandable instrument. Expansion of the expander may cause the expandable section of the exoskeleton device to expand force the expandable section of the...