US Patent Issued to Transmural Systems on Oct. 28 for "Access catheter" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,580, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Transmural Systems LLC (Andover, Mass.).

"Access catheter" was invented by Nasser Rafiee (Andover, Mass.), Stuart Macdonald (Andover, Mass.) and Koosha Rafiee (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to novel and advantageous systems and methods for deploying a surgical tool or guidewire. Particularly, the present disclosure relates to novel and advantageous systems and methods for deploying a surgical tool for use in changing the shape of portions of luminal systems. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to novel and advantageous systems and met...