US Patent Issued to Urotronic on April 22 for "Drug-coated balloon catheters for body lumens" (Nevada, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,179, issued on April 22, was assigned to Urotronic Inc. (Plymouth, Minn.).

"Drug-coated balloon catheters for body lumens" was invented by Lixiao Wang (Henderson, Nev.), Peter Barnett (Shakopee, Minn.) and David Hendrickson (Coon Rapids, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments disclosed relate to drug-coated balloon catheters for treating, preventing, or reducing the recurrence of a stricture and/or cancer, or for treating benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), in a non-vascular body lumen and methods of using the same. A drug-coated balloon catheter for delivering a therapeutic agent to a target site of a body lumen str...