US Patent Issued to Urotronic on July 15 for "Drug coated balloon catheters for nonvascular strictures" (Nevada, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,732, issued on July 15, was assigned to Urotronic Inc. (Plymouth, Minn.).

"Drug coated balloon catheters for nonvascular strictures" was invented by Lixiao Wang (Henderson, Nev.) and Peter Barnett (Shakopee, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of treating a stricture in a nonvascular body lumen such as urethral strictures, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) strictures, ureteral strictures, esophageal strictures, sinus strictures, and biliary tract strictures. Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for treating at least one of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), pro...