ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,603, issued on June 10, was assigned to VentureMed Group Inc. (Plymouth, Minn.).
"Intravascular catheter having an expandable incising portion" was invented by John P. Pigott (Sylvania, Ohio), Jenny Zeroni (Plymouth, Minn.) and Adam Tschida (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intravascular catheter device includes an expandable portion secured to a flexible catheter tube. The expandable portion is slidable relative to a sheath to selectively expose a plurality of struts for outward bowing movement and compression within said sheath. An incising element associated with one of the struts is configured to incise athe...