US Patent Issued to VentureMed Group on Oct. 7 for "Intravascular catheter having an expandable incising portion" (Minnesota, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,633, issued on Oct. 7, 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 and configured for controllable movement between a first position where at least a portion of each of a plurality of struts is moved outward so as to extend beyond an outer surface of a sheath and a second position where the struts are compressed. A...