US Patent Issued to Zylox Tonbridge Medical on Feb. 10 for "Atherectomy catheter drive assemblies" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,940, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Zylox Tonbridge Medical Ltd (Hangzhou, China).

"Atherectomy catheter drive assemblies" was invented by Brian Y. Tachibana (Oakland, Calif.), Charles W. McNall (Cottonwood Heights, Utah), Michael Zung (San Carlos, Calif.), Peter Howard Smith (Pacifica, Calif.), Brian Chiu (San Francisco), Douglas Joseph Scott Bourne (Campbell, Calif.) and Priyanshu Gupta (Hornsby, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive assembly for driving an imaging catheter has a rotatable fiber and a rotatable drive shaft. The drive assembly includes a fiber optic rotating junction and a motor configured to rotate t...