ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,250, issued on March 17.
"Apertured multilayer balloon catheter system" was invented by A-Hamid Hakki (Dunedin, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apertured balloon catheter consisting of 3 segments: a proximal segment, a central segment and a distal segment. The proximal and distal segments have two layers, and the central segment has three layers. Each layer of the proximal, distal segment, and first two layers of the central segment are tethered at several points forming a space therebetween, which is selectively filled with a fluid by a conduit to expand the apertured balloon catheter. The third layer of the central segment ...