US Patent Issued to ABBOTT CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS on July 7 for "Interventional system having cooperative balloon catheter and guidewire" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,194, issued on July 7, was assigned to ABBOTT CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Interventional system having cooperative balloon catheter and guidewire" was invented by Jonathan P. Durcan (Temecula, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interventional system is used to treat a lesion in a target anatomy. The interventional system includes a balloon catheter and a guidewire. The balloon catheter includes a balloon coupled to a catheter shaft. The catheter shaft includes a guidewire lumen having a lumen diameter. The guidewire includes a coil tip coupled to a guidewire shaft at a proximal joint. A coil diameter of t...