US Patent Issued to Acclarent on March 24 for "Eustachian tube dilation catheter with depth indicia" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,808, issued on March 24, was assigned to Acclarent Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Eustachian tube dilation catheter with depth indicia" was invented by Fatemeh Akbarian (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) and Jetmir Palushi (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system and method are used to position a guidewire within an anatomical passageway includes the guidewire, a dilator, a reference feature, and a marker. The guidewire has a guidewire body extending to a distal body end portion. The dilator is secured on the distal body end portion and configured to expand from a contracted state to an expanded state. The dilator in the...