US Patent Issued to Acclarent on Oct. 27 for "Balloon dilation instrument with translating guide tip element" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,542, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Acclarent Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Balloon dilation instrument with translating guide tip element" was invented by Brittanie Chu (Chino Hills, Calif.), Henry F. Salazar (Pico Rivera, Calif.), Alex Gonzalez (Lake Forest, Calif.), Cesar Fuentes-Ortega (Pasadena, Calif.), Sheila Ruiz (Mission Viejo, Calif.), George Gusein (Acre, Israel), Hao H. Tran (Santa Ana, Calif.) and Zachary Radner (Anaheim, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dilation catheter is slidably disposed relative to a first guide. A second guide is slidably disposed relative to the first guide and relative to the dilation cathe...