US Patent Issued to Accumed Radial Systems on Nov. 3 for "System, apparatus, and method for creating a lumen" (Michigan, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,592, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Accumed Radial Systems LLC (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

"System, apparatus, and method for creating a lumen" was invented by Joseph R. Korotko (Livonia, Mich.), Raj Riswadkar (Clayton, Mo.) and William W. O'Neill (Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system for creating a lumen according to the present disclosure includes, among other possible things a balloon wound in a generally helical shape having an inner surface and an outer surface, and a support attached to at least one of the inner surface and the outer surface of the generally helical shape and constraining...