ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,092, issued on April 7, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Fly by wire control for atherectomy" was invented by Daniel Frank Massimini (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Michael Kaland (Minneapolis), Corydon Carlson (Stillwater, Minn.) and Jarrod Kenneth Neuharth (Minneapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An atherectomy system includes a user interface that an operator engages with in order to indicate requested movement of a drive assembly. One or more sensors are adapted to ascertain one or more conditions of the drive assembly and to output one or more condition signals to a controller that is operably coup...