US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on July 7 for "Interventional catheter system and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,188, issued on July 7, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Interventional catheter system and methods" was invented by Tony M. Chou (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Michi E. Garrison (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Gregory M. Hyde (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Richard J. Renati (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Alan K. Schaer (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interventional catheter is adapted for treating a blood vessel. In an embodiment, the catheter includes an elongate shaft sized for insertion in a blood vessel and a stent positioned on a distal region of the elongate shaft. An expandable dilation member is coupled to a...