US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on June 16 for "Optoelectrical connector for intravascular lithotripsy device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,608, issued on June 16, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Optoelectrical connector for intravascular lithotripsy device" was invented by Eric Schultheis (San Clemente, Calif.), Alvin Salinas (San Marcos, Calif.) and Peter Dahl (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter system (100) for treating a treatment site (106) includes a catheter (102), a system console (123) that includes a console connection aperture (148), an energy source (124), one or more energy guides (122A) that receive energy from the energy source (124), and an optoelectrical connector (151) that is coupled to the c...