US Patent Issued to Contego Medical on Oct. 20 for "Transluminal angioplasty devices and methods of use" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,018, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Contego Medical Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Transluminal angioplasty devices and methods of use" was invented by Ravish Sachar (Raleigh, N.C.), Eugene Serina (Raleigh, N.C.) and Udayan Patel (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A percutaneous transluminal angioplasty device includes a catheter defining one or more lumens. A filter is coupled to the catheter adjacent a distal end of the catheter, and the filter is movable between an unexpanded and expanded configuration via a filter activation wire that extends through a lumen. An expandable balloon is coupled to the catheter proximally o...