US Patent Issued to Covidien on March 24 for "Catheter including a radiopaque expandable member" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,425, issued on March 24, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Catheter including a radiopaque expandable member" was invented by Eric Mintz (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Ujwal Jalgaonkar (Irvine, Calif.), Syamala Rani Pulugurtha (Irvine, Calif.), Athanasios Touris (Santa Ana, Mass.), Kevin V. Nguyen (Westminster, Calif.), Xiaodong Ma (Acton, Mass.) and Edwin Wang (Tustin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a catheter includes an elongated body and an expandable member at a distal portion of the elongated body and defining at least part of a distal tip of the catheter. The expandable member is formed from mat...