US Patent Issued to Crannmed, Technological University Dublin on March 3 for "Tube having an interior lubricious coating and systems and methods of applying the same" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,701, issued on March 3, was assigned to Crannmed Ltd. (County Galway, Ireland) and Technological University Dublin (Dublin).

"Tube having an interior lubricious coating and systems and methods of applying the same" was invented by Liam Farrissey (County Galway, Ireland), Brendan Duffy (County Kildare, Ireland) and Sankalp Agarwal (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for coating an inner lumen surface of a tube with a coating solution comprises the steps of moving a coating solution through a tube via a withdrawal system and depositing the coating solution onto an inner lumen surface of the tube. The thickness of the coatin...