ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,526, issued on April 21, was assigned to Deepin Technologies LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Intravascular medical devices including laser cut tube" was invented by Jon Schabert (San Jose, Calif.), Jiaxu Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Alex Kubacki (San Jose, Calif.) and Alan Thomas (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intravascular device includes a tube member. The tube member comprises a distal portion and a proximal portion. Each of the distal portion and the proximal portion of the tube member comprises a plurality of cuts circumferentially extending around a longitudinal axis of the tube member. The plurality of cuts of the dist...