US Patent Issued to Gyrus ACMI on July 28 for "Balloon catheter syringe for obtaining nominal inflation pressure and deflation vacuum" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,261, issued on July 28, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Balloon catheter syringe for obtaining nominal inflation pressure and deflation vacuum" was invented by Ryan Ponten (Redmond, Wash.) and Jean-Martin Baillargeon (Edmonds, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of methods, systems, and use cases may be used to inflate a balloon catheter using a syringe. The syringe may include a channel portion shaped to create a channel, and a plunger, for example including an inserted end and a free end, which when inserted in the channel to place the inserted end at a plunger starting position, causes a sta...