ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,475, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to KARDIUM INC. (Burnaby, Canada).
"Catheter system" was invented by Saar Moisa (Vancouver, Canada) and Marius J. Postma (Coquitlam, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manipulable portion of a catheter system advances out of a lumen of a catheter sheath at a distal end of a shaft, which is also within the lumen of the catheter sheath. The catheter system causes different advancement and retraction trajectories of a manipulable portion out of and into the lumen based at least upon different relative movements between the catheter sheath and the shaft. A projection and a corresponding receiver ...