US Patent Issued to Loma Vista Medical on March 24 for "Inflatable medical devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,192, issued on March 24, was assigned to Loma Vista Medical Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Inflatable medical devices" was invented by Alexander Q. Tilson (Burlingame, Calif.), Mark C. Scheeff (San Francisco) and Paul J. Dreyer (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inflatable medical devices and methods for making and using the same are disclosed. The devices can be medical invasive balloons, such as those used for transcutaneous heart valve implantation, such as balloons used for transcatheter aortic-valve implantation. The balloons can have high strength, fiber-reinforced walls."

The patent was filed on Feb. 13, 2023, unde...