US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC on July 14 for "Methods of preparing balloon expandable catheters for cardiac and vascular interventions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,600, issued on July 14, was assigned to MEDTRONIC INC. (Minneapolis).

"Methods of preparing balloon expandable catheters for cardiac and vascular interventions" was invented by Justin Peterson (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Victoria Ung (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for purging a balloon catheter of air. An inflation fluid is inserted into a balloon and an inflation lumen of a balloon catheter. The inflation lumen is in fluid communication with the balloon. The balloon catheter is positioned in an inverted orientation with a distal end thereof disposed below a proximal end thereof. The distal end of the balloon...