US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC VASCULAR on April 21 for "Tissue removing catheter with tissue-removing element having oblique distal end face" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,183, issued on April 21, was assigned to MEDTRONIC VASCULAR INC. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Tissue removing catheter with tissue-removing element having oblique distal end face" was invented by Aram Jamous (Athenry, Ireland), Alan Ryan (Galway, Ireland) and Aran Murray (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue-removing catheter for removing tissue in a body lumen includes an elongate catheter body. A tissue-removing element is operatively coupled to a distal end portion of the elongate catheter body. The tissue-removing element has a central axis. The tissue-removing element is configured to be rotated about its central a...