US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC VASCULAR on May 26 for "Tissue-removing cathether with flexible distal tip" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,035, issued on May 26, was assigned to MEDTRONIC VASCULAR INC. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Tissue-removing cathether with flexible distal tip" was invented by Aran Murray (Galway, Ireland) and Eoin J. Walsh (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a tissue-removing catheter for removing tissue in a body lumen including an elongate drive member, tissue-removing element, and a distal tip. The elongate drive member is sized and shaped to be received in the body lumen. The elongate drive member rotates about an axis. The tissue-removing element is operatively coupled to a distal end portion of the elongat...