US Patent Issued to Medtronic Vascular on Nov. 3 for "Vessel modification using cold therapy" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,656, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Medtronic Vascular Inc. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Vessel modification using cold therapy" was invented by Christopher P. Hartman (Rohnert Park, Calif.), Stefan S. Tunev (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Carlos H. Lima (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Richard J. Bliss (Cloverdale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In examples, a cold therapy system includes an intravascular medical device and a therapeutic medical device. The intravascular medical device includes a cold therapy assembly and an elongated member. The cold therapy assembly includes one or more surfaces configured to remove heat from the wall of the ves...