US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC VASCULAR on Sept. 1 for "Catheter assembly including extruded polymer material for stiffness" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,978, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MEDTRONIC VASCULAR INC. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Catheter assembly including extruded polymer material for stiffness" was invented by David Hobbins (Galway, Ireland) and Risa Egerter (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a catheter that includes a catheter tube defining the guidewire lumen with the catheter tube including an extruded polymer material. Molecules of the extruded polymer material extend circumferentially around the catheter tube to stiffen the catheter tube for strengthening the catheter tube against radial compression forces."

The patent w...