ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,239, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Nu-Life Consulting Pte Ltd (Singapore).
"Flexible tubular spring structure, and scoring balloon catheter equipped therewith" was invented by John E. Schulze (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resiliently expandable elongate tubular spring structure, e.g., corresponding to a metal mesh type structure, mountable or mounted to a scoring balloon catheter includes multiple ring structures that are longitudinally separated from each other along portions of a balloon working region, and which are resiliently radially expandable in response to outwardly directed balloon expansion forces. Pairw...