US Patent Issued to Otsuka Medical Devices on May 26 for "Tissue treatment catheter having supportive isolation tube" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,470, issued on May 26, was assigned to Otsuka Medical Devices Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Tissue treatment catheter having supportive isolation tube" was invented by James D. Mazzone (San Jose, Calif.), Eric Dailey (San Jose, Calif.) and Desmond Cheung (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue treatment catheter includes a catheter shaft having a fluid lumen in fluid communication with an interior of a balloon, and a guidewire lumen. The balloon is mounted on the catheter shaft and contains an ultrasound transducer. An isolation tube extends through the ultrasound transducer and into the guidewire lumen. A proximal tube end of ...