US Patent Issued to Sanford Health on Aug. 4 for "Balloon catheter" (Missouri, New Jersey, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,471, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Sanford Health (Sioux Falls, S.D.).

"Balloon catheter" was invented by Bruce A. Gardner (Rochester, Minn.), Jeffery A. Gardner (St. Clair, Mo.) and David Allan Swanson (Palmyra, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A balloon catheter having an elongated catheter shaft defining a fluid drainage lumen and a balloon inflation lumen. The balloon catheter includes a fluid drainage port disposed about the distal end of the catheter shaft in fluid communication with the fluid drainage lumen, and a balloon inflation port disposed about the distal end of the catheter shaft in fluid communication with the b...