US Patent Issued to Shockwave Medical on Dec. 16 for "Lithotripsy catheters having electrodes formed in metallization layers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,078, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Shockwave Medical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Lithotripsy catheters having electrodes formed in metallization layers" was invented by Thomas Charles Hasenberg (Campbell, Calif.) and Robert Zelenka (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter for treating a stenosis in a body lumen includes an elongate tube; a member sealed to a distal end of the elongate tube that is fillable with a conductive fluid; a metallization layer comprising at least one trace forming at least one inner electrode, the metallization layer being connected to at least one wire; and at least one outer electr...