US Patent Issued to Teleflex Life Sciences on June 30 for "Guide extension catheter" (Minnesota, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,696, issued on June 30, was assigned to Teleflex Life Sciences LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Guide extension catheter" was invented by Joshua Brenizer (Oak Grove, Minn.), Dean Peterson (Minneapolis) and Mark Wendle (Albany, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A guide extension catheter can comprise an elongate tube member, a push member, and a concave track. The elongate tube member can define a lumen and three distinct portions of different diameter. A distal portion can define a first diameter, a proximal portion can define a second diameter which is larger than the first diameter but smaller than a lumen of a guide catheter with which ...