ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,342, issued on April 21, was assigned to Tonic Medical Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).
"Polymer-encapsulated drug particles" was invented by Lixiao Wang (Henderson, Nev.) and Peter Barnett (Shakopee, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments disclosed relate to polymer-encapsulated drug particles and a drug-releasing coating including the same, as well as drug-coated balloon catheters for treating, preventing, or reducing the recurrence of strictures in body lumens and methods of using the same. A drug-coated balloon catheter for delivering a therapeutic agent to a target site of a body lumen stricture includes an elonga...