US Patent Issued to TVA Medical on April 14 for "Catheter systems with biasing rails and methods for forming fistulas" (Arizona, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,434, issued on April 14, was assigned to TVA Medical Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Catheter systems with biasing rails and methods for forming fistulas" was invented by Oladipo Peter Akerele-Ale (Phoenix), Andrew Moll (Portland, Ore.), Alex Palmer (Gilbert, Ariz.), Breanna Simpson (Austin, Texas) and Olivia Ruth Palmer (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for forming a fistula, including a catheter including a catheter body, an electrode, one or more arrays of magnets, and a plurality of biasing rails. The one or more arrays of magnets are arranged longitudinally along the catheter body. The plurality of biasing...