UNI-CATH SEEKING LICENSEE FOR ITS RAPID EXCHANGE PTCA CATHETER
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
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UNI-CATH SEEKING LICENSEE FOR ITS RAPID EXCHANGE PTCA CATHETER technology, for which the finn received a patent allowance over two months ago, the privately held Miami-based company said. The patent, which the company expects to issue "any day," covers a single lumen design for a rapid exchange percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty catheter. Traditional rapid exchange catheters have two lumina -- one for the guidewire and one to inflate the angioplasty balloon.
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