Patent ID: 11896508
Assignee: TRANSIT SCIENTIFIC, LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 13:
14. A method for delivering a medicament to a treatment site within a body of a subject, comprising: advancing an exoskeleton device over a balloon catheter until an expandable section of the exoskeleton device is located over a balloon of the balloon catheter, with the medicament located on interior surfaces of struts of the expandable section and with the struts in closed orientations that contain the medicament within an interior of the expandable section; expanding the balloon to expand the expandable section of the exoskeleton device in a manner that causes struts of the expandable section to move to open orientations and rotate about their longitudinal axes to score a surface at the treatment site and expose the medicament on the interior surfaces of the struts to the treatment site; and transferring the medicament from the interior surfaces of the struts of the expandable section to score marks in the surface at the treatment site.