Health Care
Spiration to be sold to Olympus
By Seattle Business Magazine June 25, 2010
Shortly after raising $6.5 million in capital, Spiration Inc. announced that it is being sold to Olympus Corporation. Spiration, a Redmond-based company featured in
our June issue, is the inventor and manufacturer of the IBV valve
system, a device used to treat emphysema. Olympus was previously a distributor of Spiration’s IBV valve system in Japan and Europe.