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.

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