ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,615, issued on July 22.
"Orientable intracranial occlusion device and method" was invented by Daniel Ezra Walzman (Teaneck, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orientable intravascular device having a "twelve o'clock" marker on a proximal and distal end for treating an aneurysm, including a packaging catheter with an identical fixed non-round shaped inner lumen, a pusher wire having an occlusion device releasably disposed on the distal end of said pusher wire, preloaded at a fixed circumferential orientation, with corresponding markers on the outside of said packaging catheter, a hub having an inner lumen that is shaped to marry w...