ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,492, issued on July 22, was assigned to ANACONDA BIOMED S.L. (Sant Quirze del Valles, Spain).
"Thrombectomy system and method of use" was invented by Francois Salmon (Le Celle Saint Cloud, France) and Ofir Arad Hadar (Sant Cugat, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of extracting a thrombus from a thrombus site in a cerebral artery of a patient by advancing a first catheter into an internal carotid artery of the patient; advancing a funnel catheter within the first catheter; moving the funnel catheter and the first catheter with respect to each other to place the funnel outside of the first catheter; expanding the funnel int...