US Patent Issued to AORTICLAB on Nov. 11 for "Transcatheter anti embolic filter for arterial and venous vessels" (Italian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,477, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AORTICLAB SRL (Colleretto Giacosa, Italy).

"Transcatheter anti embolic filter for arterial and venous vessels" was invented by Enrico Pasquino (Savigny, Switzerland), Franco Osta (Mombello Monferrato, Italy), Stefano Osta (Saluggia, Italy), Yi Peng Bai (Milan), Giulia Parigi (Milan) and Francesco Bonetti (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intra-vessel transcatheter filter device (1) designed to capture and remove emboli, thus preventing distal embolization, comprising: * a tubular filter (2) comprising a flexible porous material and defined by a distal element and a proximal elemen...