ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,600, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Argon Medical Devices Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Embolization catheter for reflux free delivery of microspheres" was invented by Tom Dagan (Omer, Israel), Nir Holtzman (Rishon Lezion, Israel), Yuval Zipory (Modiin, Israel), Osnat Harbater (Raanana, Israel) and Eran Miller (Moshav Beit Elazari, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embolization microcatheter for delivery of embolization beads to a target area, the embolization microcatheter including a proximal end and a distal end, the distal end terminating in an end opening sized and shaped to allow delivery of a suspension of the embolization be...