ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,844, issued on April 15, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Thrombus removal device" was invented by Alan M. Twomey (Minneapolis), Shawn Phillips (Belle Plaine, Minn.), Wanda F. Dent (Chanhassen, Minn.), Nathan K. Weidenhamer (Minneapolis), Brandon Phan (Minneapolis), Noah Johnson (Lancaster, Calif.), Ryan R. Davis (Plymouth, Minn.) and Daniel M. Gelfman (Golden Valley, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a catheter assembly includes a delivery catheter defining a delivery catheter lumen, a delivery catheter handle connected to the delivery catheter, a retrieval catheter defining a retrieval catheter l...