US Patent Issued to COVIDIEN on July 8 for "Electrically enhanced retrieval of material from vessel lumens" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,917, issued on July 8, was assigned to COVIDIEN LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Electrically enhanced retrieval of material from vessel lumens" was invented by Hoai Nguyen (Westminster, Calif.), Dinh Nguyen (Garden Grove, Calif.) and Gaurav Girdhar (Anaheim Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Retrieval of material from vessel lumens can be improved by electrically enhancing attachment of the material to a medical device. The device can include an elongate core member having a distal portion configured to be intravascularly positioned at a treatment site within a blood vessel lumen, and an interventional element connected to the dista...