ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,417, issued on July 8, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Medical aspiration" was invented by Ujwal Jalgaonkar (Irvine, Calif.), Gaurav Girdhar (Ladera Ranch, Calif.), Kamel M. Chair (Hayward, Calif.), Peter Skujins (Menifee, Calif.), David P. Marchesiello (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Emma Hurst (Torrance, Calif.) and Brad Jackson (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a medical aspiration system is configured to control medical aspiration based on a cardiac cycle of a patient. For example, a medical aspiration system can include a suction source configured to apply a suction force to a catheter to remov...