US Patent Issued to COVIDIEN on March 25 for "Devices, systems, and methods for treatment of intracranial aneurysms" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,936, issued on March 25, was assigned to COVIDIEN LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for treatment of intracranial aneurysms" was invented by Junwei Li (Irvine, Calif.), John Wainwright (Foothill Ranch, Calif.), Gaurav Girdhar (Anaheim Hills, Calif.) and Stephen Sosnowski (Sherrills Ford, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for treating an aneurysm in accordance with embodiments of the present technology include intravascularly delivering an occlusive member to an aneurysm cavity and deforming a shape of the occlusive member via introduction of an embolic element to a space between the occlusiv...