US Patent Issued to Covidien on May 13 for "Devices, systems, and methods for treating aneurysms" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,582, issued on May 13, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for treating aneurysms" was invented by Kevin Nguyen (Westminster, Calif.), Junwei Li (Irvine, Calif.) and Andyanhdzung Huynh (Westminster, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Occlusive devices and associated methods of manufacturing are disclosed herein. Manufacturing an occlusive device can include conforming a mesh to a forming assembly and setting a shape of the mesh based on the forming assembly. In some embodiments, the forming assembly comprises multiple forming members, a mandrel, and/or one or more coupling elements. The m...