US Patent Issued to COVIDIEN on Nov. 4 for "Occlusive devices with spiral struts for treating vascular defects" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,361, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to COVIDIEN LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Occlusive devices with spiral struts for treating vascular defects" was invented by Bala Subramanya Pavan Kumar Kandala (Irvine, Calif.), Mark P. Ashby (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Harkamaljot S. Kandail (Irvine, Calif.) and Sydney L. Ngo (Riverside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices for treating vascular defects and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an occlusive device for treating an aneurysm includes an anchor structure extending circumferentially around an opening. A plurality of spiral struts are coupled to the ...