ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,596, issued on May 13, was assigned to Creganna UnLtd. Co. (Galway, Ireland).
"Aspiration catheter and clot removal system" was invented by Loganathan Kaliaperumal (Bangalore, India) and Ajay Chavan (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention pertains to medical devices. More specifically, the present application is related to an aspiration catheter for a medical clot removal system and to a clot removal system comprising such an aspiration catheter. An aspiration catheter for a clot removal system has a distal section and a proximal section, wherein, in the distal section, a ratio of an outer diameter (Dd)...