US Patent Issued to DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS on Aug. 5 for "Intravascular devices with radiopaque body markers" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,938, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS INC. (Raynham, Mass.).

"Intravascular devices with radiopaque body markers" was invented by Juan Lorenzo (Davie, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intravascular treatment device is presented having an expandable frame made up of circular struts, straight struts, and bent struts forming a frame with circumference that varies over the length of the frame. Radiopaque markers can be positioned on the bent struts to indicate outer circumferences of the frame along the length of the frame. The device can be a stent or a clot retriever. If the device is a clot retriever, the ...