ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,076, issued on April 1, was assigned to Emboline Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
"Multi-access intraprocedural embolic protection device" was invented by Stephen J. Kleshinski (Fremont, Calif.), Scott M. Russell (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Amir Belson (Savyon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embolic protection device comprises a tubular filter body attached to a sheath. The tubular filter body has an open upstream end and a generally closed downstream end for capturing emboli. A self-opening passage through the emboli capture end of the tubular filter body allows multiple catheters to be advanced from the sheath or otherwise into th...