ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,523, issued on March 4, was assigned to Emboline Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
"Catheter with integrated embolic protection device" was invented by Scott M. Russell (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Amir Belson (Cupertino, Calif.), Stephen J. Kleshinski (Fremont, Calif.) and Masao Drexel (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve delivery catheter includes an embolic filter to provide integrated embolic protection to inhibit the release of emboli into the aorta, the aortic arch or branch vessels, and other vasculature during transvascular heart valve replacement procedures. The embolic filter will usually be fixedly...