ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,842, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Embolx Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Catheters adapted for agent delivery" was invented by Thomas Roewer (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Michael P. Allen (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Medical delivery devices, such as catheters, and methods of use and manufacture of the medical delivery devices. The medical delivery devices are adapted to facilitate delivery of an agent into a patient. The medical delivery devices may have one or more deformable lumens, each lumen of the one or more deformable lumens has a collapsed configuration and an open configuration. The medical delivery devices ...