ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,933, issued on July 29, was assigned to Expanse Technology Partners LLC (Pleasanton, Calif.).
"Aspiration catheter" was invented by Eitan Konstantino (Orinda, Calif.), Matthew Drummond Ritch (Pleasanton, Calif.), Stephanie Morgan Boula (Fremont, Calif.) and Tanhum Feld (Moshav Merhavya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing aspiration thrombectomy. The aspiration catheter assembly can include a support catheter and an aspiration catheter extending through the support catheter. The catheter assembly can include a distal valve apparatus that can control a level of vacuum at a distal end of the cathete...