ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,581, issued on May 13, was assigned to Front Line Medical Technologies Inc. (London, Canada).
"Devices and method for blood vessel occlusion" was invented by Asha Parekh (London, Canada) and Adam Power (London, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An occlusion assembly and its uses in a REBOA procedure is disclosed. The occlusion assembly includes a single elongate shaft having an inflatable balloon, a proximal neck portion, a distal neck portion. The shaft defines a single lumen through which a wire is positioned for support of the shaft and through which an inflation fluid is also passed to inflate the balloon."
The patent was fi...