US Patent Issued to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai on Feb. 10 for "Detachable-tip balloon microcatheter for embolization of vascular pathology" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,077, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York).

"Detachable-tip balloon microcatheter for embolization of vascular pathology" was invented by Peter Backeris (New York), Kurt Yaeger (New York), Anthony Costa (New York), Thomas Oxley (New York), Alejandro Berenstein (New York), Young Joon Kwon (New York) and Joe Borrello (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detachable tip sheathed balloon microcatheter is provided for delivering an embolic agent to a target location for the embolization of an arteriovenous malformation (AVM). The detachable tip sheathed balloon microcatheter including a...