ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,979, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Imperative Care Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).

"Method of performing a multi catheter robotic neurovascular procedure" was invented by Yi Yang (San Francisco), Craig Mar (Fremont, Calif.), Michael Luna (San Jose, Calif.) and Lilip Lau (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a neurovascular procedure includes providing an assembly including a guidewire having a guidewire hub, an access catheter having an access catheter hub, and a guide catheter having a guide catheter hub. The method includes coupling the guidewire hub to a first hub adapter, coupling the access cathe...