US Patent Issued to Inari Medical on May 27 for "Intravascular treatment of vascular occlusion and associated devices, systems, and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,608, issued on May 27, was assigned to Inari Medical Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Intravascular treatment of vascular occlusion and associated devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Phil Marchand (Lake Forest, Calif.), John C. Thress (Capistrano Beach, Calif.), Jacob F. Louw (Carlsbad, Calif.), Brian J. Cox (Laguna Nigel, Calif.) and Richard Quick (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for removal of thrombus from a blood vessel in a body of a patient are disclosed herein. The method can include: providing a thrombus extraction device including a proximal self-expanding member formed of a unitary...