US Patent Issued to Incept on July 8 for "Enhanced flexibility neurovascular catheter" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,443, issued on July 8, was assigned to Incept LLC (Lexington, Mass.).

"Enhanced flexibility neurovascular catheter" was invented by Brandon Yee (Oakland, Calif.), Ashoor Shahbazi Yourgenlow (San Jose, Calif.), Yi Yang (San Francisco), Farhad Khosravi (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Joseph Rimsa (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter is provided comprising localized regions of modified flexibility. The regions of modified flexibility may comprise a softened inner liner, for example softened via stretching the inner liner or disposing a plurality of holes in the inner liner, to modify the bending stiffness and/or ten...