ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,330, issued on July 15, was assigned to INNOVA VASCULAR INC. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Device for removing an embolus" was invented by Sanjay Shrivastava (Irvine, Calif.) and Jianlu Ma (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clot retrieval device is provided. The clot retrieval device includes a capturing basket having an opening at a proximal end where the capturing basket is deployable downstream from a clot in a blood vessel. The capturing basket is configured to surround a portion of the clot and the opening in the proximal end of the capturing basket is configured to reduce in size such that the capturing basket conforms aroun...