US Patent Issued to Invertes on Sept. 16 for "System and method for blocking a luminal body" (Virginia, Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,773, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Invertes Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).

"System and method for blocking a luminal body" was invented by Charles H. Vanderpool (Central Point, Ore.), Scott Tarvyd MacDonald (Torrance, Calif.) and Aiguo Wu (Woodbridge, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system for blocking a luminal body at a selected location has a tubular body that extends from a proximal end to a distal end, and a blocking device on the distal end of the tubular body. The blocking device has a guide cap and a gripping feature, and at least one annular inflatable portion positioned around an outer circumference of the gr...