US Patent Issued to MicroVention on Aug. 5 for "Delivery and detachment systems and methods for vascular implants" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,858, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to MicroVention Inc. (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

"Delivery and detachment systems and methods for vascular implants" was invented by Claudio Plaza (Irvine, Calif.), Scott Hemmelgarn (Lake Forest, Calif.), Eileen Charlton (Garden Grove, Calif.), Todd Hewitt (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Philippe Marchand (Munich), Daniel Welsh (Encinitas, Calif.), William R. Patterson (Irvine, Calif.) and Son Pham (Garden Grove, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for delivering an implant device to a vascular site in a patient a delivery pusher apparatus, an implant device detachably connected to the delivery pushe...