US Patent Issued to MICROVENTION on June 3 for "Filamentary devices for treatment of vascular defects" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,091, issued on June 3, was assigned to MICROVENTION INC. (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

"Filamentary devices for treatment of vascular defects" was invented by Todd J. Hewitt (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Brian E. Merritt (San Clemente, Calif.) and William R. Patterson (Huntington Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for treatment of a patient's vasculature may include a resilient self-expanding permeable implant having a plurality of elongate filaments secured in a hub at a proximal end of the permeable implant. Each of the plurality of elongate filaments may have a diameter between about 0.0005 and about 0.005 inches....