US Patent Issued to NEURAVI on Dec. 23 for "Clot retrieval system for removing occlusive clot from a blood vessel" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,189, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NEURAVI Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Clot retrieval system for removing occlusive clot from a blood vessel" was invented by Brendan Casey (Barna, Ireland), David Vale (Barna, Ireland), Maeve Holian (Galway, Ireland), David Hardiman (Dublin) and Grainne O'Connor (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clot removal device for removing clot from a body vessel comprising an expandable structure and an elongate member. The elongate member can have a proximal end and a distal end, the elongate member being connected to the expandable structure at its distal end. The expandable structure can hav...