US Patent Issued to Neuravi on Feb. 3 for "Devices and methods for removal of acute blockages from blood vessels" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,129, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Neuravi Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Devices and methods for removal of acute blockages from blood vessels" was invented by David Vale (Barna, Ireland), Brendan Casey (Galway, Ireland), Micheal Gilvarry (Headford, Ireland), Kevin McArdle (Loughrea, Ireland), Maeve Holian (Galway, Ireland), David Hardiman (Dublin), Alan Keane (Dublin) and Daniel King (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for assisting in the retrieval of a clot from a vessel. The system can include an outer catheter and an inner catheter disposed in a lumen of the outer catheter. The inner catheter can include a dis...