ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,479, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NEURAVI Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).
"Aspiration control valve" was invented by Brendan Casey (Galway, Ireland), David Vale (Barna, Ireland) and Michael Gilvarry (Headford, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspiration control device can have an aspiration control valve and a switch, button, slider, trigger, grip, lever, rotating wheel, rotating valve, handle or other interface for resizing the aspiration control valve. The aspiration control interface can be conveniently positioned and configured to be manipulated while simultaneously stabilizing a catheter and/or retracting an elongated mem...