ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,586, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NEURAVI Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).
"Catheter tubular support" was invented by Karl Keating (Galway, Ireland), Ronald Kelly (Galway, Ireland) and David Vale (Galway, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clot retrieval catheter can have a tailored, highly flexible body section capable of navigating tortuous routes and an expandable tip for local flow restriction/arrest. The body can be a support tube of struts with a plurality of ribs and one or more axial spines. The support tube can also be a tubular section with a pattern of radial slots to increase flexibility while inhibiting kinking and bi...