US Patent Issued to NEURAVI on July 1 for "Balloon catheter with venting of residual air in a proximal direction" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,486, issued on July 1, was assigned to NEURAVI Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Balloon catheter with venting of residual air in a proximal direction" was invented by Brendan Casey (Galway, Ireland), Karl Keating (Galway, Ireland), Ronald Kelly (Cannistown, Ireland) and Barry O'Connell (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A balloon guide catheter system including a balloon guide catheter having a catheter shaft that includes: (i) a main lumen; (ii) an inflation lumen; and (iii) an exhaust lumen. The terminating distal end of the inflation lumen and the terminating distal end of the exhaust lumen being in localized fluid communicati...