ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,383, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Neuravi Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Self-expanding intravascular medical device" was invented by Brendan Casey (Galway, Ireland), Aidan Duffy (Galway, Ireland), Thomas O'Malley (Westport, Ireland) and David Vale (Barna, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-expanding intravascular medical device including a multi-component assembly with a self-expanding outer cage component comprising a plurality of struts; and a single cell wave-shape component disposed within the self-expanding outer cage component forming a channel therein. The proximal end of the single cell wave-shape component is con...