ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,380, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Neuravi Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).
"Mechanical thrombectomy device for capture and removal of occlusions" was invented by Anushree Dwivedi (Galway, Ireland), Sarah Johnson (Galway, Ireland), Mahmood Mirza (Galway, Ireland) and Joshua Khan (Galway, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nested mechanical thrombectomy assembly deliverable as a single assembled unit that includes an outermost mechanical thrombectomy device and at least one inner mechanical thrombectomy device, each mechanical thrombectomy device being actuatable from a radially compressed state to a radially expanded state. While in ...