US Patent Issued to Penumbra on Feb. 25 for "Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for dynamic system state detection" (California, North Dakota, South Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,751, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Penumbra Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for dynamic system state detection" was invented by Cheng Yong Timothy Thio (Davis, Calif.), Lincoln Herbert Davidson (Fargo, N.D.), Scott Teigen (West Fargo, N.D.) and Corey Teigen (Rosholt, S.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspiration thrombectomy system for use with a vacuum source and an aspiration catheter includes an aspiration catheter, connection tubing configured to act as a common conduit for fluid communication between the aspiration catheter and a vacuum source, controllable valves operable to selectiv...