US Patent Issued to Penumbra on Jan. 27 for "Apparatus and methods for controlled clot aspiration" (California, North Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,147, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Penumbra Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods for controlled clot aspiration" was invented by Scott Teigen (West Fargo, N.D.), Steven Loisel (Castro Valley, Calif.), Stephen Pons (Alameda, Calif.) and Ben Tompkins (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic aspiration system includes a vacuum source, an aspiration catheter, a connecting tube, controllable valves to control a level of pressure in the aspiration catheter or the connecting tube, pressure sensors to detect pressure readings, and a controller capable of utilizing an artificial neural network (ANN) trained to...