ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,929, issued on July 8, was assigned to RAPID MEDICAL LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Systems and methods for intravascular obstruction removal" was invented by Yuri Sudin (Modiin, Israel), Aharon Friedman (Haifa, Israel) and Ronen Eckhouse (Shimshit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Intraluminal devices and methods for removing an obstruction from a blood vessel using an intraluminal device are provided. The intraluminal device can include a flexible shaft and an expandable wire mesh structure extending from the flexible shaft, the wire mesh structure including at least one first expandable section having a first wire arrangement patter...