ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,741, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers Endovascular Robotics Inc. (Newton, Mass.).
"Systems and methods for thrombus aspiration" was invented by Steven J. Blacker (Framingham, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include positioning of a catheter lumen in a first position with respect to a thrombus, the catheter lumen defined by a catheter, initiating of evacuation of a tubing lumen, where the tubing lumen is not in fluid communication with the catheter lumen, determination that a pressure within the tubing lumen is equal to or less than a target aspiration pressure, and, in response to the d...