US Patent Issued to Silk Road Medical on April 29 for "Methods and devices for transcarotid access" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,578, issued on April 29, was assigned to Silk Road Medical Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Methods and devices for transcarotid access" was invented by Stewart M. Kume (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Michi E. Garrison (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Michael P. Wallace (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Herbert Mendoza (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Marlon Moreno (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an arterial access sheath for introducing an interventional device into an artery. The arterial access sheath includes an elongated body sized and shaped to be transcervically introduced into a common carotid artery at an access location in the neck and an inter...