US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on May 6 for "Percutaneous catheter directed intravascular occlusion devices" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,251, issued on May 6, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Percutaneous catheter directed intravascular occlusion devices" was invented by Kurt Amplatz (North Oaks, Minn.), Xiaoping Gu (Maplewood, Minn.) and John C. Oslund (Blaine, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an improved vascular occlusion device having improved flexibility and retention of the type fabricated from braided tubular metal fabric having an expanded preset configuration and an elongated collapsed reduced diameter configuration for delivery through a catheter to a treatment site and shaped to...