US Patent Issued to SUZHOU ZENITH VASCULAR SCITECH on Oct. 21 for "Distal protection device and manufacturing method therefor" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,002, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SUZHOU ZENITH VASCULAR SCITECH Ltd. (Jiangsu, China).

"Distal protection device and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Xiangyu Xu (Suzhou, China), Shuang Li (Suzhou, China), Liyou Guo (Suzhou, China) and Jie Xia (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distal protector includes a delivery guidewire assembly, an umbrella filter assembly and a coating assembly. The delivery guidewire assembly includes a delivery guidewire. The umbrella filter assembly includes an umbrella skeleton, a filter membrane and a fixed ring. The delivery guidewire detachably passes through the umbrella...