US Patent Issued to Texas Medical Center on April 29 for "Methods and systems for transcaval treatment of aneurysms" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,576, issued on April 29, was assigned to Texas Medical Center (Houston).

"Methods and systems for transcaval treatment of aneurysms" was invented by Matthew Kuhn (Houston) and Melanie Lowther (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein, in some aspects, are systems and methods for treating aortic aneurysms. In some embodiments, a method of treating an aortic aneurysm in a subject comprises: advancing a shunt through a venous puncture site of a vein to access an arterial puncture site of an artery, the arterial puncture site disposed within the aortic aneurysm or upstream of the aortic aneurysm; and securing the shunt to t...