US Patent Issued to The Foundry on April 22 for "Vascular treatment devices and associated systems and methods of use" (Connecticut, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,227, issued on April 22, was assigned to The Foundry LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Vascular treatment devices and associated systems and methods of use" was invented by Hanson S. Gifford III (Woodside, Calif.), Edward DeWitt Gifford (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Vrad W. Levering (Smithville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for treating a blood flow passage are discloses herein. In one example, a treatment device includes an expandable element configured to be positioned within the passage and a reinforcing element. The expandable element may have an expanded configuration in which the expandable element defi...