ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,784, issued on March 11, was assigned to THROMBOLEX INC. (New Britain, Pa.).
"Basket for a catheter device" was invented by Nicholas Green (Jupiter, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a basket for a catheter designed to be deployed in complex vasculature to optimally treat vascular and arterial disease conditions such as blood clots, blood emboli, and deep vein thrombosis. The basket may comprise a shaft with a plurality of cuts along a portion of its length to form a plurality of tines that provide support for a plurality of porous tubes to form the limbs of the basket. The limbs of the basket exp...