ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,326, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. (Newark, Del.).
"Retrieval catheter" was invented by Juan C. Parodi (Pinecrest, Fla.), John Cheer (Manasquan, N.J.), Edward H. Cully (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Michael J. Vonesh (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Jeremy P. Young (Flagstaff, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retrieval catheter operable by a single clinician that will neither displace a deployed stent nor cause undue trauma to the vascular lumen or lesion. The retrieval catheter may be sized to accommodate both a guidewire and a balloon wire. The retrieval catheter is easy to navigate through tortuous passageways a...