US Patent Issued to Walk Vascular on April 15 for "Systems and methods for removal of blood and thrombotic material" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,458, issued on April 15, was assigned to Walk Vascular LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for removal of blood and thrombotic material" was invented by Bradley S. Culbert (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Thanh Van Nguyen (Westminster, Calif.) and Caroline Kim (Signal Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extension conduit for use with a system for aspirating thrombus includes a passageway extending between a distal end and a proximal end of the extension conduit, and a combined hydraulic and electrical control carried on the extension conduit and configured to be activated by a user to activate an electric switch while openin...