US Patent Issued to AngioDynamics on June 3 for "Systems and methods for removing undesirable material within a circulatory system" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,097, issued on June 3, was assigned to AngioDynamics Inc. (Latham, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for removing undesirable material within a circulatory system" was invented by Kevin Swift (Brighton, Mass.), Seth Cote (Nashua, N.H.), Mark Girard (Waltham, Mass.), Lishan Aklog (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Michael Glennon (Norwell, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates generally to improved systems and methods for removing undesirable material residing in vessels. More specifically, the present invention relates to systems and methods for using at least one cannula to remove substantially en bloc, from a site of obs...