ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,384, issued on April 14, was assigned to Bard Peripheral Vascular Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Occlusion devices and methods of use thereof" was invented by Emily A. Goel (Phoenix), Logan J. Grace (Tempe, Ariz.), Jeffrey Wang (Phoenix), Oleg Stanilevskiy (Chandler, Ariz.) and Michaella Kavanagh (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein are directed to an occlusion device that includes a body, a pair of lobes, and an adjustment assembly. One of the pair of lobes positioned at a distal portion of the body and the other one is positioned at a proximal portion. The body includes an adjustment assembly positio...