US Patent Issued to C. R. Bard on Feb. 24 for "Retrievable endovascular implant for fistula creation and maturation" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,471, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to C. R. Bard Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Retrievable endovascular implant for fistula creation and maturation" was invented by Alexander W. Tessmer (Phoenix) and Andrzej J. Chanduszko (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endovascular implant for forming a fistula includes a body including a wall forming a lumen having a distal opening and a proximal opening. An anchor is coupled to a distal end of the body adjacent the distal opening. The anchor may include a first anchor extending from a first side of a distal end of the body, and a second, separate anchor may extending from a se...