ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,931, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Canary Medical Switzerland AG (Baar, Switzerland).

"Occlusion device with sensing functionality" was invented by Mark A. Adler (Carlsbad, Calif.), Jeffrey M. Gross (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Peter J. Schiller (San Marcos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for delivering an implantable sensor assembly into a vascular structure. The sensor assembly is capable of detecting one or more physiological parameters of a patient and generating sensor data. The one or more physiological parameters may be indicative of blood flow through the vascular structure. The sensor assembly may...