US Patent Issued to CereVasc on June 16 for "Catheter systems and methods for medical procedures using catheters" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,991, issued on June 16, was assigned to CereVasc Inc. (Auburndale, Mass.).

"Catheter systems and methods for medical procedures using catheters" was invented by Adel M. Malek (Weston, Mass.) and Carl Heilman (Wayland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intracranial intervention system comprises a seeker wire and delivery catheter used to navigate and access a target location within the intracranial subarachnoid spaces (ISAS) of a patient. A microcatheter is then advanced through the delivery catheter to perform a therapeutic procedure, such as installing a shunt within the ISAS to drain cerebral-spinal fluid (CSF). The shunt may...