US Patent Issued to CereVasc on June 3 for "Catheter systems and methods for medical procedures using catheters" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,564, issued on June 3, was assigned to CereVasc LLC (Charlestown, Mass.).

"Catheter systems and methods for medical procedures using catheters" was invented by Adel M. Malek (Weston, Mass.), Carl Heilman (Wayland, Mass.), David A. Rezac (Westborough, Mass.), Jack Sattell (Boston) and Alexander Bonin (Bellingham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, catheter devices can include: a reinforcing member having a proximal and distal ends, the reinforcing member comprising: discrete longitudinally arranged structural regions between the proximal and distal ends comprising: a first, proximal, structural region defining a firs...