US Patent Issued to CereVasc on Sept. 15 for "Methods and systems for draining cerebrospinal fluid into the venous system" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,344, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CereVasc Inc. (Charlestown, Mass.).

"Methods and systems for draining cerebrospinal fluid into the venous system" was invented by Carl Heilman (Wayland, Mass.), Adel M. Malek (Weston, Mass.), David A. Rezac (Westborough, Mass.), Timothy W. Robinson (Sandown, N.H.) and Joseph Ting (Auburndale, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for treating hydrocephalus using a shunt, the shunt having one or more CSF intake openings in a distal portion, a valve disposed in a proximal portion of the shunt, and a lumen extending between the one or more CSF intake openings and the valve, the method com...