ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,458, issued on April 14, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Vascular device marker attachment" was invented by Evan Epstein (Los Angeles) and Kenneth Brown (Oceanside, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device can include an elongate manipulation member, and a thrombectomy device connected to the elongate manipulation member. The thrombectomy device can have a first configuration and a second configuration, the thrombectomy device being expandable from the first configuration to the second configuration. The thrombectomy device can include an arcuate marker-mounting projection attached to a portion of the ...