US Patent Issued to COVIDIEN on March 31 for "Electrically enhanced retrieval of material from vessel lumens" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,943, issued on March 31, was assigned to COVIDIEN LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Electrically enhanced retrieval of material from vessel lumens" was invented by Daniel Deen (Long Beach, Calif.), Ashok Nageswaran (Irvine, Calif.) and Hoai Nguyen (Westminster, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Retrieval of material from vessel lumens can be improved by electrically enhancing attachment of the material to the thrombectomy system. The system can include a manipulation member configured to be electrically coupled to an extracorporeal power supply and an interventional element configured to be mechanically and electrically coupled to the man...