US Patent Issued to Covidien on Oct. 6 for "Systems and methods for restoring blood vessel patency" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,730, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for restoring blood vessel patency" was invented by Onnik E. Tchulluian (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Ramesh V. Marrey (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single treatment system for vascular defects can be configured for use in removing clot material via mechanical thrombectomy and/or for deployment of an expandable device at a lesion to treat intracranial atherosclerotic disease (ICAD). Such a treatment system can include a delivery catheter carrying an expandable member configured to be deployed for treatment of ICAD, such as ...