US Patent Issued to Emboline on June 16 for "Methods and systems for placing embolic filters in an aortic arch" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,659, issued on June 16, was assigned to Emboline Inc. (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for placing embolic filters in an aortic arch" was invented by Stephen J. Kleshinski (Fremont, Calif.), Scott M. Russell (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Masao Drexel (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Amir Belson (Savyon, Israel), Eric Storne (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Matthew Davis (Auburn, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embolic filter positioning system includes a vascular delivery sheath, a filter catheter, a self-expanding embolic filter attached to a distal end of the filter catheter, and an elongate dilator having a tapered dilator tip. The elonga...