ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,467, issued on May 26, was assigned to enableCV LLC (Midvale, Utah).

"Catheter clamping device" was invented by John X. Wang (Orange, Calif.), Bryan A. Janish (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Zoey Cancilla Than (La Habra Heights, Calif.), Thaddeus Lee Young (Chino, Calif.), Kemani Kwame Rodgers (Lockport, N.Y.), Lawrence Luan Tran (Huntington Beach, Calif.) and Ashley Krystin Barks (Foothill Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clamping device for a shaft of a catheter can include a first member rotatably coupled to a second member. The first member can have an annular element defining a central lumen, the outer surface of the an...