ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,390, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Endologix LLC (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Thrombectomy manipulation controller and methods for same" was invented by Jordan Berg (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Peter Bo (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Dan Johnson (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thrombectomy assembly includes a sheath catheter having a sheath lumen and a trumpet catheter including a trumpet lumen. The trumpet catheter is received in the sheath lumen. A manipulation controller is coupled with the trumpet catheter and the sheath catheter. The manipulation controller includes a sheath actuator coupled with the sheath catheter an...