ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,546, issued on June 2, was assigned to Julier Medical SAS (Paris).
"Catheter system with highly flexible distal portion for distal access and/or clot removal" was invented by Niall Behan (Dubendorf, Switzerland) and Marcus Wenzel (Grossenhain, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved catheter is provided for accessing a site in a patient's vasculature, delivery a device or instrument to the site, removing an obstruction(s) from a blood vessel, and/or for retrieving a clot/thrombus in the neurovasculature for the treatment of stroke. The catheter has a collapsed state sufficiently small and flexible for easier delivery throug...