ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,140, issued on May 26, was assigned to Lifetech Scientific (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Embolic protection device" was invented by Jianyong Liu (Shenzhen, China), Anning Li (Shenzhen, China), Yang Ge (Shenzhen, China), Wancheng Zhu (Shenzhen, China) and Lin Tang (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embolic protection device includes a frame, an edge filter screen, and a plurality of supporting rods that are arranged at intervals. Each supporting rod includes a first tail end, a second tail end, and at least one head end that faces a distal end. The first tail end and the second tail end are separately connecte...