ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,943, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Magneto Thrombectomy Solutions LTD (Or Yehuda, Israel).
"Multi-lumen thrombectomy devices" was invented by Yuval Taff (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gal Stern (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Assaf Torjman (Herzliya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus (20) for treating a blockage in a body of a subject includes a tube (22) configured for insertion into the body and shaped to define: a first lumen (24), and a second lumen (26) having a distal opening (28). The apparatus further includes a pair of electrodes configured to apply an electric current to the blockage upon application of a voltage between ...