ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,546, issued on July 21, was assigned to MG Stroke Analytics Inc. (Calgary, Canada).

"Catheter systems enabling improved aspiration from cerebral arteries" was invented by Mayank Goyal (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distal entry point (DEP) to brain aspiration (D2BA) catheter for use in an endovascular procedure for gaining access to cervical and cerebral arteries in a brain of a patient and aspirating one or more intracranial clots from the cerebral arteries, comprising a soft distal tip region having a distal length sufficient to extend from a level 1 or level 2 arterial segment of a cerebral artery or equivalent ...