US Patent Issued to MicroVention on Jan. 20 for "Embolic containment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,577, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MicroVention Inc. (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

"Embolic containment" was invented by George R. Greene Jr. (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Ivan Sepetka (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Cathy Lei (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Alejandro Berenstein (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Monika Killer-Oberpfalzer (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Heath Bowman (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods used to seal a treatment area to prevent embolic agents from migrating are described. The concept has particular benefit in allowing liquid embolic to be used with a variety of intravascular therapeutic applications, i...