US Patent Issued to NoviRad on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for percutaneous drainage" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,242, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NoviRad Inc. (Houston).

"Systems and methods for percutaneous drainage" was invented by Elie Rashid Balesh (El Paso, Texas), Matthew Isaac Pena (Houston), Linh Quoc Vu (Manvel, Texas) and Roi Jeric Garcia Bautista (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System for percutaneous drainage of a drainage site includes a catheter, a drain tube, a first pump, a flush tube, a second pump, and a controller. The catheter includes a drain lumen defined by a first portion of a catheter wall and a septum, and a flush lumen defined by a second portion of the catheter wall and the septum. The flush lumen is s...