ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,076, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Penumbra Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Computer-aided vacuum thrombectomy systems and methods for processing and visualizing thrombectomy procedure analytics" was invented by Nicole Trosper (Fairfax, Calif.) and Stephen Pons (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platform of computing systems is configured to receive thrombectomy procedure data that is associated with a user of an aspiration thrombectomy system. The procedure data includes sets of temporal datapoints associated with a thrombectomy procedure. The platform of computing systems is further configured to generate thrombectomy ...