US Patent Issued to Penumbra on Dec. 2 for "Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for dynamic system state detection" (California, North Dakota, South Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,919, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Penumbra Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for dynamic system state detection" was invented by Cheng Yong Timothy Thio (Davis, Calif.), Lincoln Herbert Davidson (Fargo, N.D.), Scott Teigen (West Fargo, N.D.) and Corey Teigen (Rosholt, S.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspiration thrombectomy system for use with an aspiration catheter, connection tubing to place a vacuum source and the aspiration catheter in fluid communication, controllable valves to control a level of negative pressure provided by the vacuum source, ultrasonic sensors to detect ultrasonic e...