US Patent Issued to Penumbra on June 30 for "Aspiration thrombectomy system and methods for dynamic system state detection" (California, North Dakota, South Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,376, issued on June 30, 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 includes a vacuum source, a catheter having a proximal end and a distal end, a junction fluidically connected to the proximal end of the catheter, a sensor to detect flow through the proximal end of the catheter or the junction and produce a flow signal, a vacuu...