US Patent Issued to STRYKER on March 31 for "Inverting capture apparatuses having material depots" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,918, issued on March 31, was assigned to STRYKER Corp. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Inverting capture apparatuses having material depots" was invented by Michael P. Wallace (Fremont, Calif.), E. Skott Greenhalgh (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Jayson Delos Santos (Alamo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inverting tube apparatuses and methods of using same for removing large amounts of material from a body lumen. The apparatuses and methods described herein may use a depot for holding, in a compressed configuration, a length of the flexible tube configured to invert over the distal end of an inversion support catheter to capture material within...