US Patent Issued to Surmodics MD on Aug. 18 for "Thrombectomy systems and methods for same" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,389, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Surmodics MD LLC (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Thrombectomy systems and methods for same" was invented by Derek Stratton (Bloomington, Minn.), Lucas DeMars (St. Cloud, Minn.), Joseph Duerr (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Cara Bjerke (Big Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thrombectomy system including a delivery catheter configured to support one or more thrombectomy instruments. The delivery catheter includes a delivery catheter hub and a deliver catheter having a collection shaft with a collection lumen. An aspiration flush valve includes an aspiration port, a flushing port and an outlet port in...