ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,705, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT HAMBURG (Hamburg, Germany).
"Synthetic thrombus model for learning the surgical removal of a blood clot in the context of a treatment simulation" was invented by Nadine MacMillan (Hamburg, Germany), Dieter Krause (Buchholz, Germany), Jens Fiehler (Hamburg, Germany), Helena Guerreiro (Hamburg, Germany) and Anna Kyselyova (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Synthetic thrombus model for learning the surgical removal of a blood clot from a blood vessel using mechanical thrombectomy in a simulation of various stroke scenarios in a training model, which simulates a l...