ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,693, issued on June 30, was assigned to TriSalus Life Sciences Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).
"Therapeutic treatment device with braided microvalve occluder" was invented by Michael Brick Markham (Boulder, Colo.), Erik Dean Olson (Castle Rock, Colo.) and David Benjamin Jaroch (Arvada, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vascular treatment device for use in a vessel includes a catheter and a microvalve occluder. The occluder includes braided elastic strands, each with a proximal portion, a central portion, and a distal portion, that are fixed to the outer surface of the catheter. The elastic strands. In an embodiment, the distal portio...