US Patent Issued to TVA Medical on Dec. 23 for "Systems and methods for increasing blood flow" (Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,196, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TVA Medical Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for increasing blood flow" was invented by William E. Cohn (Bellaire, Texas), Thomas D. Pate (Austin, Texas), Philip M. Tetzlaff (Austin, Texas) and David Gunther (Duxbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described here are devices, systems, and methods for improving blood flow in a vessel. Generally, the method may comprise advancing a catheter into a first vessel proximal to an occlusion in the first vessel and forming a fistula between the first vessel and a second vessel. This may deliver blood flow around an occlusion to is...