ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,408, issued on March 3, was assigned to UNIVERSITAT ZURICH (Zurich).
"Medical occluder delivery systems" was invented by Andrea Guidotti (Schwerzenbach, Switzerland), Boaz Harari (Ganey Tikva, Israel), Luca Vicentini (Opfikon, Switzerland) and Pietro Gozzoli (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery system is provided for delivering and deploying an implantable balloon-based occlusion device including an inflatable balloon. The delivery system includes a handle including a plunger slidingly disposed in a fluid-retaining chamber, and a proximal rotatable user-control knob. A fluid-conveyance lumen catheter is shaped so as to d...