ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,885, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to UNIVERSITAT ZURICH (Zurich).
"Medical occlusion device" was invented by Francesco Maisano (Kusnacht, Switzerland), Andrea Guidotti (Zollikon, Switzerland), Idan Tobis (Beth Hashmonai, Israel) and David Zarbatany (Laguna Niguel, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An occlusion device (20) includes a compliant balloon (5) including an inflation port (3) for filling and unfilling a fluid into and from a balloon chamber (26). A distal tip element (10) and a proximal base element (4) are disposed at distal and proximal sides (28B, 28A) of the balloon (5), respectively. An elongate actuating elemen...