US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on May 12 for "Multi-lumen implantable device" (Pennsylvania, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,015, issued on May 12, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Multi-lumen implantable device" was invented by Bryan W. Tillman (Delaware, Ohio) and Youngjae Chun (Wexford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-lumen implantable device configured to deliver a therapeutic agent to a selected portion of a blood vessel is disclosed. As one example, an implantable device includes a first lumen configured to flow blood from an upstream end to a downstream end of the device when implanted in a blood vessel; a second lumen fluidly separated from the first lumen and configure...