US Patent Issued to Vascular Access Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Devices for transvascular retrograde access placement" (West Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,523, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Vascular Access Technologies Inc. (South Jordan, Utah).

"Devices for transvascular retrograde access placement" was invented by Lakshmikumar Pillai (Morgantown, W.va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods of transvascular retrograde access placement and to devices that facilitate these methods. For purposes of the present invention, transvascular retrograde access placement generally comprises the insertion of a vascular catheter into a central blood vessel through the puncturing of the central blood vessel from the inside of the central blood vessel with a nee...