US Patent Issued to Vetex Medical on June 30 for "Thrombectomy device" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,378, issued on June 30, was assigned to Vetex Medical Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Thrombectomy device" was invented by Con O'Brien (Galway, Ireland), Shane Molloy (Galway, Ireland), John Egan (Galway, Ireland) and Mark Bruzzi (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thrombectomy device (1) for removing matter from a body lumen comprising a handle (3), a catheter member (2) extending from the handle (3) having a distal control arm (5) and a proximal control arm (6), a radially expansible member (4) on the distal control arm radially expansible between a contracted position and an expanded, thrombus-capture, position in response ...