ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,854, issued on March 17, was assigned to Vetex Medical Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).
"Thrombectomy devices with control assemblies" was invented by Mark Bruzzi (Galway, Ireland), Saeid Kasiri Ghahi (Galway, Ireland) and Paul Heneghan (Galway, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device suitable for use in a body lumen and comprises an elongated control member having a distal and a proximal end, and a radially expansible member disposed at or near the distal end and adapted for collection and/or shearing of matter (i.e. thrombus) from a wall of the body lumen (i.e. a vein or an artery). The radially expansible member has a proximal end...