US Patent Issued to Vetex Medical on Oct. 20 for "Thrombectomy device" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,911, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Vetex Medical Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Thrombectomy device" was invented by Mark Bruzzi (Galway, Ireland), Paul Heneghan (Galway, Ireland), Saeid Kasiri Ghahi (Galway, Ireland) and Gerard O'Sullivan (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thrombectomy device for removing thrombus from a body lumen comprises an elongated catheter member (2) having a distal part and a proximal part, a thrombus blocking body (5) disposed on the distal part of the catheter member and radially expansible between a contracted orientation and an expanded, thrombus-blocking, orientation, a thrombus capture bo...