US Patent Issued to Vivonics on March 31 for "Transcatheter device and minimally invasive method for constricting and adjusting blood flow through a blood vessel" (Massachusetts, Colorado, Tennessee, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,909, issued on March 31, was assigned to Vivonics Inc. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Transcatheter device and minimally invasive method for constricting and adjusting blood flow through a blood vessel" was invented by James H. Goldie (Lexington, Mass.), Brendan LaBrecque (Middleton, Mass.), Anna M Galea (Stow, Mass.), Eric Klem (Lexington, Mass.), Thomas Doyle (Brentwood, Tenn.), Ian Cohen (Broomfield, Colo.), Tim Robinson (Sandown, N.H.), Dana Janssen (Brentwood, Tenn.) and George Nicholson (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pulmonary artery flow restrictor system includes a funnel shaped membrane with a proximal base, a restr...