ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,542, issued on June 2, was assigned to Von Vascular Inc. (Weston, Fla.).
"Adaptive pressure-cyclical aspiration device and methods" was invented by Victor Gamez (Miramar, Fla.), Manning J. Hanser (Weston, Fla.) and Alfonso Hermida (Miramar, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspiration system operable for relieving occlusions caused by clots and other lodged bodies in a vessel uses a cyclic algorithm which is adaptable to receipt of any known or developed aspiration catheter to treat acute ischemic occlusions by applied alternating catheter pressure within a defined range. The application of the algorithm is customizable by the sp...