US Patent Issued to ABIOMED on July 15 for "Expandable sheath with interlock dilator" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,801, issued on July 15, was assigned to ABIOMED INC. (Danvers, Mass.).

"Expandable sheath with interlock dilator" was invented by Christopher Nason Korkuch (Danvers, Mass.), Robert Fishman (Danvers, Mass.), Michael Thomas Finnegan (Danvers, Mass.), Charles DeLorenzo (Danvers, Mass.), Andrew Gentile (Danvers, Mass.), Anne Gabrielle McLoughlin (Danvers, Mass.), Robert Swierczek (Danvers, Mass.), Matthew D'Agostino (Danvers, Mass.) and Jonathan Barry (Danvers, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expandable introducer sheath with an interlock dilator. The present technology provides an expandable sheath with a step feature inside its...