ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,944, issued on July 29, was assigned to ABIOMED INC. (Danvers, Mass.).
"Variable size repositioning sheath" was invented by Glen Fantuzzi (Danvers, Mass.), Christopher Korkuch (Danvers, Mass.), Caitlyn Hastie (Danvers, Mass.), Robert Fishman (Danvers, Mass.), Akshay Ashok (Danvers, Mass.) and John Modlish (Danvers, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for insertion of a medical device into a blood vessel. The system may include a sheath assembly with an introducer sheath and a variable size repositioning sheath. The variable size repositioning sheath may be configured to be adjustable in size in a rad...