US Patent Issued to B. Braun Melsungen on Jan. 13 for "Stent delivery system and handling device for a stent delivery system" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,262, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to B. Braun Melsungen AG (Melsungen, Germany).

"Stent delivery system and handling device for a stent delivery system" was invented by Bryan Murphy (Wicklow, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stent delivery system includes a handling device having a housing, a thumbwheel rotatably mounted in the housing, and a winding spool rotatable with the thumbwheel. A catheter arrangement has an inner shaft with an end fixed on the housing, an outer sheath disposed coaxially to the inner shaft, and a stent received radially between the inner shaft and outer sheath. A flexible pull member engages a prox...