US Patent Issued to B. Braun Melsungen on Sept. 16 for "Stent delivery system and handling device for a stent delivery system" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,869, issued on Sept. 16, 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 (Bray, 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 rotating with the thumbwheel. A catheter arrangement includes an inner shaft fixed on the housing. An outer sheath is coaxial to the inner shaft. A stent is received between the inner shaft and outer sheath. A pull member engages the outer sheath and is held on the windin...