US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific on Sept. 30 for "Catheter delivery system for stent valve" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,020, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Boston Scientific Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda).

"Catheter delivery system for stent valve" was invented by Stephane Delaloye (Bulach, Switzerland), Jean-Luc Hefti (Cheseaux-Noreaz, Switzerland), Fabien Lombardi (Ecublens, Switzerland) and Pierre Simonin (Montflovin, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery catheter for a stent. The delivery catheter may have a distal end and a proximal end. The distal end includes a stent attachment region adapted to receive a stent. The stent may be of the self-expanding type. The catheter further includes a handle at its proximal end and at least one sh...