ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,288, issued on June 3, was assigned to Cephea Valve Technologies Inc. (Abbott Park, Ill.) and EVALVE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Insert for distal end cap" was invented by Randolf Von Oepen (Aptos, Calif.), Timothy C. Reynolds (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Evelyn N. Haynes (Soquel, Calif.), Sean A McNiven (Menlo Park, Calif.), Dan Wallace (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Peter Gregg (Santa Cruz, Calif.), John Hill (San Jose, Calif.) and David Tung (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intravascular device delivery system has an elongated member, a guidewire receiving member, and a distal cap longitudinally fixed to a guidewire receiving me...