ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,840, issued on July 22, was assigned to Cephea Valve Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Mechanical interlock for catheters" was invented by Randolf von Oepen (Aptos, Calif.), Sean A. McNiven (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Francisco Valencia (East Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intravascular device delivery system has an elongated member with a flexible hypotube. The hypotube can be rotationally keyed to a steerable catheter. The flexible hypotube includes one or more cuts to allow bending of the flexible hypotube within a first plane. The steerable catheter is steerable to bend the flexible hypotube within the f...