US Patent Issued to Cook Medical Technologies on Aug. 5 for "Medical cannulae, delivery systems and methods" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,979, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Cook Medical Technologies LLC (Bloomington, Ind.).

"Medical cannulae, delivery systems and methods" was invented by Joshua Frye Krieger (Bloomington, Ind.) and Melissa Lonn (Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to cannulae, delivery systems, methods of making cannulae, and methods of making delivery systems. A delivery system comprises an elongate outer tubular member defining an outer tubular member lumen, a cannula having a circumferential wall extending between a proximal end and a distal end and defining an interior lumen, and an intraluminal medical device di...