US Patent Issued to Cook Medical Technologies on Dec. 9 for "Loading apparatus and system for expandable intraluminal medical devices" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,098, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Cook Medical Technologies LLC (Bloomington, Ind.).

"Loading apparatus and system for expandable intraluminal medical devices" was invented by Jeffry S Melsheimer (Springville, Ind.), Jessica L Burke (Bloomington, Ind.), Sean D Chambers (Bloomington, Ind.) and Arman Valaie (Bloomington, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Medical device loading apparatuses, systems, methods and kits are described. A loading apparatus comprises a main body having a passageway. The passageway has a first inner diameter, a second inner diameter, and a transition chamber. An expandable intraluminal medical device can ...