US Patent Issued to CooperSurgical on Dec. 2 for "Packaging systems for implantable devices and related methods" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,037, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CooperSurgical Inc. (Trumbull, Conn.).

"Packaging systems for implantable devices and related methods" was invented by Ashley Holbrooks (New Haven, Conn.), Fabio Pinto (Stamford, Conn.), Patrick N. Gutelius (Monroe, Conn.), Derek R. Kulakowski (Oxford, Conn.), Gary Helstern (Newtown, Conn.), Richard I. Farrington (Waterbury, Conn.) and John Triunfo (Fairfield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tray for securing an implantable device to a carrier member includes a slot configured to retain the carrier member and a receptacle adjacent the slot. The carrier member surrounds a shaft of the impla...