US Patent Issued to Covidien on July 1 for "Delivery of medical devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,273, issued on July 1, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Delivery of medical devices" was invented by Kurt Haggstrom (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Michael L. Losordo (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) and Kenneth Brown (Oceanside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stent delivery system can include a core member, an introducer sheath, and a microcatheter. The core member can have a distal segment. The stent engagement member can have a generally tubular body positioned about the core member distal segment and can be rotatably coupled to the core member. The engagement member can include an inner layer that has a first durome...