US Patent Issued to DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS on Sept. 2 for "Detachment indicator for implant deployment" (Florida, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,886, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS INC. (Raynham, Mass.).

"Detachment indicator for implant deployment" was invented by Daniel Solaun (Miami), David Blumenstyk (Miami) and Masood Siddiqui (Raynham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery system for deploying an implantable medical device to a target location of a body vessel can include a tubular body with a lumen extending therethrough, a pull wire extending through the lumen, and a proximal support tube disposed within the lumen and engaged to the pull wire such that proximal translation of the support tube causes proximal translation of the pull...