US Patent Issued to DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS on Sept. 23 for "Pull wire detachment for intravascular devices" (Massachusetts, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,645, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS INC. (Raynham, Mass.).

"Pull wire detachment for intravascular devices" was invented by Tyson Montidoro (Raynham, Mass.) and Juan Lorenzo (Davie, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly at a proximal end of an intravascular delivery system can allow the proximal end of a pull wire to move independently of a delivery tube. The assembly can generally include the pull wire, the delivery tube, a feature to prevent the proximal end of the pull wire from becoming inaccessible due to distal movement of the pull wire, and a feature to protect the proximal end of the pul...