US Patent Issued to ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH on Oct. 28 for "Sheath assembly for insertion of a cord-shaped element, particularly a catheter, into the body of a patient" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,841, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Aachen, Germany).

"Sheath assembly for insertion of a cord-shaped element, particularly a catheter, into the body of a patient" was invented by Joerg Schumacher (Aachen, Germany), Lars Bredenbreuker (Aachen, Germany) and Robert Decke (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sheath assembly for the insertion of a cord-shaped element, comprising an introducer sheath, and an auxiliary sheath for insertion into the introducer sheath together with the cord-shaped element. In some examples, the auxiliary sheath has a housing configured to detachably couple to ...