ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,135, issued on May 13, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).
"Penetrable closed sheath tip" was invented by Anthony H. Siuda (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing a sheath tip with a solid end surface configured to be pierceable by an instrument, where the solid end surface is configured to distribute force of impact with a tissue surface across the solid end surface. In an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus includes a closed sheath tip has a solid end surface configured to be pierceable by an instrument. The closed sheath tip is...