ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,628, issued on June 17, was assigned to MEDTRONIC INC. (Minneapolis).
"Delivery catheter system" was invented by Patrick Kleijnen (Mheer, Netherlands), Niels van der Knaap (Maastricht, Netherlands) and Estelle Fraysse (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery catheter system includes a catheter and an integrated embolic filter that is deployable prior to the delivery of a prosthesis in a patient's vasculature and retrievable after delivery of said prosthesis. The embolic filter is moveable from a collapsed state, in which the embolic filter is retained within the catheter body, to a deployed state in which the...