US Patent Issued to Medtronic on June 17 for "Tether assemblies for medical device retrieval systems" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,411, issued on June 17, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Tether assemblies for medical device retrieval systems" was invented by Ronald A. Drake (St. Louis Park, Minn.), Lester O. Stener (Hudson, Wis.), Brian P. Colin (Anoka, Minn.), Zhongping C. Yang (Woodbury, Minn.) and Thomas A. Anderson (New Hope, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a system includes a catheter comprising an elongated shaft defining a lumen, and a tether assembly. The tether assembly may include an elongate body, a tether head assembly attached to a distal end of the elongate body, where the tether head assembly includes an attac...