US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC on Nov. 4 for "Assemblies including a pre-loaded implant and methods of sterilizing assemblies" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,482, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MEDTRONIC INC. (Minneapolis).

"Assemblies including a pre-loaded implant and methods of sterilizing assemblies" was invented by John Patrick O'Mahony (Clare, Ireland), Robert Mac Carthy (Irvine, Calif.), Ciara Haren (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Theresa Ann McDonagh (Spiddal, Ireland), Miriam Burke (Claregalway, Ireland), Christopher Faherty (Inis Mor, Ireland) and Jeffrey Barnell (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to storage assemblies including at least part of a delivery device and an implant. The storage assemblies are configured to trap sterilizing et...