US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Oct. 7 for "Hemostasis valve orientation relative to the fluid space in a introducer sheath" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,042, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Hemostasis valve orientation relative to the fluid space in a introducer sheath" was invented by Jay T. Rassat (Buffalo, Minn.), Stephen Howard (Forest Lake, Minn.), Megan L. Platner (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Kevin A. Knutsen (Ramsey, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hemostasis device includes a valve, the valve being sized and configured to be disposed entirely within a handle of medical device, the valve including a rim, the rim be sized and configured to seal with a lumen of the handle of the medical device."

The patent was filed on Aug. 2, 2023, under App...