US Patent Issued to Medtronic Vascular on March 11 for "Variable rate prosthesis delivery system providing prosthesis alterations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,960, issued on March 11, was assigned to Medtronic Vascular Inc. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Variable rate prosthesis delivery system providing prosthesis alterations" was invented by Sohrab Sethna (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Jeffery Argentine (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and systems for prosthesis delivery to patient vasculature are provided. A prosthesis delivery device provided herein delivers a prosthesis to the vasculature of a patient and permits an operator to deploy the prosthesis using a single action mechanism to deploy the prosthesis at a standard deployment rate and a dual action mechanism...