ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,583, issued on May 13, was assigned to MicroVention Inc. (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).
"Implant delivery system" was invented by Tai D. Tieu (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Hideo Morita (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Helen Nguyen (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implant delivery system may have a pusher. The pusher may have an elongated shape. A distal end of the pusher may be configured to connect to an implant. The implant delivery system may have a tether connected to the pusher and to the implant. The implant delivery system may have a heating element mounted over the tether biased to contract a first surface of the heating elem...