US Patent Issued to Rotation Medical on Nov. 18 for "Methods and apparatus for deploying sheet-like materials" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,975, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Rotation Medical Inc..

"Methods and apparatus for deploying sheet-like materials" was invented by Charles L. Euteneuer (St. Michael, Minn.), Rebecca McCarville (Spring Park, Minn.), Duane Frion (Brooklyn, Minn.), Nathaniel Zenz-Olson (Blaine, Minn.), Diane M. Feehan (Corcoran, Minn.) and John Quackenbush (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implant delivery systems for delivering sheet-like implants include a delivery shaft, an implant expander, a sheath, and a sheet-like implant. In some embodiments, the delivery shaft has a proximal end and a distal end. The implant expander is m...