ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,006, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SHANGHAI MICROPORT CARDIOFLOW MEDTECH Co. LTD. (Shanghai).
"Delivery device" was invented by Xuwen Wu (Shanghai), Baozhu Gui (Shanghai), Jie Mei (Shanghai), Guoming Chen (Shanghai) and Yu Li (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery device (1, 1') for loading, delivering and deploying an implant (2) includes a handle (18), an inner tubular core (11), a sheath tube (13) and a guide tip (12). The inner tubular core (11) is coupled, at a proximal end thereof, to an inner tubular core actuation member arranged in the handle (18), and the guide tip (12) is disposed at a distal end of the i...