ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,444, issued on July 8, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).
"Locking guide catheter hubs" was invented by Bernhard Arnar (Minnetrista, Minn.), Nicholas V. Jepson (Buffalo, Minn.) and Jeremiah Blue (Andover, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery device for an implantable medical device may include an inner shaft configured to retain the implantable medical device at its distal end, an outer shaft slidably disposed about the inner shaft, and a locking hub affixed to the outer shaft. The locking hub may include a housing, a piston element in the housing, an actuator operatively coupled to...