US Patent Issued to Stryker, Stryker European Operations Holdings on March 25 for "Vaso-occlusive device delivery system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,939, issued on March 25, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

"Vaso-occlusive device delivery system" was invented by Clifford Teoh (Los Altos, Calif.), Timothy Odell (Fremont, Calif.), Hancun Chen (San Ramon, Calif.), Lantao Guo (San Ramon, Calif.) and Richard Murphy (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vaso-occlusive device delivery assembly includes a pusher assembly having proximal and distal ends, a conductive sacrificial link disposed at the distal end of the pusher assembly, and a vaso-occlusive device secured to the pusher assembly by...