ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,639, issued on June 17, was assigned to Twelve Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Delivery systems with telescoping capsules for deploying prosthetic heart valve devices and associated methods" was invented by Kevin Mauch (Windsor, Calif.) and Joshua Dwork (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Delivery systems with telescoping capsules for delivering prosthetic heart valve devices and associated methods are disclosed herein. A delivery system configured in accordance with embodiments of the present technology can include, for example, a delivery capsule having a first housing, a second housing slidably disposed within a porti...