ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,404, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Vascutek Ltd. (Renfrewshire, Great Britain).
"Sheath splitting apparatus" was invented by Callum Cresswell (Renfrewshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns a sheath splitting apparatus for use with a medical device delivery system for deploying a sheathed medical device. The sheath splitting apparatus comprising: a body 3 having a medical device pathway 11 for receiving a medical device, and one or more arm members having one or more guide elements 12 defining a sheath pathway for guiding sheath material removed from the sheathed medical device. At leas...