US Patent Issued to Vascutek on July 22 for "Valve component and valve assembly" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,847, issued on July 22, was assigned to Vascutek Ltd. (Renfrewshire, Great Britain).

"Valve component and valve assembly" was invented by John King (Strathclyde, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a valve component for a medical valve assembly (10), the valve component comprising a deformable body (1) for location in a valve assembly housing, the deformable body comprising a conduit for receiving one or more medical instruments there-through, one or more helical grooves (9) being formed on a surface of the conduit, the one or more helical grooves extending into the deformable body from the c...