US Patent Issued to VENUS MEDTECH (HANGZHOU) on May 6 for "Method and assembly for securing an implantable medical device on a delivery system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,459, issued on May 6, was assigned to VENUS MEDTECH (HANGZHOU) INC. (Hangzhou, China).

"Method and assembly for securing an implantable medical device on a delivery system" was invented by Trinh Van Pham (Westminster, Calif.) and Ashley Rachel Zeng (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an assembly for securing a crimped medical device over a deflated balloon of a balloon catheter is provided. The medical device is positioned in its expanded state over the deflated balloon of the balloon catheter, and is then crimped over the deflated balloon. First and second eyelets of first and second strings, respectively, ar...