US Patent Issued to W. L. Gore & Associates on Feb. 11 for "Constraining mechanisms for selective deployment and associated methods" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,336, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. (Newark, Del.).

"Constraining mechanisms for selective deployment and associated methods" was invented by Jerry J. Stastka (Flagstaff, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward medical device deployment apparatuses, systems, and methods that include a constraint configured to releasably constrain the medical device. The constraint may be unraveled at different rates."

The patent was filed on Oct. 4, 2019, under Application No. 17/282,918.

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