US Patent Issued to W. L. Gore & Associates on July 22 for "Actuation line storage systems and methods" (Delaware, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,559, issued on July 22, was assigned to W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. (Newark, Del.).

"Actuation line storage systems and methods" was invented by Michael J. Shepard (Flagstaff, Del.) and James D. Silverman (Flagstaff, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device deployment apparatus that employs a first actuation line and a second actuation line, whereby a delay is sought between initiation of the actuation of the first actuation line and actuation of the second actuation line. Prior to actuation, the first actuation line includes sequentially aligned multiple loops, wherein the multiple loops provide predefined slack to del...