US Patent Issued to W. L. Gore & Associates on Nov. 11 for "External steerable fiber for use in endoluminal deployment of expandable devices" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,510, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. (Newark, Del.).

"External steerable fiber for use in endoluminal deployment of expandable devices" was invented by Matthew S. Beard (Phoenix), Martin J. Sector (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Matthew G. Sondreaal (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes treatment of the vasculature of a patient with an expandable implant. The implant is constrained to a reduced delivery diameter for delivery within the vasculature by at least one sleeve. The implant can be constrained to other diameters, such as an intermediate diameter. The sleeves can be expan...