US Patent Issued to W. L. Gore & Associates on Nov. 25 for "Constraining mechanisms for selective deployment and associated methods" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,490, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. (Newark, Del.).

"Constraining mechanisms for selective deployment and associated methods" was invented by Tyson J. Skelton (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. The apparatuses, systems, and methods may include at least one first constraining fiber arranged as a series of multiple loops to form a warp knit surrounding the medical device in a constrained configuration and at least one second constraining fiber arranged with the at leas...