US Patent Issued to W. L. Gore & Associates on Oct. 7 for "Constraining mechanisms for selective deployment and associated methods" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,775, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. (Newark, Del.).

"Constraining mechanisms for selective deployment and associated methods" was invented by Michael R. Broyles (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and 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. The apparatuses, systems and methods may include at least one constraining fiber arranged about a circumference of the medical device and a warp knit configured to separate to deploy the medical device to at least one intermediate constra...