US Patent Issued to ABIOMED, Oscor on Sept. 1 for "Overmold technique for peel-away introducer design" (Massachusetts, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,965, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ABIOMED Inc. (Danvers, Mass.) and Oscor Inc. (Palm Harbor, Fla.).

"Overmold technique for peel-away introducer design" was invented by Glen Fantuzzi (Danvers, Mass.), Michael Tafone (Danvers, Mass.) and Jeffrey Drum (Palm Harbor, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a medical introducer includes placing an introducer sheath onto a mandrel, and overmolding an introducer hub onto a proximal end of the introducer sheath. The introducer sheath has one or more score lines formed on an inner surface and the mandrel has a number of surface protrusions so that when the introdu...