US Patent Issued to ABIOMED on Feb. 24 for "Expandable introducer sheath for medical device" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,521, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ABIOMED Inc. (Danvers, Mass.).

"Expandable introducer sheath for medical device" was invented by Christopher Nason Korkuch (Danvers, Mass.), Glen R. Fantuzzi (Danvers, Mass.), Alexander Ship (Danvers, Mass.), Robert Swierczek (Danvers, Mass.) and Robert Fishman (Danvers, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An introducer sheath for the insertion of a medical device into a blood vessel having an expandable sheath. The sheath has a length, a thickness, and proximal and distal ends. The expandable sheath has a frame extending longitudinally between the proximal and the distal ends, and having an e...