US Patent Issued to Abiomed on March 31 for "Expandable introducer sheath for medical device" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,226, issued on March 31, was assigned to Abiomed Inc. (Danvers, Mass.).

"Expandable introducer sheath for medical device" was invented by Christopher Nason Korkuch (Beverly, Mass.), Glen R. Fantuzzi (Beverly, 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 end and the distal end, and having...