US Patent Issued to ABIOMED on Oct. 6 for "Expandable sheath with fold" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,077, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to ABIOMED Inc. (Danvers, Mass.).

"Expandable sheath with fold" was invented by Glen R. Fantuzzi (Danvers, Mass.), Robert Fishman (Danvers, Mass.), Jonathan Barry (Danvers, Mass.) and Anne Gabrielle McLoughlin (Danvers, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems, methods, and devices that provide an expandable sheath assembly for insertion of an interventional medical device (e.g., an intracardiac heart pump) into a blood vessel through a vessel aperture. The assembly may have an elongate sheath body having a proximal end, a distal end, and a lumen extending from the proximal end to the distal...