US Patent Issued to Aquedeon Medical on May 12 for "Vascular and aortic connectors with robotic delivery and deployment methods thereof" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,797, issued on May 12, was assigned to Aquedeon Medical Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Vascular and aortic connectors with robotic delivery and deployment methods thereof" was invented by Thomas J. Palermo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deployment tool and associated method are disclosed for implanting a vascular connector in a patient. The vascular connector deployment tool has a housing, an inner sheath extending distally from the housing, a floating mandrel, a vascular connector disposed coaxially about the mandrel, and an outer sheath telescopically deployed over an inner sheath. The outer sheath constrains the vas...