US Patent Issued to Aquedeon Medical on Sept. 2 for "Vascular and aortic grafts with telescoping sheath and deployment methods thereof" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,024, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Aquedeon Medical Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Vascular and aortic grafts with telescoping sheath 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 vascular connector deployment tool may include a handle, an elongated mandrel extending distally from the handle, a vascular connector disposed coaxially about the mandrel, a retractable sheath assembly including an outer sheath telescopically deployed over an inner sheath and an actuator on the handle that is configured to selectively retract the outer sheath and the inner sheath relat...