ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,301, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Wedge-lock sheath retention mechanism" was invented by Kevin McConnell (Minneapolis), John McSweeney (Cork, Ireland), Eric Douglas Nygaard (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Daniel Patrick Sexton (Cork, Ireland) and Nicholas Lee Tassoni (Ramsey, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device system may include a sheath, a pusher wire, and a locking element. The pusher wire may be slidably disposed within a lumen of the sheath. The locking element may have a proximal end, a distal end, an intermediate region disposed between the proximal end and t...