ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,824, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Cephea Valve Technologies Inc. (Abbott Park, Ill.).
"Rotational detachable outer catheter" was invented by Sean A. McNiven (Menlo Park, Calif.), Randolf Von Oepen (Aptos, Calif.), Austin Sherman (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Francisco Valencia (East Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery system for delivering an implantable medical device, such as a prosthetic heart valve, intravascularly to a target site, such as a heart valve annulus in a patient. The system includes an outer sheath, a connecting arm connected to the outer sheath, a valve cover at the distal end of the outer shea...