US Patent Issued to Cook Medical Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Embolic coil delivery systems and components with frangible release features" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,421, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cook Medical Technologies LLC (Bloomington, Ind.).

"Embolic coil delivery systems and components with frangible release features" was invented by Jens Kold (Jyllinge, Denmark), Jan Kristoffersen (Naestved, Denmark), Mikkel Kolding (Soro, Denmark), Rana Al-tayar (Bronshoj, Denmark) and Kim Mogelvang Jensen (Frederiksberg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embolic coil delivery system includes a delivery shaft that defines a delivery shaft lumen and an embolic coil device that is detachably connected to a distal region of the delivery shaft. The embolic coil device includes coil windings ...