ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,802, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cook Medical Technologies LLC (Bloomington, Ind.).
"Introducer assembly particularly for balloon catheters" was invented by Kasper Klausen (Lille Skensved, Denmark), Palle Munk Hansen (Bjaeverskov, Denmark), Nicholas Gulmann Lundsteen (Hvalsoe, Denmark) and Anders Bro (Dragor, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An introducer assembly (10) includes a catheter (12) having a proximal end (14), a distal end (16) extending to a distal tip of the introducer assembly, and an outer catheter wall. The catheter (12) includes a medical device holding portion (34) proximate the distal end, a guide wire...