ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,697, issued on June 30, was assigned to Hangzhou Valgen Medtech Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Multi-directional adjustable sheath and transcatheter intervention system" was invented by Jianan Wang (Hangzhou, China), Xianbao Liu (Hangzhou, China), Zetao Wang (Hangzhou, China), Weiwei Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Tingchao Zhang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a sheath adjustable in multiple directions and a transcatheter interventional system. The sheath that can be adjusted in multiple directions includes: a body section, a bending section, connected with the distal end of the body section, the bending sect...