US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC on May 26 for "Delivery system with anchoring nosecone and method of delivery" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,151, issued on May 26, was assigned to MEDTRONIC INC. (Minneapolis).

"Delivery system with anchoring nosecone and method of delivery" was invented by Jason Quill (Forest Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery device includes an inner shaft, an outer sheath, a nosecone, and a tether component. The outer sheath is slidably disposed over the inner shaft. The nosecone is removably coupled to the inner shaft. The nosecone includes a delivery configuration for delivery to a treatment site, a radially compressed configuration in which a portion of the nosecone is configured to traverse through a heart wall, and a radially expa...