US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC on Nov. 4 for "Delivery system having retractable wires as a coupling mechanism and a deployment mechanism for a self-expanding prosthesis" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,495, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MEDTRONIC INC. (Minneapolis).

"Delivery system having retractable wires as a coupling mechanism and a deployment mechanism for a self-expanding prosthesis" was invented by Paul Rothstein (Elk River, Minn.) and James R. Keogh (Maplewood, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery system for transcatheter implantation of a heart valve prosthesis. The delivery system includes an outer sheath component defining a lumen therethrough, an elongate tube having at least two flat wires longitudinally extending from a distal end thereof, and self-expanding first and second frames disposed in series wit...