US Patent Issued to Medtronic Vascular on Aug. 18 for "Delivery system for delivering an endovascular graft within a blood vessel" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,539, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Medtronic Vascular Inc. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Delivery system for delivering an endovascular graft within a blood vessel" was invented by Robert J. Murray III (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Ross L. Wilcox (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery system for delivering an endovascular graft within a blood vessel. The delivery system includes a tip assembly including a tip and a sleeve having an inner surface. The delivery system includes a tip capture mechanism. The tip assembly is configured to move axially relative to the tip capture mechanism and between a delivery position and...