ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,019, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Medtronic Vascular Inc. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).
"Delivery system for delivering a cardiovascular device" was invented by April K. Anderson (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Jeremy J. Kinkade (Larkspur, Colo.), Manthan P. Patel (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Timothy K. Bertini (Santa Rosa, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endovascular delivery system for delivering a stent graft within a blood vessel. The delivery system includes a guide member configured to carry the stent graft into the blood vessel and a graft cover configured to cover at least a portion of the stent graft as the guide member is inserted...