US Patent Issued to Merit Medical Systems on July 14 for "Transluminal delivery devices and related kits and methods" (Texas, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,307, issued on July 14, was assigned to Merit Medical Systems Inc. (South Jordan, Utah).

"Transluminal delivery devices and related kits and methods" was invented by Bryan K. Elwood (Arlington, Texas), Thomas Patrick Robinson (Addison, Texas), Zeke Eller (Plano, Texas) and John Twomey (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prosthesis deployment devices are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the prosthesis deployment device comprises an elongate delivery catheter assembly configured for electrosurgery and also configured to retain and deploy a prosthesis. Kits comprising the prosthesis deployment devices with a prosthesis...