US Patent Issued to Merit Medical Systems on Sept. 8 for "Medical snare" (Illinois, Pennsylvania, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,898, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Merit Medical Systems Inc. (South Jordan, Utah).

"Medical snare" was invented by Jahi Gist (Barrington, Ill.), Zach Ingram (Rolling Meadows, Ill.), Riley Rapert (Lake Zurich, Ill.), Lillian Rhodes (Littleton, Colo.) and Timothy Robert Smith (Butler, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Snares for retrieval of medical devices from the body of an animal, medical assemblies, kits, and methods of retrieving a medical device from the body of an animal are described. An example snare comprises an outer sheath defining an outer sheath lumen; an elongate member disposed in the outer sheath lumen and havi...