US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on June 9 for "Catheter insertion devices" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,048, issued on June 9, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Catheter insertion devices" was invented by Therese Claire Gilbert (St. Paul, Minn.), Timothy Marass (Minneapolis), Andrew Oliverius (Eagan, Minn.) and Nicholas Strom (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a medical device straightener. The medical device straightener can comprise an elongate shaft extending along a shaft longitudinal axis, the elongate shaft including a shaft proximal end and a shaft distal end, wherein a shaft inner wall of the elongate shaft defines a shaft ...