US Patent Issued to Stryker, Stryker European Operations on Aug. 4 for "Implant delivery system and method of use" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,239, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Stryker European Operations Ltd. (Carrigtwohill, Ireland).

"Implant delivery system and method of use" was invented by Siddharth Loganathan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Beth Oldford (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Jeffrey Lu (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Rajan Chandrasekaran (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for delivering a tubular implant to a target location in a body lumen, wherein the tubular implant has a delivery length when in a radially collapsed, delivery configuration, and a foreshortened length shorter than the delivery length when in a r...