US Patent Issued to Stryker, Stryker European Operations on Oct. 27 for "Implant delivery assembly with distal protection" (California, Utah, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,331, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Stryker European Operations Ltd. (Carrigtwohill, Ireland).

"Implant delivery assembly with distal protection" was invented by Clay W. Northrop (Salt Lake City), Aleksandr Leynov (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Siddharth Loganathan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Danny Lai (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Jonathan Gibbs (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Samit Mustafa (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery system for deploying a medical implant includes a delivery wire assembly disposed within a delivery catheter lumen, the assembly having an implant loading region configured for...