US Patent Issued to TC1 on Aug. 18 for "Catheter system for introducing expandable medical device and methods of using same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,351, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to TC1 LLC (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Catheter system for introducing expandable medical device and methods of using same" was invented by Keif M. Fitzgerald (San Jose, Calif.), Mojan Kassayan (Atherton, Calif.) and Ted Su (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter system includes a catheter, a recovery sheath, and an outer sheath assembly. The catheter includes an elongate body having an expandable medical device coupled with a distal end thereof. The recovery sheath is disposed around a proximal section of the catheter body, and is sized and shaped to receive the expandable medical de...