US Patent Issued to Three Peaks Medical on March 3 for "Adjustable sheath device" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,702, issued on March 3, was assigned to Three Peaks Medical Pty Ltd (Norwood, Australia).

"Adjustable sheath device" was invented by Stephen Worthley (Tamarama, Australia), James Nicholson (Belair, Australia) and Simon Belcher (Panorama, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure generally relates to adjustable sheath devices for insertion into the body to provide intravascular access to various medical devices, involving a dynamically expandable sheath capable of expanding within the blood vessel when a medical device is passed through the sheath and retracting back to almost its original size when the medical device is...