US Patent Issued to TRICARES on Oct. 6 for "Loading tool and method for loading a prosthesis" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,845, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to TRICARES SAS (Paris).

"Loading tool and method for loading a prosthesis" was invented by Nadine Stappenbeck (Aschheim, Germany) and Helmut Straubinger (Aschheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a heart valve prosthesis loading device and a method for loading a heart valve prosthesis onto a delivery system."

The patent was filed on Sept. 19, 2019, under Application No. 17/277,496.

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