Patent 11083556 was granted and assigned to Pulmonx Corporation on August, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Devices, methods, and systems are provided for loading an implantable device into a container. One aspect of the loading system contains a loader element with a loading tunnel that is configured to gradually contract an implantable device into a compressed state of reduced size relative to an expanded state as the implantable device travels through the loading tunnel.