ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,448, issued on April 15.
"Flexible intra-vascular aneurysm treatment stent" was invented by Joseph Horton (Birmingham, Ala.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intra-vascular aneurysm-treatment stent and a method for lowering pressure within an aneurysm bubble in a blood vessel. A stent coil is insertable into a blood vessel, the coil made of a material sufficiently flexible to move around curves, loops, and corners in the blood vessel. The stent coil is positioned in the blood vessel with selected stent coil portions proximate an opening into either a saccular aneurysm or a fusiform aneurysm. Blood in the lumen of the blood vessel flow...