US Patent Issued to ABBOTT CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS on Oct. 20 for "Shape memory bioresorbable polymer peripheral scaffolds" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,015, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ABBOTT CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Shape memory bioresorbable polymer peripheral scaffolds" was invented by John J. Stankus (Campbell, Calif.), Hugh Zhao (Pleasanton, Calif.), Mikael Trollsas (San Jose, Calif.), Syed Faiyaz Ahmed Hossainy (Hayward, Calif.), Michael H. Ngo (San Jose, Calif.), Yunbing Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Benjamyn Serna (Gilroy, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bioabsorbable scaffolds having high crush recoverability, high fracture resistance, and reduced or no recoil due to self expanding properties at physiological conditions are disclosed. ...