ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,794, issued on May 12, was assigned to Acandis GmbH (Pforzheim, Germany).
"Medical device for treating aneurysms" was invented by Michael Buchert (Pforzheim, Germany) and Giorgio Cattaneo (Karlsruhe, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a medical device for treating aneurysms, in particular a stent, including a compressible and expandable grid structure made up of grid elements. The grid structure has at least one closed cell ring which includes at most 12, in particular at most 10, in particular at most 8, in particular at most 6 cells directly adjacent to one another in a circumferential direction of the g...