US Patent Issued to ACANDIS on Oct. 6 for "Medical device for introducing into a bodily hollow viscus, medical set, and production method" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,812, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to ACANDIS GMBH (Pforzheim, Germany).

"Medical device for introducing into a bodily hollow viscus, medical set, and production method" was invented by Giorgio Cattaneo (Karlsruhe, Germany), Michael Buchert (Pforzheim, Germany), Heinrich Schima (Vienna) and Christian Grasl (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device for inserting into a hollow organ of the body, said medical device having a compressible and expandable lattice structure made of webs, which are integrally connected to each other by web connectors and which bound closed cells of the lattice structure, wherein the web connect...