US Patent Issued to Angiolutions on Aug. 25 for "Method for defining a placement position" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,503, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Angiolutions GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for defining a placement position" was invented by Uwe Raaz (Leipzig, Germany) and Isabel Nahal Schellinger (Leipzig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planning method for defining a placement position of a stent in an abdominal aorta of a subject is described. An abdominal aortic aneurysm portion of the abdominal aorta has an aneurysm sac and an aneurysm neck, a distal end of the aneurysm neck, a lower renal aortic ostium, a first distance between a distal end of the lower renal aortic ostium and the distal end of the aneurysm neck, and a s...