US Patent Issued to AORTO MEDICAL on Sept. 8 for "Flow restricting stent-graft" (Moroccan, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,987, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to AORTO MEDICAL LLC (Tangier, Morocco).

"Flow restricting stent-graft" was invented by Youssef El Azouzi (Tangier, Morocco) and Saleem Abdul Ganiy (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The presently described stent-graft includes a stent frame forming a cavity and frame wires extending around the stent frame perimeter. The stent frame is formed such that the cavity cross sectional area decreases along a first length of a flow restricting section to a cavity minimum cross sectional area and increases along a second length of the flow restricting section. The first length extends from ...