US Patent Issued to Bard Peripheral Vascular on Sept. 29 for "Lymph conduction system implant and method of using same" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,109, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Bard Peripheral Vascular Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Lymph conduction system implant and method of using same" was invented by Summer Ford (Queen Creek, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lymph conduction system implant includes a stent graft and a porous membrane. The stent graft has a non-porous tubular side wall. The non-porous tubular side wall has a proximal end and a distal end. The non-porous tubular side wall is configured to define a lumen having an inflow port at the proximal end and an outflow port at the distal end. All exposed surfaces of the stent graft are made of a first...