US Patent Issued to BCM on March 24 for "Method for forming PTFE coating film on stent, and stent manufactured thereby" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,512, issued on March 24, was assigned to BCM Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Method for forming PTFE coating film on stent, and stent manufactured thereby" was invented by Byung Cheol Myung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Houn Sung Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of forming a PTFE film on a stent, a stent manufactured thereby, and more particularly to a method capable of forming a PTFE film on a stent regardless of the shape of the stent, preventing the PTFE film from being peeled off from the stent, and facilitating formation of the PTFE film on the stent, ...