US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels Medical Device Center on March 17 for "Stents, systems, and methods for gastrointestinal tract treatment" (Belgian, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,923, issued on March 17, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.), Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels) and Brussels Medical Device Center (Brussels).

"Stents, systems, and methods for gastrointestinal tract treatment" was invented by Martyn G. Folan (Galway, Ireland), Jacques Deviere (Nivelles, Belgium), Nicolas Cauche (Brussels), Thomas M. Keating (Galway, Ireland), Martin Burke (Galway, Ireland), Daniel Tuck (Galway, Ireland) and Cecilia Delattre (Brussels).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to stents, systems, and methods for gastrointestinal treatment. In some em...