ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,966, issued on April 14, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Additive mannufacturing of a medical device" was invented by James Michael English (County Tipperary, Ireland), Robert Hannon (County Tipperary, Ireland) and Mark David Mirigian (County Kilkenny, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method for manufacturing an object is disclosed. The example method includes determining the material composition of a base material, wherein determining the material composition of the base material includes determining the relative percentage of a first metal and the relative percentage of a secon...