US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on July 7 for "Stent system for maintaining patency of a body lumen" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,970, issued on July 7, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Stent system for maintaining patency of a body lumen" was invented by Martyn G. Folan (Galway, Ireland), Jonathan Root (Townsend, Mass.), Louis McNern (Donegal, Ireland) and Daniel Tuck (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for maintaining patency of a body lumen may include a first endoprosthesis configured to shift from a straightened configuration to a helical configuration defining a plurality of loops, and a second endoprosthesis configured to shift from a radially collapsed configuration toward a radially expanded confi...