US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on June 23 for "Device and method for compressing and loading a stent" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,246, issued on June 23, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Device and method for compressing and loading a stent" was invented by Declan Loughnane (Galway, Ireland), Tim O'Connor (Galway, Ireland), Pearse A. Coffey (Galway, Ireland) and Joseph Murphy (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for radially compressing a stent may include a housing including a central opening and a first iris positioned adjacent the housing. The first iris includes a first circumferential ring and a first plurality of arms extending radially inward from the first circumferential ring to define a first cen...