US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on March 24 for "Stent with improved deployment characteristics" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,537, issued on March 24, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Stent with improved deployment characteristics" was invented by Martyn G. Folan (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A knitted stent extending along a central longitudinal axis may comprise a filament forming a plurality of cells arranged in a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows. The plurality of rows may extend parallel to the central longitudinal axis. The plurality of columns may extend circumferentially around the central longitudinal axis. The plurality of rows may include a plurality of loop rows and a plurality of...