ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,334, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Anti-migration stent" was invented by David Collins (Galway, Ireland), Darren G. Curran (Galway, Ireland), Fionn Stapleton (Galway, Ireland), Ryan Desmond Lynch (Roscommon, Ireland), John O'Driscoll (Galway, Ireland) and Aran Murphy (Wexford, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example medical device may include a stent including a radially expanding tubular framework having a radially outward surface, a radially inward surface, a first end region, a second end region, a medial region positioned between the first end region and the seco...