ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,134, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Anti-migration stent" was invented by Jasmine Clevenger (Sherborn, Mass.), Molly Solomon (Groton, Mass.), Jonathan Root (Townsend, Mass.), Kevin Windheuser (Hopkinton, Mass.), Garrett Casserly (Galway, Ireland) and Michael Walsh (Galway, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoprosthesis for implantation within a vessel lumen may include a tubular scaffold formed of one or more interwoven filaments, wherein the tubular scaffold is configured to shift between a radially collapsed configuration and a radially expanded configuration, a p...