US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Sept. 29 for "Implantable medical device with sealing to accommodate an irregular ostium" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,007, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Implantable medical device with sealing to accommodate an irregular ostium" was invented by James M. Anderson (Corcoran, Minn.), Jerry Wang (Edina, Minn.) and Joshua Mark Inouye (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable medical device includes an expandable frame that is expandable between a collapsed configuration for delivery and an expanded configuration for deployment, the expandable frame including a periphery defined by the expandable frame. A covering spans at least part of the expandable frame. An expandabl...