ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,203, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Cook Medical Technologies LLC (Bloomington, Ind.).
"Stent graft assembly" was invented by Erik E. Rasmussen (Slagelse, Denmark), Bent Oehlenschlaeger (Solroed Strand, Denmark), Jarin Kratzberg (Lafayette, Ind.), Robert Binskin (Queensland, Australia) and Chantelle King (Queensland, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stent graft for deployment in the aortic arch including at least a proximal stent ring at the proximal end of the tubular graft material, at least one fenestration provided in a side wall of the tubular graft material, an internal branch disposed within the lumen of the stent ...