US Patent Issued to Cook Medical Technologies on July 28 for "Increased drainage and decreased internal stress ureteral stent design" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,991, issued on July 28, was assigned to Cook Medical Technologies LLC (Bloomington, Ind.).

"Increased drainage and decreased internal stress ureteral stent design" was invented by Santanu Chandra (West Lafayette, Ind.), Richard Swift (South Bend, Ind.), Conor Heffernan (Limerick, Ireland), Nathan Killey (Appleton, Wis.) and Jonathan Sheets (Greenwood, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ureteral stent may comprise an elongate member with an internal-luminal space. The member may have at least one end coiled in a pigtail-shape, a substantially straight portion, and a plurality of side ports wherein the plurality of side ports are lo...