US Patent Issued to Covidien on Sept. 29 for "Implantable expandable structures for treating small vessels" (California, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,136, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Implantable expandable structures for treating small vessels" was invented by Ramesh V. Marrey (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and David C. Majercak (Bloomington, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Expandable structures for treating blood vessels are disclosed herein. According to some embodiments, the present technology includes a stent, comprising a plurality of struts connected to one another at a plurality of apices, wherein the struts are arranged in a plurality of bands, each band extending around a circumference of the stent. Within a given band, the struts ma...