US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on June 16 for "Oval stent" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,661, issued on June 16, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Oval stent" was invented by Emil Karapetian (Huntington Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stent comprises an elastically deformable stent wall forming a lumen extending between a first opening and a second opening of the stent. The stent wall is configured to be percutaneously delivered into a blood vessel, secure to a blood vessel wall of a blood vessel, and radially expand from a first configuration to a second configuration within the blood vessel into direct contact with the blood vessel wall. The first configuration defines a first...