US Patent Issued to MERIL LIFE SCIENCES PVT on June 16 for "Stent system for treating diffused lesions in bifurcated arteries" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,708, issued on June 16, was assigned to MERIL LIFE SCIENCES PVT LTD. (Vapi, India).

"Stent system for treating diffused lesions in bifurcated arteries" was invented by Pramod Kumar Minocha (Vapi, India), Deveshkumar Mahendralal Kothwala (Surat, India) and Harshad Amrutlal Parmar (Vapi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stent system is disclosed. The stent system includes a balloon catheter having a balloon with a proximal zone, a transition zone and a distal zone including progressively decreasing diameters respectively. The stent of a pre-defined length includes a main branch segment, a transition segment and a side branch segm...