US Patent Issued to Merit Medical Systems on July 7 for "Electrospun PTFE coated stent and method of use" (Texas, California, Utah, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,951, issued on July 7, was assigned to Merit Medical Systems Inc. (South Jordan, Utah).

"Electrospun PTFE coated stent and method of use" was invented by Zeke Eller (Plano, Texas), John William Hall (North Salt Lake, Utah), Robert S. Kellar (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Rachel Lynn Simmons (North Salt Lake, Utah), Robert J. Radford (Freemont, Calif.) and Bart Dolmatch (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stent or other prosthesis may be formed by coating a single continuous wire scaffold with a polymer coating. The polymer coating may consist of layers of electrospun polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). Electrospun PTFE of certain porosities may...