ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,985, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MICRO-TECH (NANJING) Co. LTD. (Nanjing, China) and THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY (Suzhou, China).

"Silicone stent, implantation system, and manufacturing method" was invented by Junhong Jiang (Suzhou, China), Changguo Wang (Suzhou, China), Daxiong Zeng (Suzhou, China), Derong Leng (Nanjing, China), Jianyu Wei (Nanjing, China), Zhenghua Shen (Nanjing, China) and Minghao Feng (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a silicone stent (100), an implantation system, and a manufacturing method. The silicone stent (100) includes a stent body (110). The stent bo...