US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on July 28 for "Cover stent" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,992, issued on July 28, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Cover stent" was invented by Takahira Tokimoto (Hachioji, Japan) and Toshiaki Hayashi (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cover stent includes: a mesh tube knitted into a tube by a wire including a first bending portion protruding toward a first end portion in a longitudinal direction of the tube and a second bending portion protruding toward a second end portion opposite to the first end portion in the longitudinal direction, the first and second bending portions intersecting each other by being twisted once; a cover covering outside or inside of the mesh ...