US Patent Issued to OTSUKA MEDICAL DEVICES on Dec. 2 for "Drug-eluting stent including crystalline cilostazol" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,026, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to OTSUKA MEDICAL DEVICES Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Drug-eluting stent including crystalline cilostazol" was invented by Masakazu Nagasawa (Tokyo), Hiroshi Ohno (Tokyo) and Takafumi Ohyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a stent comprising: a stent skeleton; and a deposition layer containing a plurality of layers deposited on the stent skeleton; each layer of the deposition layer comprising crystalline cilostazol, at least one of the plurality of layers comprising a bioabsorbable polymer."

The patent was filed on Sept. 12, 2023, under Application No. 18/465,332.

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