ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,201, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to RHEINISCH-WESTFALISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE (Aachen, Germany).

"Vascular implant and method for the production thereof" was invented by Valentine Gesche (Aachen, Germany), Alexander Lowen (Aachen, Germany), Kathrin Kurtenbach (Schermbeck, Germany) and Thomas Gries (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing a vascular implant. The method comprises: obtaining vessel parameters; creating a computer-aided model of a vascular implant based on the obtained vessel parameters, wherein the vascular implant comprises one or more modules, each comprising...