US Patent Issued to Serenity Medical on March 3 for "Method and system for delivering a self-expanding stent to the venous sinuses" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,504, issued on March 3, was assigned to Serenity Medical Inc. (Deephaven, Minn.).

"Method and system for delivering a self-expanding stent to the venous sinuses" was invented by Jeffrey P. Callister (Deephaven, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stent delivery system includes a shaft extending from a proximal end of the system into a delivery tip at a distal end. The shaft includes a coil and a stent bed. A stent is loaded onto the stent bed and has a first portion at its distal end having a greater flexibility than a second portion at its proximal end. Sheathing is moveable over the stent bed between pre-deployed and deployed po...