ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,705, issued on June 16, was assigned to SHANGHAI FLOWDYNAMICS MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).
"Axially compressible and stretchable bare stent" was invented by Jian Ding (Shanghai) and Chenying Fan (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stent for aorta is formed by weaving at least two types of filaments having different diameters, such as a first filament and a second filament. The stent is configured to be at least partially compressible and extensible along the axial direction of the stent in a natural release state, wherein the first filament has a diameter of 20-150 micro metre, and the second filament has a diameter...