US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI MICROPORT MEDICAL (GROUP) on Feb. 24 for "Degradable drug-loaded stent and manufacturing method therefor" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,241, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SHANGHAI MICROPORT MEDICAL (GROUP) Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Degradable drug-loaded stent and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Wei Liu (Shanghai), Xueqin Wang (Shanghai), Yaqin Gao (Shanghai) and Fan Qi (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A degradable drug-loaded stent and a manufacturing method therefor. The degradable drug-loaded stent comprises a stent body, an outer surface of the stent body being provided with a drug-loaded groove, the stent body having a contracted state and an expanded state, the stent body being capable of switching from the contracted state to the expand...