ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,170, issued on May 26, was assigned to SHENZHEN CHUANGXIN MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Stent system and vascular stent" was invented by Quande Li (Shenzhen, China), Yucheng Peng (Shenzhen, China) and Chengming Su (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vascular stent, which includes: a stent body including a plurality of ring-shaped units arranged at intervals and a connecting portion connecting all the ring-shaped units into a tubular structure, wherein the tubular structure has a first covered segment and a second covered segment that are provided with membrane, and an exposed segment configured for enga...