ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,888, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.) and Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC (Portage, Mich.).
"Braided medical devices" was invented by Andrew S. Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Mark Phung (Union City, Calif.), Hancun Chen (San Ramon, Calif.) and Timothy Odell (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A braided vaso-occlusive member formed out of first plurality of filaments interwoven with a second plurality of filaments, wherein filaments of the first plurality are helically wound in a first rotational direction along an elongate axis of the braided member, and filaments of the second plurality...