US Patent Issued to Terumo on Oct. 27 for "Stent and stent delivery device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,328, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Terumo Corp. (Tokyo).

"Stent and stent delivery device" was invented by Shirley Vong (Tokyo), Priscilla Tsai (Tokyo), Cang Lam (Tokyo), Ross Soltanian (Tokyo), Greg Bak-Boychuk (Tokyo), Tai D. Tieu (Tokyo), Ponaka Pung (Tokyo), Arnold Tuason (Tokyo) and Heather Griffith (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment according to the present invention, a stent is described having a generally cylindrical body formed from a single woven nitinol wire. The distal and proximal ends of the stent include a plurality of loops, some of which include marker members used for visualizing the positi...