US Patent Issued to THE ASAN FOUNDATION, UNIVERSITY OF ULSAN FOUNDATION FOR INDUSTRY COOPERATION, STANDARD SCI-TECH, SEWOON MEDICAL on Sept. 1 for "Bile duct stent and method of manufacturing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,716, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to THE ASAN FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea), UNIVERSITY OF ULSAN FOUNDATION FOR INDUSTRY COOPERATION (Ulsan, South Korea), STANDARD SCI-TECH INC. (Seoul, South Korea) and SEWOON MEDICAL Co. LTD. (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

"Bile duct stent and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Tae Jun Song (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Hee Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bile duct stent and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The bile duct stent having a backflow preventing means according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a cylindrical body ha...