US Patent Issued to The Foundry on April 14 for "Expandable devices and associated systems and methods" (Connecticut, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,471, issued on April 14, was assigned to The Foundry LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Expandable devices and associated systems and methods" was invented by Hanson S. Gifford III (Woodside, Calif.), Edward DeWitt Gifford (Glastonbury, Conn.) and Vrad W. Levering (Smithville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for treating a blood flow passage are disclosed herein. For example, expandable devices of the present technology may comprise a stent having a collapsed configuration for delivery through a delivery device to a treatment site in a body conduit and an expanded configuration. The stent may comprise a pl...