US Patent Issued to V-Wave on Sept. 29 for "Systems and methods for making encapsulated hourglass shaped stents" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,110, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to V-Wave Ltd. (Caesarea, Israel).

"Systems and methods for making encapsulated hourglass shaped stents" was invented by Nir Nae (Binyamina, Israel), Lior Rosen (Zikhron Ya'akov, Israel), Neal Eigler (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Erez Rozenfeld (Shoham, Israel), Werner Hafelfinger (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Yeela Scop (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for the manufacture of an hourglass shaped stent-graft assembly having an hourglass shaped stent, graft layers, and an assembly mandrel having an hourglass shaped mandrel portion. Hourglass shaped stent may have supere...