US Patent Issued to Vascutek on June 16 for "Stent graft prosthesis" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,662, issued on June 16, was assigned to Vascutek Ltd. (Renfrewshire, Great Britain).

"Stent graft prosthesis" was invented by Robbie Brodie (Lanarkshire, Great Britain), Gary McDonald (Lanarkshire, Great Britain) and Seonaid Nimmo (Lanarkshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stent graft prosthesis for repair of a defective natural vessel comprises a tubular fabric member having at least first and second ends, wherein at least one of those ends is supported by a combination of two cooperating ring stents of different configurations, and the tubular fabric member is attached at selected points to each ring stent, and at...