US Patent Issued to VESPER MEDICAL on July 14 for "Hybrid stent" (Pennsylvania, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,305, issued on July 14, was assigned to VESPER MEDICAL INC. (Wayne, Pa.).

"Hybrid stent" was invented by Michael A. Longo (Glenmoore, Pa.) and William James Harrison (Signal Mountain, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stent includes a high radial/crush force segment and a highly flexible segment. In an aspect, a plurality of first ring struts connected such that each of the plurality of first rings comprises a sinusoidal pattern having a plurality of apices and troughs, each first ring connected to an adjacent first ring by at least one connector. The connector extends from a ring strut of the first ring from a position near an ...