US Patent Issued to W. L. Gore & Associates on July 14 for "Endoprostheses with interlocking stents having varying stiffness" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,306, issued on July 14, was assigned to W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. (Newark, Del.).

"Endoprostheses with interlocking stents having varying stiffness" was invented by James D. Silverman (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Tyson J. Skelton (Flagstaff, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoprosthesis having a length, a first end, a second end, and a longitudinal axis is disclosed herein, where the endoprosthesis is expandable from a compact, delivery configuration to an enlarged, deployed configuration. The endoprosthesis includes a plurality of rows of stent elements along the length of the endoprosthesis, where the plurality of rows includ...