ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,718, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. (Newark, Del.).
"Pre-strained stent elements" was invented by James D. Silverman (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Olga Baykova (Flagstaff, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems and methods that include a self-expanding endoprosthesis having a reduced configuration and a deployed configuration. The self-expanding endoprosthesis may include a self-expanding stent element having an enlarged diameter and a graft component attached to at least a portion of the self-expanding stent element and having ...