ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,868, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Intravascular stent having high fatigue performance" was invented by Diem Uyen Ta (San Jose, Calif.), Senthil K. Eswaran (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Nianjiong Joan Bei (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention is directed to an expandable stent for implantation in a body lumen, such as an artery, and a method for making it from a single length of tubing. The stent consists of a plurality of radially expandable cylindrical elements generally aligned on a common axis and interconnected by one or more links. A Y-shaped...