US Patent Issued to ATRIUM MEDICAL on June 24 for "Stent device having reduced foreshortening and recoil and method of making same" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,921, issued on June 24, was assigned to ATRIUM MEDICAL Corp. (Merrimack, N.H.).

"Stent device having reduced foreshortening and recoil and method of making same" was invented by John Lane (Manchester, N.H.), David Heim (Portsmouth, N.H.), Christine Schick (Merrimack, N.H.), Jennifer Letzelter (Littleton, Colo.) and Susan Hamelin (Dracut, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stent device includes generally cylindrical rings aligned along a longitudinal axis, and interconnected by interconnecting members. Each interconnecting member includes a first coupling end, a second coupling end, and an elongate portion therebetween. The first ...