US Patent Issued to BCM on Dec. 16 for "Method of manufacturing covered stent and covered stent manufactured thereby" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,181, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to BCM Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Method of manufacturing covered stent and covered stent manufactured thereby" was invented by Byung Cheol Myung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Houn Sung Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a covered stent is disclosed. The method includes winding a first PTFE tape around a cylinder body of a jig, winding a second PTFE tape around a stent including the jig fitted therein, heating the stent in an oven, fitting the stent into upper and lower elastic members, fitting the elastic members into a mold, pressin...