US Patent Issued to BCM on Dec. 9 for "Biliary stent having winding and fixing member around which pulling string is wound" (South Korean, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,095, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to BCM Co. LTD (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Biliary stent having winding and fixing member around which pulling string is wound" was invented by Byung Cheol Myung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Fotheringham Timothy (Greater London, Great Britain) and Houn Sung Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a biliary stent having a winding and fixing member around which a pulling string is wound, and the biliary stent includes a stent having a cylindrical body having space parts and bent ends formed on both ends thereof and configured such that the pulling string is woven with...