US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed, Universite Libre De Bruxelles on March 4 for "Esophageal stent including an inner liner" (Belgian, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,524, issued on March 4, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Universite Libre De Bruxelles (Brussels).

"Esophageal stent including an inner liner" was invented by Martyn G. Folan (Galway, Ireland), Thomas M. Keating (Galway, Ireland), Jacques Deviere (Brussels) and Nicolas Cauche (Brussels).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example medical device is disclosed as an expandable stent. The stent includes a tubular scaffold having an inner surface, an outer surface, and a lumen extending therein. The expandable stent also includes a liner disposed within the lumen of the tubular scaffold. Further, the lin...