US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on April 15 for "Atraumatic stent and method and apparatus for making the same" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,053, issued on April 15, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Atraumatic stent and method and apparatus for making the same" was invented by Steve Lilburn (Princeton, Mass.), Paul K. Norton (Lunenburg, Mass.), Michael E. Zupkofska (Rockland, Mass.), Louis Bedard (Leominster, Mass.) and Glenn Harding (Sutton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of braiding a stent includes braiding a number of elongate filaments around a mandrel using tensioned braiding carriers without spooling the filaments to the tensioned braiding carriers to form a braided stent having atraumatic ends."

The patent was fil...