US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Dec. 23 for "Anti-migration micropatterned stent coating" (Minnesota, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,290, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Anti-migration micropatterned stent coating" was invented by Laura Elizabeth Firstenberg (Boston) and Sean P. Fleury (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoprosthesis has an expanded state and an unexpanded state, the endoprosthesis includes a stent, wherein the stent has a first end, a second end, an inner surface defining a lumen, an outer surface, and a thickness defined between the inner surface and the outer surface; and a stent end covering disposed at one of the first and second ends, the stent end covering including a poly...