US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Dec. 9 for "Dissolvable or degradable adhesive polymer to prevent stent migration" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,292, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Dissolvable or degradable adhesive polymer to prevent stent migration" was invented by Claude O. Clerc (Marlborough, Mass.), Gerald Fredrickson (Westford, Mass.) and Mark Boden (Harrisville, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stent having an inner surface and an outer surface, at least a portion of the outer surface of the stent comprising a dissolvable adhesive polymer or a degradable adhesive polymer disposed on at least a portion of the outer surface of the stent, the adhesive is activated by exposure to an aqueous environment, the dissol...