US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Feb. 3 for "Stent including anchoring members" (Minnesota, Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,207, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Stent including anchoring members" was invented by Mark Kringle (Minneapolis), Devon N. Arnholt (Shoreview, Minn.), Mark W. Boden (Harrisville, R.I.), David Shreeve (Northborough, Mass.), Christopher Macomber (Wayzata, Minn.), Danilo B. Decio (Worcester, Mass.), Mitchell Cahan (Holden, Mass.) and Pradeep P. Nazarey (Shrewsbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating an intestine with an expandable scaffolding expanded within the intestine. After placing the expandable scaffolding at a target location, such as across a fistul...