ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,067, issued on July 29, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Stent including anti-migration capabilities" was invented by Travis Henchie (Worcester, Mass.) and Shawn Ryan (Littleton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device for treating a body lumen, such as a medical stent, includes an expandable scaffold configured to shift from a radially collapsed state to a radially expanded state. The stent includes a coating disposed along the outer surface of the expandable scaffold in which a portion of the coating includes a plurality of anti-migration members and one or more preferential separat...