US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on June 3 for "Repositionable and removable stents" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,316, issued on June 3, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Repositionable and removable stents" was invented by Damien V. Nolan (Galway, Ireland) and Martyn G. Folan (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative endoluminal implant having an elongated tubular member. The elongated tubular member having a stent and a retrieval suture interwoven with the stent. The retrieval suture including a first suture loop extending about a circumference of the stent and adjacent to a suture retrieval loop and a second suture loop extending about a circumference of the stent and longitudinally spac...