ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,832, issued on May 27, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Biliary stents and methods" was invented by Kenneth F. Binmoeller (San Francisco), Sieu T. Duong (Hayward, Calif.), Hanh Duong (Hayward, Calif.) and Thao Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue lumen stent is provided with a body having an elongated tubular configuration and a foreshortened configuration. In the foreshortened configuration, downstream and upstream ends of the body expand radially into downstream and upstream flange structures, leaving a generally cylindrical saddle region therebetween. In some embodime...