US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on May 6 for "Stent and associated systems and methods" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,460, issued on May 6, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Stent and associated systems and methods" was invented by James Quinn (Galway, Ireland), Ryan Desmond Lynch (Roscommon, Ireland), Gerard Duignan (Galway, Ireland), Darren Gerard Curran (Galway, Ireland), Sean P Fleury (Princeton, Mass.) and Peter L Dayton (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mesh element having a mesh gauge selected to control flow of materials therethrough. The mesh element is implantable into an anatomical structure upstream of a body passage or within a body passage to control flow of materials through the body...