US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Nov. 4 for "Apparatus and method for deploying stent across adjacent tissue layers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,356, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Apparatus and method for deploying stent across adjacent tissue layers" was invented by Hoang Phan (Fremont, Calif.), John Lunsford (San Carlos, Calif.) and Kenneth Binmoeller (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transluminal access system includes a stent delivery catheter having a handle control mechanism. The catheter comprises a number of components for establishing an initial penetration between adjacent body lumens and subsequently implanting a stent or other luminal anchor therebetween. Manipulation of the stent components is ac...