US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Oct. 7 for "Stent, mandrel, and method for forming a stent with anti-migration features" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,774, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Stent, mandrel, and method for forming a stent with anti-migration features" was invented by Martyn G. Folan (County Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical stent having a first end, a second end, and a central longitudinal axis extending from the first end to the second end, may include a plurality of first filaments each extending in a first helical path around the central longitudinal axis in a first direction and a plurality of second filaments each extending in a second helical path around the central longitudinal axis in ...