US Patent Issued to C. R. Bard on Nov. 4 for "Uniformly expandable stent" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,516, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to C. R. Bard Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Uniformly expandable stent" was invented by Andrzej J. Chanduszko (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intraluminal prosthesis includes a stent architecture having a series of stent elements repeating along a circumferential axis. One series of stent elements includes v-shaped stent elements having at least four different orientations, and V-shaped stent elements connecting adjacent v-shaped stent elements. One series of stent elements includes R-shaped stent elements having at least four different orientations, and U-shaped stent elements ha...