US Patent Issued to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY on June 24 for "Bioresorbable endoluminal prosthesis for medium and large vessels" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,081, issued on June 24, was assigned to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland) and MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (Houghton, Mich.).

"Bioresorbable endoluminal prosthesis for medium and large vessels" was invented by Martin Bocks (Shaker Heights, Ohio), Jaroslaw Drelich (Houghton, Mich.), Jeremy Goldman (Hougton, Mich.) and Ehsan Mostaed (Hougton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoluminal prosthesis includes an implantable scaffold and/or stent substrate which is convertible from a compressed first geometric shape to a radially dilated dimensionally stable second tubular second geometric shape, the scaffold and/or s...