ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,119, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Cook Medical Technologies LLC (Bloomington, Ind.).
"Stent graft" was invented by Martin W. Schmidt (Kobenhavn, Denmark), Bent Oehlenschlaeger (Lille Skensved, Denmark) and Erik E. Rasmussen (Slagelse, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a stent graft, including a graft body, a sealing stent at the proximal end of the graft body and completely overlapped by the graft body, and a diameter reducing loop arrangement. The sealing stent includes proximal apices at a proximal end thereof and distal apices at a distal end thereof. The diameter reducing loop arrangement includes a loop e...