US Patent Issued to Cook Medical Technologies on March 11 for "Stent structures for use with valve replacements" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,936, issued on March 11, was assigned to Cook Medical Technologies LLC (Bloomington, Ind.).

"Stent structures for use with valve replacements" was invented by Timothy A. Chuter (San Francisco), Blayne A. Roeder (Bloomington, Ind.), Sharath Gopalakrishnamurthy (Bangalore, India) and Alan R. Leewood (Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments provide a medical device for implantation in a patient comprising a stent and a valve. The stent comprises a proximal region comprising a cylindrical shape having a first outer diameter in an expanded state, and a distal region comprising a cylindrical shape having a s...