US Patent Issued to Cook Medical Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Self expanding stent and method of loading same into a catheter" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,509, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Cook Medical Technologies LLC (Bloomington, Ind.).

"Self expanding stent and method of loading same into a catheter" was invented by Richard A. Swift (South Bend, Ind.), Sam C. Mullins (County Limerick, Ireland) and Stephen T. Clancy (County Clare, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stent comprises a framework that includes a sequence of cells that each occupy a discrete segment of the stent length, and each of the cells includes a plurality of struts with ends connected at respective vertices. An adjacent pair of the cells are attached to one another by a plurality of T-bars that each in...