US Patent Issued to Covidien on April 8 for "Anti-thrombogenic medical devices and methods" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,617, issued on April 8, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Anti-thrombogenic medical devices and methods" was invented by Xiaodong Ma (Acton, Mass.), Min-Shyan Sheu (Chelmsford, Mass.), Lincoln Eramo (Winchester, Calif.), John Wainwright (Foothill Ranch, Calif.) and Junwei Li (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for forming an expandable tubular body having a plurality of braided filaments including a first filament including platinum or platinum alloy and a second filament including cobalt-chromium alloy. The methods include applying a first phosphorylcholine material directly on the platinum or plati...