US Patent Issued to EFEMORAL MEDICAL on May 20 for "Absorbable intravascular devices that shorten upon expansion creating space for vascular movement" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,414, issued on May 20, was assigned to EFEMORAL MEDICAL INC..

"Absorbable intravascular devices that shorten upon expansion creating space for vascular movement" was invented by Lewis B. Schwartz (Lake Forest, Ill.), Ivan Tzvetanov (Mountain View, Calif.) and Alex Estrada (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-element, vascular stent may be used to maintain or enhance patency of a blood vessel. The stent may be used in peripheral blood vessels, which may be long and/or tortuous. By using multiple, separate stent elements that are balloon expandable, the multi-element stent may be stronger than a traditional self-e...