ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,764, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Fluid Biomed Inc. (Calgary, Canada).
"Bioabsorbable flow diverting scaffold" was invented by Alim P. Mitha (Calgary, Canada), John H. Wong (Calgary, Canada) and Mehdi Jamshidi (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to scaffolds made of a braid of bioabsorbable polymeric fibers for implantation within a lumen of a mammalian body and, in particular, to such scaffolds that are configured to divert blood flow from a pathology associated with a blood vessel."
The patent was filed on March 5, 2020, under Application No. 16/810,679.
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