US Patent Issued to JMT Medical on Oct. 28 for "Devices and methods for bile duct surgery" (Montana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,844, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to JMT Medical Inc. (Billings, Mont.).

"Devices and methods for bile duct surgery" was invented by Jeffrey Justin Rentz (Billings, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and kits are presented that allow for simplified stent placement and stent retention in a biological vessel other than a blood vessel, and especially biliary stent placement in an antegrade manner. The devices and methods advantageously allow for shortened imaging and stent placement time, and substantially improve tolerability and/or retention of the stent in the vessel, and in further beneficial aspects, contempl...