US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brigham and Women's Hospital on Dec. 16 for "Kirigami-inspired stents for sustained local delivery of therapeutics" (Canadian, Iranian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,200, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston).

"Kirigami-inspired stents for sustained local delivery of therapeutics" was invented by Sahab Babaee (Arlington, Mass.), Yichao Shi (Burlington, Canada), Saeed Abbasalizadeh (Tehran, Iran), Robert Langer (Newton, Mass.) and Carlo Traverso (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a kirigami-inspired injectable stent system. The stent systems and methods enable radial/circumferential and longitudinal delivery of an extended release of therapeutics within tubular...