US Patent Issued to Medtronic Vascular on July 29 for "Stent-graft prosthesis with pressure relief channels" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,037, issued on July 29, was assigned to Medtronic Vascular Inc. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Stent-graft prosthesis with pressure relief channels" was invented by Jeffery Argentine (Petaluma, Calif.), Mitchell Springer (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Adam Shipley (San Rafael, Calif.) and Mark Stiger (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stent-graft prosthesis for implantation within a body vessel includes a graft material, a frame, and a channel. The graft material includes a proximal end, a distal end, and a graft lumen extending between the proximal and distal ends. The frame is coupled to the graft material. The channel is configur...