US Patent Issued to Medtronic Vascular on Oct. 21 for "Branching stent graft with mechanical interlock" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,003, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Medtronic Vascular Inc. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Branching stent graft with mechanical interlock" was invented by Haley King (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Adam Shipley (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Timothy Bertini (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Ana Zavala (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques of this disclosure generally relate to a modular assembly including first and second stent-grafts. The first stent-graft includes a body portion having a first diameter and a waist portion having a second diameter less than the first diameter. The waist portion is at a distal end of the first stent-gra...