US Patent Issued to Medtronic Vascular on Oct. 7 for "Modular multibranch stent assembly and method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,737, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Medtronic Vascular Inc. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Modular multibranch stent assembly and method" was invented by Keith Perkins (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Zachary Borglin (Petaluma, Calif.), Mark Stiger (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Julie Benton (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Steven Claessens (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Travis Rowe (Santa Rosa, Calif.) and Mark Young (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stent graft assembly including a main body and a branch coupling extending radially from the main body. A proximal end of the single branch stent device is configured to seal in an ascending portion of an aorta. ...