ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,242, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Memory Metal Holland BV (Enschede, Netherlands).
"Tubing for manufacturing expandable devices" was invented by Petrus A. Besselink (Enschede, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intra-corporal medical device, a medical device and a method of making an intra-corporal medical device. In one form, the device is formed from one or more tubes with a non-axisymmetric cross-sectional profile such that tines formed in a relatively planar surface of such a device exhibit the ability to accept larger deformations that will have improved mechanical properties, including a lower tendency to buckle ...