ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,346, issued on April 29, was assigned to MONARCH BIOSCIENCES INC. (Los Angeles).
"Thin-film micromesh and related methods" was invented by Colin Kealey (Los Angeles) and Vikas Gupta (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Thin-film mesh for medical devices and related methods are provided. The thin-film mesh may include slits to be expanded into pores, and the expanded thin-film mesh may be used as a cover for a stent device. The thin-film mesh has a tube-shape and the slits may be angled with respect to a longitudinal axis of the tube-shape thin-film mesh. The angled slits allow for the thin-film mesh to expand in multiple dimens...