ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,489, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Monarch Biosciences Inc..

"Spiral-based thin-film mesh systems 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: "A spiral-based thin-film mesh for medical devices and related methods is provided. The spiral-based thin-film mesh may be used as a stent cover for a stent device. The thin-film mesh may include a plurality of spirals. The spirals allow the thin-film mesh to expand omni-directionally. In one or more embodiments, the spirals may be logarithmic spirals, golden spirals, approximated golden spirals, box Phi spirals...