US Patent Issued to ReFlow Medical on Jan. 13 for "Stents having protruding features for anchoring" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,259, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ReFlow Medical Inc. (San Clemente, Calif.).

"Stents having protruding features for anchoring" was invented by John Fulkerson (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Isa Rizk (San Diego), Jihad Ali Mustapha (Ada, Mich.) and Teodoro S. Jimenez Jr. (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stent can include outwardly facing protruding features that facilitate engagement with a wall of a body vessel. The protruding features can deploy from a frame of the stent to extend radially outwardly. When deployed into a body vessel, the protruding features engage and anchor against the wall of the body...