US Patent Issued to STRAIT ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES HOLDINGS (PTY) on Aug. 12 for "Expandable sleeved stent and method of making such stent" (South African Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,396, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to STRAIT ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES HOLDINGS (PTY) LTD (Cape Town, South Africa).

"Expandable sleeved stent and method of making such stent" was invented by Bruce De Jongh (Hout Bay, South Africa), Deon Bezuidenhout (Cape Town, South Africa), Peter Zilla (Cape Town, South Africa), Carel Sebastiaan Van Heerden (Meadowridge, South Africa) and Johan Coetzee (Newlands, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expandable sleeved stent comprises a stent and a sleeve. The stent comprises a tubular body with: first and second axial ends; a latticed peripheral wall; and at least two arms that, upon radial ...