US Patent Issued to The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, VisionAir Solutions on Dec. 2 for "Enhanced stock stents based on population modeling of tubular anatomical structures" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,534, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland) and VisionAir Solutions LLC (Cleveland).

"Enhanced stock stents based on population modeling of tubular anatomical structures" was invented by Kevin Libertowski (Cleveland), Keith Grafmeyer (Cleveland), Thomas Gildea (Cleveland Heights, Ohio), William Flickinger (Wadsworth, Ohio) and Brian Beckrest (Lakewood, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies as described herein are directed towards generating optimized stent designs for treatment of tubular anatomical structures. In an exemplary computing system, the system obtains imaging data comprisin...