US Patent Issued to THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION on Jan. 13 for "Endovascular grafts and methods for extended aortic repair" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,224, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION (Cleveland).

"Endovascular grafts and methods for extended aortic repair" was invented by Eric E. Roselli (Rocky River, Ohio), Kelly B. Emerton (Bay Village, Ohio), Justin Metcalf (Cleveland) and Brandon Gulker (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endovascular graft including a stent graft and a surgical graft is provided. The stent graft can include an elongated body having a collapsed and expanded configuration and include a frame structure covered by a compression sleeve that retains the elongated body in the collapsed configuration until deployment of...