US Patent Issued to THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM, SHAPE MEMORY MEDICAL on March 18 for "Vascular prosthesis for leak prevention during endovascular aneurysm repair" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,500, issued on March 18, was assigned to THE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (College Station, Texas) and SHAPE MEMORY MEDICAL INC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Vascular prosthesis for leak prevention during endovascular aneurysm repair" was invented by Duncan J. Maitland (College Station, Texas), Todd L. Landsman (San Jose, Calif.), John Horn (Bryan, Texas), Landon Nash (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Chung Yeh (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes a process for treating an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) endoleak with a shape memory polymer (SMP) foam device. First, a bifurcated stent graft is placed within the an...