US Patent Issued to Vactronix Scientific on May 6 for "Stents having a hybrid pattern and methods of manufacture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,458, issued on May 6, was assigned to Vactronix Scientific LLC (San Antonio).

"Stents having a hybrid pattern and methods of manufacture" was invented by Armando Garza (San Jose, Calif.), Julio C. Palmaz (Napa, Calif.) and Michael Poor (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intravascular stent and method of making an intervascular stent having a hybrid pattern a. The hybrid pattern comprises a plurality of circumferentially self-expansible members comprising a plurality of interconnected, geometrically deformable closed cells, adjacent self-expansible members interconnected by a plurality of bridge members linking a firs...