MUMBAI, India, Oct. 24 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202548039148 A) filed by T. G. Medical Inc., Tokyo, on April 23, for 'stent.'

Inventor(s) include Shobayashi, Yasuhiro; and Miki, Kohei.

The application for the patent was published on Oct. 24, under issue no. 43/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "This invention relates to a stent having a large surface area and excellent shape-following property and diameter reducibility to a vascular structure. A stent 1 which is inserted into a catheter and extruded from the catheter into a blood vessel to dilate a blood vessel, wherein the stent is equipped with a irst stent body 10 in which a plurality of irst cells comprising struts arranged in a frame shape are spread in the circumferential direction and are contiguous in the central axial direction and a second stent body 20, interpolated into the irst stent body, in which a plurality of second cells comprising struts arranged in a frame shape are spread in the circumferential direction and are contiguous in the central axial direction, and, in a state in which the second stent body 20 is interpolated into the irst stent body 10, the intersecting portions of the second cells are arranged in the hole portions of the irst cells and the irst stent body 10 and the second stent body 20 are not connected to each other in the radial direction."

The patent application was internationally filed on Sept. 06, 2021, under International application No.PCT/JP2021/032691.

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