Flexible stent with elevated scaffolding properties

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8016874
APP PUB NO 20080294239A1
SERIAL NO

11805584

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A stent is disclosed that generates an elevated degree of scaffolding to a bodily vessel while retaining a highly flexible structure. In one embodiment, a stent includes an essentially tubular body formed by a web structure that is configured to expand from a contracted delivery configuration to an expanded deployed configuration and that is composed of a plurality of longitudinally adjacent web rings. Those web rings are formed by a plurality of web elements disposed circumferentially around the longitudinal axis of the stent and adjoined one to the other with a junction bend. Each junction bend in a first web ring is coupled to another junction bend in a neighboring ring with as-shaped connector, and the coupled junction bends are not longitudinally aligned but are instead laterally offset.

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  • ABBOTT LABORATORIES VASCULAR ENTERPRISES LIMITED

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Casey, Brendan J Galway, IE 6 167

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