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US 12,279,980 B2Granted
Flexible endoluminal device
AssigneeW. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
InventorStanislaw L. Zukowski
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Abstract
The present disclosure describes endoluminal devices, such as stents and stent grafts capable of being bent smoothly, with various benefits resulting therefrom.
Claims19
An endovascular treatment method, the method comprising:
- delivering an implantable device to a treatment site in a body lumen of a patient, the implantable device including a first ring having a first ring radial strength and a first diameter, a second ring adjacent to the first ring and having a second ring radial strength that is greater than the first radial strength, and an interconnection coupling the first ring and the second ring, wherein the first ring is adjacent to the second ring;
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- bending the implantable device from a non-nested configuration to a nested configuration including the first and second rings nesting with one another.
An endovascular treatment method, the method comprising:
- delivering an implantable device to a treatment site in a body lumen of patient, the implantable device including a first ring and a second ring adjacent to the first ring, each of the first ring and the second ring having the same diameter and different material properties so that the first ring and the second ring have differing radial strengths;
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- bending the implantable device to nest the first ring with the second ring.
An endovascular treatment method, the method comprising:
- delivering an implantable device to a treatment site in a body lumen of a patient, the implantable device including a first portion having a first ring and a second ring and a second portion having a third ring and a fourth ring;
- bending the first portion of the implantable device in a first direction so that the first ring nests with the second ring, the first ring and the second ring having differing radial strengths;
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- bending the second portion of the implantable device in a second direction so that the third ring nests with the fourth ring.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.