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US 2021/0196486 A1Published application
Medical stents
AssigneeBoston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
InventorMARTYN G. FOLAN
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Abstract
An implantable stent may include a braided tubular member formed of braided wires and including radially outward wire segments crossing over and positioned radially outward of radially inward wire segments at a plurality of crossover points. Also, the radially outward wire segments may be coated with a coating and the radially inward wire segments may be uncoated and devoid of the coating.
Claims20
An implantable stent comprising:
- a braided tubular member formed of a plurality of braided wires, the braided tubular member including a plurality of radially outward wire segments crossing over and positioned radially outward of a plurality of radially inward wire segments at a plurality of crossover points;
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- a coating extending only partially around a circumference of the radially outward wire segments at the crossover points.
An implantable stent comprising:
- a braided tubular member formed of a plurality of braided wires, the braided tubular member including a plurality of radially outward wire segments crossing over and positioned radially outward of a plurality of radially inward wire segments at a plurality of crossover points;
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- a coating extending only partially over the plurality of braided wires forming coated and uncoated portions, wherein the uncoated portions include the radially inward wire segments located at the crossover points.
An implantable stent comprising:
- a braided tubular member formed of a plurality of braided wires, the braided tubular member including a plurality of radially outward wire segments crossing over and positioned radially outward of a plurality of radially inward wire segments at a plurality of crossover points;
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- a coating extending only partially over the plurality of braided wires forming coated and uncoated portions, wherein each of the plurality of braided wires includes coated portions of the radially outward wire segments alternating with uncoated portions of the radially inward wire segments along a length of the braided wire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.