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US 9,788,980 B2Granted
Method for making grooves on a luminal surface of an intravascular stent
AssigneeVactronix Scientific, LLC
InventorsChristopher E. Banas, Julio C. Palmaz, Eugene A. Sprague
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Abstract
The invention relates to methods and apparatus for manufacturing intravascular stents wherein the intravascular stent has its inner surface treated to promote the migration of endothelial cells onto the inner surface of the intravascular stent. In particular, the inner surface of the intravascular stent has at least one groove formed therein.
Claims10
A method of manufacturing an intravascular stent comprising the steps of:
- forming an intravascular stent having a longitudinal axis;
- an inner surface and an outer surface;
- and forming at least one groove on the inner surface of the stent by a thermal process, wherein the at least one groove is disposed in a cross-hatched manner, substantially parallel with the longitudinal axis, or substantially perpendicular with the longitudinal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.