Method of making a stent

A method for making a medical device, comprising:

• (a) providing a polymeric tube;
• (b) cutting a pattern into the tube by a laser, wherein the pattern includes:
• (i) a set of rings including a proximal end ring, a distal end ring opposing the proximal end ring, and middle rings positioned between the end rings, wherein each ring is associated with its direct neighboring ring by links, and wherein at least one pair of neighboring middle rings can be delineated, via corresponding links there between, into closed cells comprising a W-V shaped zone;
• (ii) the rings include struts and crowns, the struts fold towards and unfold away from each other at the crowns;
• (iii) at least one of the links being a marker link, the marker link having a first structure off a first side wall of the marker link for holding a first marker and a second structure off a second, opposite side wall of the marker link for holding a second marker, wherein the first and second structures are not longitudinally off-set from one another off of the marker link;
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• (iv) wherein the polymeric tube is cut by the laser such that the set of rings and links are shaped to have a minimum crimped diameter such that in the minimum crimped diameter, a pair of rings, between which the marker link resides, do not make contact with the first and second structures;
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• (c) placing the first and second markers in the structures and forming a stent;
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• (d) crimping the stent to a crimped diameter on a section of a catheter delivery assembly, such that the pair of rings, between which the marker link resides, do not make contact with the first and second structures in the crimped diameter, whereby a medical device comprising the stent and catheter is produced.