Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

Dave McMorrow

Aiden Flanagan

Liliana Atanasoska

Tim O'Connor

Michael Stephen Austin

Yixin Xu

Anthony Malone

Michael Kuehling

Barry Heaney

Ben Arcand

Dominique Seidel

Gabriel Sobrino Serrano

Gabriel S Sobrino

Liam Ward

LiJuan He

Noel Hynes

Tim O'connor

John Kremer

Jan Weber

James Lee Iii Shippy

A method and device for coating a medical device, such as a stent, including rolling the stent against a ribbon or gravure roll impregnated with coating material. The ribbon and gravure roll may include a recessed pattern matching a strut pattern of the stent. The stent may also be rolled against a plate or cylinder while coating material is forced onto the stent through a pattern of holes or openings in the plate or cylinder matching a strut pattern of the stent.

System and method for coating a medical device

Endoprostheses (e.g., stents) containing adjustable surfaces are disclosed.

Endoprosthesis with adjustable surface features

The present invention relates to a coating assembly and methods that employ the coating assembly to control the thickness of therapeutic or other coatings delivered to a medical device during a coating process. In one embodiment the coating assembly may include a coating plate having a coating transfer surface and a shoulder having a first height, a mandrel moveable over the coating transfer surface, and a coating dispenser positioned in fluid communication with the coating transfer surface. The invention also includes a method of coating a medical device. This method may include placing a medical device on a mandrel, dispensing coating onto a coating transfer surface of a coating plate, moving the mandrel and the medical device over the coating transfer surface of the coating plate so that coating resident on the coating transfer surface transfers to an exposed surface of the medical device, and removing the medical device from the mandrel.

Film coating medical devices

An implantable stent comprising a first strut having an abluminal surface, and subluminal surface, and at least one side surface; a first depression formed in the abluminal surface; and a first support element at least partially disposed in the first depression; wherein at least a portion of the first support element extends beyond the abluminal surface of the first strut.

Stent with support element

Medical devices and related systems and methods.

Method of loading a medical endoprosthesis through the side wall of an elongate member

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Galway, Ireland

Dave McMorrow