Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.

Scimed Life Systems, Inc.

Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.

Boston Scientific Corporation

Jason Todd Lenz

Graig Leonard Kveen

Timothy Samuel Girton

Burns P Doran

James F Hemerick

Timothy J Ley

Arthur J Foster

Brendan Early Koop

Daniel J Gregorich

Richard J Olson

Joel P Grover

Linda L Evert

Loren J Simer, Jr

Lixiao Wang

Tracee E Eidenschink

John Jianhua Chen

Jonathan Swift Stinson

Richard Charles Gunderson

Anthony Ciro Vrba

Tracee E J Eidenschink

Richard L Goodin

Paul James Miller

Steven Paul Mertens

Daniel Keith Tomaschko

Todd H Turnlund

Katherine M Prindle

Samuel Robaina

Yiqun Wang

Liza J Davis

Frank A Musbach

Kim Robertson

Mirna A Slayhi

Cory Hitzman

Timothy L Ley

Steven P Mertens

Doran P Burns

Liza Davis

Daniel K Tomaschko

Yiqun Bruce Wang

A system includes a medical device lead including a connector at a proximal end of the lead, a conductor electrically connected to the connector at a proximal end of the conductor, and at least one electrode coupled to a distal end of the conductor. The system further includes a device securable to the proximal end of the lead including an inductive element. The device includes a port configured to receive the connector and position the inductive element around at least a portion of the connector.

Inductive element for providing MRI compatibility in an implantable  medical device lead

Inductive element for providing MRI compatibility in an implantable medical device lead

In one embodiment of the invention, a stent may be provided comprising a first undulating band having alternating peaks and troughs, a second undulating band having alternating peaks and troughs, a first substantially longitudinal connector extending between the first and second undulating bands and a second very short connector extending between the first and second undulating bands, the first connector substantially longer than the second very short connector.

Flexible and expandable stent

Medical devices that include micromachined hypotubes or that have themselves been micromachined can provide advantages in flexibility, strength and other desirable properties. Examples of such medical devices may include catheters such as guide catheters and balloon catheters. Such devices may also include dual shaft medical devices in which an outer shaft is reversibly lockable onto an inner shaft.

Micromachined medical devices

This invention relates to a method of providing a coating on a medical device, especially a dilatation balloon, which improves the durability of the balloon.

Protective coatings for medical devices

A stent for delivering therapeutic agents to a body lumen includes a plurality of circumferential serpentine bands with each band comprising a plurality of struts. At least one strut has at least one first well region and at least one second well region. The at least one first well region has a first thickness, the at least one second well region has a second thickness, the first thickness being greater than the second thickness. Each well region defines a well having a depth. At least some of the wells contain a therapeutic agent.

Drug-eluting stent

A stent with strut bands and connectors, wherein the strut bands have long and short struts with a junction positioned between the short struts. Each junction defines a reservoir, wherein the reservoirs of a strut band are substantially circumferentially aligned. The connectors each have arms, wherein each arm includes an opposing U-shaped link. The opposing links have a shared portion disposed between a peak on one strut band and a longitudinally adjacent trough of an adjacent strut band.

Stent

A stent comprises a plurality of serpentine bands. Each serpentine band has alternating peak regions and trough regions and extends about substantially the entire circumference of the stent. At least one of the serpentine bands has a spline extending therefrom toward a serpentine band adjacent thereto. Serpentine bands which are adjacent one another are connected one to the other.

Segmented spine

In one embodiment of the invention, a stent may be provided comprising a first undulating band comprising a series of alternating first peaks and first troughs and a second undulating band comprising a series of alternating second peaks and second troughs. The first undulating band has a first wavelength and a first amplitude and the second undulating band has a second wavelength and a second amplitude where the second amplitude is different from the first amplitude and the second wavelength is different from the first wavelength. A plurality of longitudinally oriented first connectors extend between the first peaks and second peaks.

A stent having variable thickness with improved radiopacity, MRI compatibility, radial stiffness, and flexibility and to the method of making such stents.

Stent with variable properties

A stent comprises a plurality of serpentine circumferential bands and a plurality of connector columns. Each connector column is located between two adjacent serpentine circumferential bands and comprises a plurality connector struts. Each connector strut is connected at one end to one serpentine circumferential band and at another end to another serpentine circumferential band. Each connector strut has step sections and at least one riser. Each step section extends substantially in a circumferential direction and each riser extends in a substantially longitudinal direction. The steps in a connector are connected to one another via a riser.

Stent with stepped connectors

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Maplewood, MN, United States of America

Jason Todd Lenz