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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2015
Applicant:
Cook Medical Technologies Llc, Bloomington, IN (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Cook Medical Technologies LLC, Bloomington, IN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/88 (2006.01); A61F 2/90 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/88 (2013.01); A61F 2/90 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0075 (2013.01); A61F 2240/001 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0098 (2013.01);
Abstract
A stent and method for treating an end of a pre-woven stent is provided. The method includes providing a pre-woven stent including a plurality of sharp ends. A pair of wire portions that extend in opposite helical directions around the stent are bent and woven into the stent to define a pair of overlapping crown portions. When the wires are woven into the stent a double weave portion of the stent is defined. The wires can be cut to define tail portions that are removed from the stent, leaving a single crown portion. The sharp ends can be alternatively treated by curving the ends to define rounded looped ends.