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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2017
Applicant:
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Inventors:
John A. Hingston, Framingham, MA (US);
Brian Gaffney, Rutland, MA (US);
Colby Harris, Weston, MA (US);
Assignee:
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/90 (2013.01); A61F 2/04 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/04 (2013.01); A61F 2/90 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0058 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0034 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0069 (2013.01); A61F 2240/001 (2013.01); A61F 2250/001 (2013.01);
Abstract
A stent may be actuatable between a delivery configuration and a deployed configuration. A stent may include one or more interwoven filaments each including a cross-sectional profile having at least one flattened portion. A flattened portion of a first filament portion of the one or more filaments may be positioned in contact with a flattened portion of a second filament portion of the one or more filaments.