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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2015
Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Stryker European Holdings I, Llc, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Siddharth Loganathan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Stephen Porter, Piedmont, CA (US);
STRYKER CORPORATION, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
STRYKER EUROPEAN HOLDINGS I, LLC, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Abstract
A method of manufacturing a tubular medical implant, such as a stent, includes introducing a liquid polymer material into an axial lumen of an elongate metal tube, the metal tube having an inner wall defining the lumen; allowing the polymer material to solidify within the metal tube lumen, the solidified polymer forming a high friction surface in contact with the inner wall of the metal tube; securing the metal tube, including the solidified polymer material therein, to a collet of a laser etching system; and laser etching a predetermined pattern of openings in the metal tube.