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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2018
Cook Medical Technologies, Llc, Bloomington, IN (US);
Emily Bell Gibbons, Bloomington, IN (US);
Ryan C. Bradway, Tacoma, WA (US);
Jarin A. Kratzberg, Lafayette, IN (US);
William S. Gibbons, Jr., Bloomington, IN (US);
Cook Medical Technologies LLC, Bloomington, IN (US);
Abstract
A stent is provided having a plurality of intersecting elongated members arranged to form a plurality of cells, the plurality of cells defining an elongated tube with a lumen running therethrough. The elongated tube has first, second, and third sections, the first section having a substantially first diameter and the third section having a substantially constant second diameter that is larger than the substantially constant first diameter of the first section, wherein the diameter of the second section transitions from the first diameter to the second diameter. Each of the plurality of cells within the first section have a pitch that is tighter than each of the plurality of cells within the second and third sections. In the second section, the plurality of intersecting elongated members includes a plurality of pairs of elongated members, wherein each pair of elongated members includes two adjacent elongated members twisted axially around each other.