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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2018
Applicant:
C. R. Bard, Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Inventors:
Martin Schlun, Munich, DE;
Achim Zipse, Baden-Baden, DE;
Thilo Wack, Tholey-Hasborn, DE;
Andreas Block, Lübeck, DE;
Assignee:
C. R. Bard, Inc., Franklin Lakes, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/915 (2013.01); A61F 2/91 (2013.01); A61F 2/89 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/915 (2013.01); A61F 2/89 (2013.01); A61F 2/91 (2013.01); A61F 2002/91508 (2013.01); A61F 2002/91516 (2013.01); A61F 2002/91525 (2013.01); A61F 2002/91533 (2013.01); A61F 2002/91558 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0054 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0069 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0029 (2013.01);
Abstract
A tubular prosthesis having at least two helical loops or discrete loops, linked by a bridge, includes at least two regular struts connected by a regular inflection point forming a regular gap between the regular struts and at least two stagger struts connected by a stagger inflection point forming a stagger gap wherein the regular gap has a size different from the stagger gap.