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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2022
Efemoral Medical, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Lewis B. Schwartz, Lake Forest, IL (US);
Ivan Tzvetanov, Mountain View, CA (US);
Alex Estrada, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Eugene Michal, San Anselmo, CA (US);
Abstract
Devices, systems, and methods are provided to maintain or enhance blood flow through the blood vessel as a stent. The balloon-expandable, bioresorbable, vascular stent elements are configured to be implanted in the blood vessel are described herein. The stent element comprises a scaffold and coating layer comprising a bioresorbable structural polymer. A therapeutic drug is provided both on a scaffold coating and integrated within the structural polymer of the scaffold. The method of making the bioresorbable, vascular stent includes an additive manufacturing process described herein.