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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Peter Lyon Harris, Liverpool, GB;
Thien Voon How, Liverpool, GB;
Assignee:
IMPRA, Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/00 ;
Abstract
A vascular prosthesis comprising a tube of material other than autologous vascular tissue but considered/approved as safe and supple enough for use instead of such tissue, the tube having an end formation for surgical connection directly to an opening formed in an artery, the end formation serving to promote, at that end and/or within the direct connection and in response to normally pulsed blood flow, localized movement of blood having a non-laminar nature with a shear stress inducing relation to receiving arterial wall.