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Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2002

Filed:

Dec. 08, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:

Bandula Wijay, Friendswood, TX (US);

Assignee:

Other;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/06 ;
Abstract

A flexible stent is disclosed which reduced openings between rings by two alternative techniques. In the first instance, adjacent sinusoidally bending rings are nested to compact them closer together to reduce the opening sizes therebetween. In another embodiment, adjacent sinusoidal rings overlap each other to achieve the same effect. The assembly can be covered with a graft as a support therefor.


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Wijay, Bandula. (2002). Stent with nested or overlapping rings (U.S. Patent No. 6340366). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/6340366

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