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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:
Aug. 17, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2005
Applicants:
Jan Weber, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Dave J. Sogard, Edina, MN (US);
John Blix, Maple Grove, MN (US);
David L. Friesen, Otsego, MN (US);
Inventors:
Jan Weber, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Dave J. Sogard, Edina, MN (US);
John Blix, Maple Grove, MN (US);
David L. Friesen, Otsego, MN (US);
Assignee:
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/05 (2006.01); A61F 2/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A stent is adapted to be implanted into the lumen of a vessel. The stent includes struts and a resonating circuit tuned to the resonating frequency of a magnetic resonance imaging system. The resonant circuit is constructed of at least one inductor and at least one capacitor. The inductor is wound about at least one of the struts.