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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2009
Applicant:
Paul J. Thompson, New Hope, MN (US);
Inventor:
Paul J. Thompson, New Hope, MN (US);
Assignee:
Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/89 (2013.01); A61F 2/915 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/915 (2013.01); A61F 2002/91575 (2013.01); A61F 2002/9155 (2013.01); A61F 2/89 (2013.01); A61F 2210/0014 (2013.01); A61F 2002/91508 (2013.01); A61F 2002/91541 (2013.01); A61F 2002/91558 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0036 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0013 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0054 (2013.01);
Abstract
A stent may include a stent body having a stent axis. The stent body may include structural members defining openings through the stent body. The structural members are provided with regions having different widths. The relative sizes of the widths are selected to control the length of the stent body as the stent body is radially expanded from an undeployed orientation to a deployed orientation. In one embodiment, the regions having different widths are provided by tapering the widths of selected segments of the structural member.