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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2013
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Steve Lilburn, Princeton, MA (US);
Paul K. Norton, Lunenburg, MA (US);
Michael E. Zupkofska, Rockland, MA (US);
Louis Bedard, Leominster, MA (US);
Glenn Harding, Sutton, MA (US);
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Abstract
A method of braiding a stent and associated braided stent. The method includes braiding a number of elongate filaments around a mandrel using tensioned braiding carriers without spooling the filaments to the tensioned braiding carriers to form a braided stent having atraumatic ends. The braided stent includes a plurality of filaments being inter-braided at a braiding angle formed at crossing filament locations. The braiding angle may be substantially constant for all of the filament crossing locations.