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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2015
Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rommel Lumauig, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen D. Pacetti, San Jose, CA (US);
Ni Ding, San Jose, CA (US);
Joel Harrington, Redwood City, CA (US);
Xiao Ma, Santa Clara, CA (US);
James P. Oberhauser, Saratoga, CA (US);
Jill McCoy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chad J. Abunassar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Senthil Eswaran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Diem Ta, San Jose, CA (US);
Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods are disclosed including thermally processing a scaffold to increase the radial strength of the scaffold when the scaffold is deployed from a crimped state to a deployed state such as a nominal deployment diameter. The thermal processing may further maintain or increase the expansion capability of the scaffold when expanded beyond the nominal diameter.