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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2015
Applicant:
Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Diem Ta, San Jose, CA (US);
Chad Abunassar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Senthil Eswaran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Zhicheng Lin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
ABBOTT CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/82 (2013.01); A61F 2/915 (2013.01); A61F 2/844 (2013.01); A61F 2/958 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/915 (2013.01); A61F 2/844 (2013.01); A61F 2/958 (2013.01); A61F 2002/91583 (2013.01); A61F 2210/0004 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0098 (2013.01);
Abstract
A thin-walled scaffold includes a radiopaque marker connected to a link. In a first example, the marker is retained on the strut by a head at one or both ends by swaging. In a second example of a thin-walled scaffold the link is modified to avoid interference during crimping. In a third example a distal end of the thin-walled scaffold is modified to improve deliverability of the thin-walled scaffold. These features are combined in a fourth example.