| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 623100490 | Made of synthetic material | 36 |
| 20080215142 | CROSS-LINKING OF ANTIOXIDANT-CONTAINING POLYMERS - The present invention relates to methods for making cross-linked, oxidatively stable, and highly crystalline polymeric materials. The invention also provides methods of treating irradiation-cross-linked antioxidant-containing polymers and materials used therewith. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080294246 | Endoprosthesis with Select Ceramic Morphology - An endoprosthesis, such as a stent, includes a ceramic, such as IROX, having a select morphology and composition. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080300675 | POLYMERIC STENTS AND OTHER SURGICAL ARTICLES - A biocompatible non-memory expandable polymeric article selected from stents, implantable prostheses, catheters, other surgical articles and sealants for implantable prostheses, and which is at least in part biodegradable and includes a combination where hollow cylindrical element (2) is depicted in cutaway form to reveal helical element (4), terminated schematically at (6) and where a combination of at least one thermoplastic elastomeric component and at least one thermoplastic non-elastomeric component, the article being either porous articles or having the potential to become porous by action of body fluids in situ), the thermoplastic non-elastomeric component being present in such an amount as will provide mechanical strength and rigidity to the article when in an expanded mode. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080319540 | ANTI-MIGRATION FEATURES AND GEOMETRY FOR A SHAPE MEMORY POLYMER STENT - The present invention relates to a radially-expandable stent for implantation in a bodily passageway, being expandable from an initial unexpanded state to an expanded state, having an outer surface with a geometric pattern covering said outer surface to minimize migration after implantation. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090005862 | Stent and Method For Fabricating the Same - A stent includes a tubular stent body | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090036978 | Bioabsorbable coating with tunable hydrophobicity - The present invention relates to implantable medical devices coated with polymer having tunable hydrophobicity and their use in the treatment of vascular diseases. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090082856 | MEDICAL DEVICES HAVING NANOFIBER-TEXTURED SURFACES - According to an aspect of the present invention, medical devices are provided which comprise (a) a substrate having first and second surfaces, (b) a nanofiber-textured layer comprising nanofibers disposed over at least the first surface of the substrate and defining a nanotextured outer surface for the device, and (c) a therapeutic-agent-eluting layer comprising a therapeutic agent and a polymer disposed over at least the second surface of the substrate. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090118821 | ENDOPROSTHESIS WITH POROUS RESERVOIR AND NON-POLYMER DIFFUSION LAYER - An endoprosthesis such as a coronary stent includes a porous reservoir of drug, e.g., a porous layer formed of a ceramic and an overlayer formed of ceramic or metal for controlling elution of drug from the reservoir. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090118822 | STENT WITH EMBEDDED MATERIAL - An endoprosthesis such as a stent is composed of a metal or ceramic, such as Irox, embedded in the stent material. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090118823 | ENDOPROSTHESIS WITH POROUS RESERVOIR - An endoprosthesis such as a coronary stent includes a porous metal reservoir of drug, e.g. directly in the body of the stent. And a method of loading drug into the porous reservoir includes applying an electrical potential to the endoprosthesis. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090143856 | MEDICAL ARTICLES THAT STIMULATE ENDOTHELIAL CELL MIGRATION - A medical article that includes (a) an electronically conductive substrate having a specific conductivity of at least 1 μS/cm and (b) a galvanic couple that includes a first member and a second member arranged in sufficient proximity to each other to generate a localized electric field under physiological conditions. The first and second members are selected such that the galvanic couple exhibits an average plateau current density of at least 25 microamps/cm | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090171455 | BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS - According to an aspect of the present invention, polymers that have a plurality of well defined polymer segments linked by disulfide linkages are provided. When these disulfide linkages are broken, multiple smaller polymers of lower molecular weight are produced. According to another aspect of the present invention, implantable or insertable medical devices are provided that contain polymers that have a plurality of well defined polymer segments linked by disulfide linkages. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090248147 | Stent With Nucleating Agent - The use of nucleating agents to manufacture polymeric stents is disclosed. The resulting stents may have increased crystallinity, decreased crystal size, increased mechanical properties, and faster degradation times. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090319036 | Medical Devices Made From Polymers With End Group Modification For Improved Thermal Stability - Implantable medical devices and methods of forming thereof made from polymers with end groups providing improved thermal stability are disclosed. Implantable medical devices made from such polymers including stabilizing agents are additionally disclosed. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090326647 | MEDICAL DEVICES HAVING FLUOROCARBON POLYMER COATINGS - In accordance with various aspects of the invention, implantable and insertable medical devices are provided, which contain (a) a substrate and (b) a polymeric layer disposed on the substrate that comprises a fluorinated polymer to which is grafted an unsaturated monomer having at least one carbon double bond and at least one polar functional group. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100114304 | Medical Devices - Alloy compositions suitable for fabricating medical devices, such as stents, are disclosed. In certain embodiments, the compositions have small amounts of nickel, e.g., the compositions can be substantially free of nickel. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100222875 | METHOD FOR FORMING A POROUS STENT COATING - Methods for forming porous stent coatings are disclosed. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100228343 | PHASE-SEPARATED BIOCOMPATIBLE POLYMER COMPOSITIONS FOR MEDICAL USES - A variety of phase-separated biocompatible polymer compositions are described. In preferred embodiments the polymers are bioresorbable and/or biodegradable, and have desirable mechanical properties, such as fracture and/or fatigue toughness, that have previously not been a primary design criteria for such polymers. The polymer compositions are useful in a variety of medical applications, such as in the fabrication of medical devices. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20110015726 | Copolymer-Bioceramic Composite Implantable Medical Devices - Methods and devices relating to polymer-bioceramic composite implantable medical devices are disclosed. The bioceramic comprises calcium sulfate. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110022163 | Implantable Medical Device Comprising Copolymer Of L-Lactide With Improved Fracture Toughness - The present invention relates to implantable medical devices comprising a L-lactide-constitutional unit-containing copolymer having a wt % percent crystallinity of 40% or less. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110040373 | PTFE LAYERS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING - Thin PTFE layers are described having little or no node and fibril microstructure and methods of manufacturing PTFE layers are disclosed that allow for controllable permeability and porosity of the layers. In some embodiments, the PTFE layers may act as a barrier layer in an endovascular graft or other medical device. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110060403 | Stent and Method For Fabricating the Same - A stent includes a tubular stent body | 03-10-2011 |
| 20130144377 | Tubular Conduit - A tubular conduit is disclosed. The tubular conduit comprises a tubular portion made from a flexible material and an axially extending external helical formation located around the outside of the tubular portion. The external helical formation is for supporting the tubular portion. Optionally the tubular portion also comprises an axially extending internal helical protrusion, which imparts a helical flow to a fluid passing through the tubular portion. It is preferred that the tubular conduit is a vascular graft. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130197628 | COPOLYMER-MODIFIED NANOPARTICLES, ESPECIALLY FOR USE IN MEDICAL ARTICLES - Copolymer-modified nanoparticles produced by a process in which nanoparticles are ablated by laser radiation from a surface of a substrate in a liquid include an amphiphilic copolymer. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130317601 | MEDICAL DEVICE AMENEABLE TO FENESTRATION - The present invention is directed to a device that permits a permanent aperture to be formed in a wall, or other partition, of an implantable medical device. The present invention maintains the continuity and fluid-retaining properties of the implantable medical device by providing a breachable barrier material fully covering an opening delimited by a deformable framework. The invention is accessed with conventional interventional surgical instruments that disrupt and displace the barrier material. Following disruption of the barrier material, the opening is enlarged with surgical instruments to form a permanent framed aperture in the wall of the implantable medical device. The permanent framed aperture provides fluid communication across the wall of the implantable medical device. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130338762 | BIORESORBABLE POLYMER PERIPHERAL SCAFFOLDS MADE FROM BLOCK COPOLYMERS OF POLY(L-LACTIDE) AND HYDROPHILIC POLYMERS - Bioabsorbable scaffolds having high crush recoverability, high fracture resistance, and reduced or no recoil due to self expanding properties at physiological conditions are disclosed The scaffolds are made from a block copolymer of PLLA and a hydrophilic polymer. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20140018909 | Treatment to Render Implants Resistant to Diabetes - Disclosed is a medical device treated with a phenolic compound and a process for treating a device with the phenolic compound. For example, a collagen or elastin-based scaffold can be treated with pentagalloyl glucose (PGG). The treated scaffold can become resistant to glycoxidative stress associated with advanced glycation end products (AGEs) that are present in a hyperglycemic environments associated with diabetes mellitus. The treated scaffold can exhibit a reduced increase in stiffness as compared to an untreated scaffold. The treated scaffold can also exhibit reduced inflammation without negatively affecting the ability of the scaffold to remodel in vivo. | 01-16-2014 |
| 623100500 | Knitted | 1 |
| 20080319521 | Compressible Resilient Fabric, Devices, and Methods - A compressible resilient fabric can include a ground layer of knitted yarn, and a loop layer comprising a plurality of loops of yarn, each loop having a point knit into the ground layer. The fabric can be compressible from an non-compressed configuration, in which each loop has an apex extending substantially perpendicularly outward from the ground layer, into a compressed configuration, in which each loop is collapsed onto the ground layer. The fabric can further be resilient so as to substantially resume the non-compressed configuration when compression is relieved. The loop layer yarn can include a multifilament yarn having a high denier per filament ratio. The ground layer yarn can include a yarn shrinkable substantially more than the loop layer yarn. The loops can be densely knit so as to support the extension of the loops outward from the ground layer. | 12-25-2008 |
| 623100510 | Woven | 6 |
| 20090192597 | Surgical implant, method for the production and use thereof - A surgical implant is made from biocompatible fiber material as a woven textile fabric, in particular in the form of a vascular prosthesis, the woven fabric being so configured that its permeability to blood is so low that the blood impregnates the textile fabric upon implantation and seals it off by coagulating, but does not flow through it. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20140135906 | TAPERED TUBULAR IMPLANT FORMED FROM WOVEN FABRIC - A tubular woven implantable graft having a tapered section is provided. The graft comprises a first diameter and a second diameter and has a generally constant number of warp yarns per inch adjacent both the first diameter and the second diameter. A method for producing an implantable woven graft is also provided. The method includes weaving a first section having a first diameter and a tapered diameter tapering from the first diameter to a second diameter. During weaving of the tapered section a number of warp yarns are dropped from the weave and compressive forces are applied to the fabric to narrow the width of the fabric. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20150342721 | TAPERED TUBULAR IMPLANT FORMED FROM WOVEN FABRIC - A tubular woven implantable graft having a tapered section is provided. The graft comprises a first diameter and a second diameter and has a generally constant number of warp yarns per inch adjacent both the first diameter and the second diameter. A method for producing an implantable woven graft is also provided. The method includes weaving a first section having a first diameter and a tapered diameter tapering from the first diameter to a second diameter. During weaving of the tapered section a number of warp yarns are dropped from the weave and compressive forces are applied to the fabric to narrow the width of the fabric. | 12-03-2015 |
| 623100530 | Braided | 3 |
| 20080221671 | BRAIDED ENDOLUMINAL DEVICE HAVING TAPERED FILAMENTS - A stent comprising a plurality of continuous filaments braided together, at least one filament comprising a tapered filament having at least one first region having a first, relatively-larger cross-sectional area and at least one second region having a second, relatively-smaller cross-sectional area. The stent itself may have a tapered diameter, such as from one end to the other. A method for treating a lumen with the stent is also claimed | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080243244 | Metallic Endoprosthesis Compatible with Magnetic Resonance - A metallic endoprosthesis is provided and causes no significant artefacts on images taken by magnetic resonance tomography (MRT), as a result of the combination of the production materials with a special design, which permits an evaluation of the externally adjacent region and the lumen of the endoprosthesis by means of MRT. The endoprosthesis is made from a material with a magnetisability similar to human tissue. The design of the endoprosthesis is such that the members or wires of the endoprosthesis run extensively along the longitudinal axis of the endoprosthesis, without forming a closed circuit in a plane which is essentially perpendicular to the endoprosthesis longitudinal axis. Further variations of the endoprosthesis design are possible, which all offer a full compatibility with MR for the endoprosthesis | 10-02-2008 |
| 20090054972 | ATRAUMATIC STENT WITH REDUCED DEPLOYMENT FORCE, METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEPLOYING AND POSITIONING THE STENT - An implantable stent includes a plurality of elongate wires braided to form a hollow tubular structure having a tubular wall to define an interior surface and an exterior surface and having opposed open first and second ends, wherein the opposed open first and second ends are atraumatic ends The atraumatic ends of the stent are desirably free of any loose wire ends. The wires include composite wires to enhance visibility of the wires to provide improved external imaging of the wires in the body. The elongate composite wires of the stent may be metallic wires having an outer metallic portion including a first metal, such as nitinol, and an inner metallic core portion including a second metal, which is a radiopaque material, such as gold, barium sulfate, ferritic particles, platinum, platinum-tungsten, palladium, platinum-iridium, rhodium, tantalum or combinations thereof. | 02-26-2009 |
| 623100540 | Fiber | 2 |
| 20080306585 | THREAD FOR VASCULAR STENT AND VASCULAR STENT USING THE THREAD - A thread for forming a vascular stent implanted in vessels is provided. This thread is formed by melt-spinning a biodegradable polymer. On the surface of the thread, there is formed a layer of a drug-containing biodegradable polymer of the same sort as the biodegradable polymer constituting the thread. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20100268331 | PROCESS FOR SPINNING UHMWPE, UHMWPE MULTIFILAMENT YARNS PRODUCED THEREOF AND THEIR USE - The invention relates to a gel-spinning process for producing a high tensile strength ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) multifilament yarn comprising ultra-low dtex filaments, the process being characterized in that the draw ratio DR | 10-21-2010 |
