Bifurcated stent

US6695877B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Scimed Life Systems, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Gregory G. Brucker · Minneapolis, US
• Todd Hall · Goshen, US
• Enrique Malaret · Plymouth, US
• David Byrd · Louisville, US
• Gerald Hubbs · Louisville, US
• Gregory R. Furnish · Lawrenceville, US
• Josh Barber · Louisville, US
• Indaka Gunasekara · Louisville, US
• Benjamin E. Morris · Louisville, US
• Valerie Futral · Louisville, US
• Sava A. Chernomordik · Louisville, US
• William C. Mers Kelly · Crestwood, US
• William A. Reuss, Jr. · Louisville, US
• Simon Furnish · New York, US
• Michael W. Wilson · Crestwood, US
• Hacene Bouadi · Palo Alto, US
• John C. Muskivitch · Cupertino, US
• Matthew L. Pease · Mountain View, US
• David A. Rahdert · San Francisco, US
• Travis Rowe · Santa Rosa, US
• Gregory M. Ruhf · Cupertino, US
• Brandon G. Walsh · Syracuse, US
• Claude Vidal · Lompoc, US
• Thomas Banks · Lompoc, US
• Russ Redmond · Goleta, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 26, 2002
• Grant date: Feb 24, 2004
• Expiry date: Feb 26, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61F2002/9583
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A bifurcated stent comprises a first stent section and a second stent section. Each stent section is expandable from a predeployed state to a deployed state independently from one another. The second stent section having an end engaged to a receiving region of the first stent section. In the deployed state the first stent section defines a primary flow path and the second stent section defines a secondary flow path in fluid communication with the first flow path. At least a portion of one or both the first stent section and second stent section is constructed from a wire member.