Slide-and-lock stent

US8292944B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• REVA Medical, LLC · US

Inventors

• Eric Schmid · San Diego, US
• John Nguyen · San Diego, US
• Steven C. Howard · San Diego, US
• Orlando Padilla · Laguna Niguel, US
• Andrew Morris · San Diego, US
• Robert F. Eisele · San Diego, US
• Joseph A. DiPari · Lemon Grove, US
• David G. Matsuura · Encinitas, US
• Philip J. Simpson · Encinitas, US
• Walter Dean Gillespie · Carlsbad, US
• Daniel Moore · Jefferson, US
• Thomas R. Jackson · Village of La Jolla, US
• Joan Zeltinger · Encinitas, US
• Keith Esser · San Diego, US
• Donald K. Brandom · Davis, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 17, 2004
• Grant date: Oct 23, 2012
• Expiry date: Dec 20, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B33Y80/00
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention relates to an expandable stent comprising circumferentially adjacent modules. The modules comprise longitudinally adjacent slide-and-lock radial elements which permit one-way sliding of the radial elements from a collapsed diameter to an expanded/deployed diameter, but inhibit radial recoil from the expanded diameter.