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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7455907 | Hydrophobic biologically absorbable coatings for drug delivery devices and methods for fabricating the same A polymer coating for medical devices based on polyorthoesters and methods for fabricating the coating are disclosed. ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7431959 | Method and system for irradiation of a drug eluting implantable medical device A method and system for modifying a drug eluting polymeric substrate for an implantable device, such as a stent, is disclosed. ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7404979 | Spin coating apparatus and a method for coating implantable devices A device for spin coating an implantable medical device, such as a stent, is disclosed. A method is also disclosed for spin coating a stent. ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7361726 | Poly(hydroxyalkanoate-co-ester amides) and agents for use with medical articles Polymers containing poly(hydroxyalkanoate-co-ester amides) and agents for use with medical articles are disclosed along with methods of fabricating medical articles comprising these polymers. The medical articles generally comprise an implantable substrate having a ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7335314 | Method of making an implantable medical device An implantable medical device, such as a stent or graft, having asperities on a designated region of its outer surface is disclosed. The asperities can serve to improve retention of one or more layers of a coating on the device and to increase the amount of coating ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7335265 | Apparatus and method for coating stents An apparatus for coating implantable medical devices, such as stents, is disclosed. A method of coating stents using the apparatus is also disclosed. The apparatus includes a barrier or barriers for isolating an area of the stent on which a composition for coating a... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7329366 | Method of polishing implantable medical devices to lower thrombogenecity and increase mechanical stability The present invention relates to a method of polishing an implantable medical device. The method may include positioning an implantable medical device on a support. At least a portion of a surface of the implantable medical device may include a polymer. A fluid may ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7273492 | Stent for treating vulnerable plaque An intravascular stent assembly for implantation in a body lumen, such as a coronary artery, is designed to treat a lesion with vulnerable plaque by reducing the fibrous cap stresses. The stent includes distal, proximal, and center sections where the center section ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 5459700 | Manual timer control for inflation device A manually operable pressure switch is used to activate an inflation device in order to pressurize an inflatable member such as that found on a dilatation catheter. By operating the pressure switch, the physician simultaneously operates a timer which will... | 10/17/1995 |
