Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Highly convertible endolumenal prostheses and methods of manufacture
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Application No.: US12148895Application Date: 2008-04-22
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Publication No.: US08372325B2Publication Date: 2013-02-12
- Inventor: Michael S. Williams , Robert S. Langer , Yadong Wang
- Applicant: Michael S. Williams , Robert S. Langer , Yadong Wang
- Applicant Address: US NC Chapel Hill
- Assignee: SyneCor LLC
- Current Assignee: SyneCor LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US NC Chapel Hill
- Agent Deanna Shirley Williams
- Main IPC: B29C41/02
- IPC: B29C41/02 ; C08G63/16

Abstract:
Endolumenal prostheses that readily and extensively convert from a delivery configuration to a deployed configuration are disclosed. Endolumenal prostheses may be fabricated from one or more shape memory polymers, a high modulus elastomer, a polymer that is both elastomeric and exhibits shape memory behavior, a hydrogel, or some combination thereof. Polymers used to fabricate the prostheses are selectively synthesized to exhibit desired characteristics such as crystallinity, strain fixity rate, strain recovery rate, elasticity, tensile strength, mechanical strength, cross-linking density, extent physical cross-linking, extent of covalent cross-linking, extent of interpenetrating networks, rate of erosion, heat of fusion, crystallization temperature, and acidity during erosion. The endolumenal prostheses convert to the deployed configuration following delivery to a treatment site, upon exposure to an initiator either present within the body naturally or introduced into the body.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080281405A1 Highly convertible endolumenal prostheses and methods of manufacture Public/Granted day:2008-11-13
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