Slide-and-lock stent
CA 2628491 C · Owner: Schmid, Eric V. · Inventors: Schmid, Eric V.; Morris, Andrew
Overview
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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.
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- Filed June 20, 2006 and granted October 6, 2015. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 20, 2026.
- Certificates of supplementary protection extend only drug patents, and it isn't classified as one.
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