Patent ID: 9649209
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: A61F,A61K,A61L,B23K,B29C,B29K,B29L,Y10T

Claim:
1. A stent, comprising: a metallic body having an undulating stent pattern which includes a plurality of longitudinally spaced apart peaks and a plurality of longitudinally spaced apart valleys aligned along a stent longitudinal axis, wherein a space is formed between each longitudinally spaced apart peak and a space is formed between each longitudinally spaced apart valley; an outer layer of a polymeric material covering an outer surface of the metallic body; and an inner layer of a polymeric material covering an inner surface of the metallic body, wherein the inner layer and outer layer of polymeric material are directly joined to one another in the spaces between the longitudinally spaced valleys and longitudinally spaced peaks of the metallic body to form a plurality of polymeric links which extend in the spaces between the longitudinally spaced peaks and longitudinally spaced valleys, the polymeric links being sized and shaped to create areas devoid of any polymeric material in the spaces formed on the stent body.