Patent ID: 8465537

Claim:
A single strand stent system comprising; one or more single strand stent(s), each stent having at least one single strand twisted to form one or more open loops, the one or more open loops configured to be positioned around the lumen or passageway of a vessel, the at least one single strand including blunt distal and proximal ends, the at least one single strand further coated or encapsulated with a protein based material, the protein based material formed by a process including crosslinking a thermoplastic biocoacervate material that is administered to the one or more single strand stent(s); the thermoplastic biocoacervate material formed by a process including: adding one or more glycosaminoglycan(s) to a solution of one or more soluble or solubilized primary protein(s), wherein at least one of the one or more primary protein(s) is dissolved in one or more solvent(s) and includes collagen; minimally mixing the one or more glycosaminoglycan(s) with the one or more primary protein(s) and one or more solvent(s) to precipitate an amorphous coacervate that falls out of the solution as a protein body; extracting the protein body from the solution and forming the protein body into the thermoplastic biocoacervate material.