Patent ID: 8864820

Claim:
An implantable medical device comprising: a plurality of struts that form an abluminal surface, a luminal surface, and side-walls between the abluminal and luminal surfaces, the struts including strut straight sections and a strut curved section, at least two of the strut straight sections joined by the strut curved section; and a nonuniform coating disposed over the side-walls, wherein each side-wall has a side-wall portion at one or more of the strut straight sections, and the nonuniform coating is disposed over the side-wall portions at the strut straight sections, wherein each of the side-walls has a side-wall portion at the strut curved section, and no material of the nonuniform coating is disposed over at least one of the side-wall portions at the strut curved section, and the nonuniform coating is disposed over an entirety of the abluminal surface at the curved section.