Patent ID: 7465316

Claim:
An implantable, flat-woven multi-petaled graft comprising: a hollow tubular woven portion having opposed first and second tubular ends, said woven portion having a number of warp yarns interlaced with a number of fill yarns in a flat-woven tubular woven pattern to define a seamless tubular woven portion having a flat-woven tubular diameter, and a bulbous woven portion having opposed first and second ends, the first bulbous end having a greater number of warp yarns interlaced with said fill yarns in a flat-woven tubular bulbous pattern contiguously woven from said second tubular end to provide a seamless bulbous woven portion, wherein the greater number of warp yarns are threadingly engaged with said fill yarns to define a flat-woven bulbous diameter; wherein said second end of said bulbous portion is scalloped with a plurality of petal-like projections seamlessly woven from said first bulbous end; wherein the petal-like projections are non-tubular, contoured, lobate-shaped woven sheets having non-connected distal portions.