Patent ID: 6997947

Claim:
A method for making an expandable endoluminal device comprising at least one superelastic section and at least one plastically deformable section, the superelastic section and plastically deformable section comprising a continuous metallic structure in which the superelastic section has been thermally treated differently than the plastically deformable section, the method comprising: selecting a metallic member to be used for constructing the expandable endoluminal device; heat treating at least a first portion of the metallic member in a first annealing step under a first set of conditions to set a shape memory for at least the first portion; heat treating one or more second portions of the metallic member in a second annealing step under a second set of conditions to make the second portions plastically deformable; and forming the metallic member into the expandable endoluminal device such that the first portion comprises the superelastic section and the second portion comprises the plastically deformable section.