US 12,290,460 B2
Stent and associated systems and methods
James Quinn, Galway (IE); Ryan Desmond Lynch, Roscommon (IE); Gerard Duignan, Galway (IE); Darren Gerard Curran, Galway (IE); Sean P Fleury, Princeton, MA (US); and Peter L Dayton, Brookline, MA (US)
Assigned to BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed by BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed on Apr. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/732,106.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/181,618, filed on Apr. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0346998 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. A61F 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61B 17/11 (2006.01); A61F 2/04 (2013.01)
CPC A61F 5/0079 (2013.01) [A61B 17/0401 (2013.01); A61B 17/1114 (2013.01); A61F 5/0089 (2013.01); A61F 2002/045 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for regulating flow of materials through a body passage, said device comprising:
a support structure having an open proximal end and an open distal end, wherein a lumen is defined through said support structure extending between said open proximal end and said open distal end;
a mesh element extending across the open proximal end of said support structure and having openings therethrough selected to control flow of materials through said lumen; and
a plurality of fasteners coupling a periphery of said mesh element to the open proximal end of said support structure.