Patent 10420636 was granted and assigned to Cook Medical on September, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Described are stent graft devices and methods for their preparation and use. Expandable stent graft devices of the invention include inner and/or outer coverings uniquely applied and associated with surfaces of the stent. In certain described embodiments, bioremodelable materials such as ECM materials are vacuum pressed onto and/or around elements of a stent in the manufacture of a stent graft device.