Patent 7083642 was granted and assigned to Avantec Vascular on August, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention provides improved stents and other prostheses for delivering substances to vascular and other luminal and intracorporeal environments. In particular, the present invention provides for therapeutic capable agent eluting stents with minimized undesirable loss of the therapeutic capable agent during expansion of the stent.