Patent 8048028 was granted and assigned to Boston Scientific on November, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The invention relates to medical balloons, and methods of modifying said balloons by forming a void pattern in their exterior surfaces and filling the voids with a material, such as a fiber or a nanomaterial (e.g., nanotubes, such as carbon nanotubes) and a matrix material, e.g., a polymer.