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US 12,370,067 · App. 17/082,693 · Granted Jul 29, 2025

Stent including anti-migration capabilities

Inventors: Travis Henchie (Worcester, MA); Shawn Ryan (Littleton, MA)
Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
A61F2/82A61F2/0077A61F2002/825A61F2210/0076
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Patent No.
US 12,370,067
App. No.
17/082,693
Granted
Jul 29, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A medical device for treating a body lumen, such as a medical stent, includes an expandable scaffold configured to shift from a radially collapsed state to a radially expanded state. The stent includes a coating disposed along the outer surface of the expandable scaffold in which a portion of the coating includes a plurality of anti-migration members and one or more preferential separation regions. Each preferential separation region is configured to permit first and second regions of the coating to separate from one another along the preferential separation region therebetween as the expandable scaffold shifts from the radially collapsed state to the radially expanded state.

Claims (31)

1. A medical stent for treating a body lumen, comprising:

an expandable scaffold including a first end region, a second end region opposite the first end region and an outer surface, wherein the expandable scaffold is configured to shift from a radially collapsed state to a radially expanded state; and

a coating disposed along the outer surface of the expandable scaffold, wherein at least a portion of the coating includes a plurality of anti-migration elements, and wherein the coating further includes a separation region, the separation region positioned between a first region of the coating and a second region of the coating;

wherein the separation region is configured to permit the first region of the coating to separate from the second region of the coating along the separation region therebetween as the expandable scaffold shifts from the radially collapsed state to the radially expanded state, wherein the separation of the first region of the coating from the second region of the coating creates a plurality of apertures in the coating along the separation region, wherein the plurality of apertures shift between a closed configuration when the expandable scaffold is in the radially collapsed state to an open configuration when the expandable scaffold is in the radially expanded state;

wherein the coating comprises a base coating disposed along the expandable scaffold and a micro-pattern coating layer disposed over the base coating, the micro-pattern coating layer being formed from the plurality of anti-migration elements and including a wall, the separation region extending within the wall of the micro-pattern coating layer, wherein at least some of the plurality of apertures in the separation region do not extend through the base coating.

2. The medical stent of claim 1 , wherein the separation region is configured to prevent the coating from separating from the outer surface of the expandable scaffold when the expandable scaffold shifts from the radially collapsed state to the radially expanded state.

3. The medical stent of claim 1 , wherein at least some of the plurality of apertures extend entirely through the wall of the micro-pattern coating layer and the base coating.

4. The medical stent of claim 1 , wherein the wall of the micro-pattern coating layer has a radial thickness defined between an outermost surface of the wall and an outer surface of the base coating, wherein at least some of the plurality of apertures extend only partially through the radial thickness of the wall of the micro-pattern coating layer.

5. The medical stent of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of apertures are aligned along a longitudinal axis of the stent.

6. The medical stent of claim 5 , wherein the alignment of the plurality of apertures of the separation regions create a perforated separation region.

7. The medical stent of claim 1 , wherein the separation region extends continuously along a longitudinal axis of the stent from the first end region to the second end region.

8. The medical stent of claim 7 , wherein the separation region extends linearly along the longitudinal axis of the stent.

9. The medical stent of claim 7 , wherein the preferential separation region extends non-linearly along the longitudinal axis of the stent.

10. The medical stent of claim 1 , wherein the expandable scaffold includes a plurality of interwoven filaments, and wherein the plurality of filaments are arranged to define a plurality of cells therebetween, and wherein the separation region is positioned within one of the plurality of cells.

11. A medical stent for treating a body lumen, comprising:

an expandable scaffold including a first end region, a second end region opposite the first end region and an outer surface, wherein the expandable scaffold is configured to shift from a radially collapsed state to a radially expanded state; and

a coating disposed along the outer surface of the expandable scaffold, wherein at least a portion of the coating includes a plurality of anti-migration elements disposed thereon;

wherein the coating further includes a plurality of separation regions, each of the separation regions spaced apart from one another, and wherein each of the separation regions is configured to define an aperture in the coating that shifts from a closed configuration to an open configuration when the expandable scaffold shifts from the radially collapsed state to the radially expanded state;

wherein the coating comprises a base coating disposed along the expandable scaffold and a micro-pattern coating layer disposed over the base coating, the micro-pattern coating layer being formed from the plurality of anti-migration elements and including a wall, the separation region extending within the wall of the micro-pattern coating layer, wherein the aperture in at least some of the plurality of separation regions does not extend through the base coating.

12. The medical stent of claim 11 , wherein each of the separation regions is positioned between a first region of the coating and a second region of the coating, and wherein each of the separation regions is configured to permit the first region of the coating to separate from the second region of the coating along each separation region therebetween as the expandable scaffold shifts from the radially collapsed state to the radially expanded state.

13. The medical stent of claim 11 , wherein each of the plurality of separation regions is configured to prevent the coating from separating from the outer surface of the expandable scaffold when the expandable scaffold shifts from the radially collapsed state to the radially expanded state.

14. The medical stent of claim 11 , wherein the aperture of each of the preferential separation regions extends entirely through the wall of the micro-pattern coating layer.

15. The medical stent of claim 11 , wherein the wall of the micro-pattern coating layer has a radial thickness defined between an outermost surface of the wall and an outer surface of the base coating, wherein the aperture of at least some of the separation regions extends only partially through the radial thickness of the wall of the micro-pattern coating layer.

16. The medical stent of claim 11 , wherein each of the separation regions extends continuously along a longitudinal axis of the stent from the first end region to the second end region.

17. The medical stent of claim 11 , wherein each of the separation regions are spaced apart from one another along a longitudinal axis of the stent.

18. The medical stent of claim 11 , wherein the expandable scaffold includes a plurality of interwoven filaments, and wherein the plurality of filaments are arranged to define a plurality of cells therebetween, and wherein each of the separation regions is positioned within a corresponding cell of the plurality of cells.

19. A medical stent, comprising:

an expandable scaffold including a first end region, a second end region opposite the first end region and an outer surface, wherein the expandable scaffold is configured to shift from a radially collapsed state to a radially expanded state, and wherein the expandable scaffold includes a plurality of interwoven filaments defining a plurality of cell openings located therebetween; and

a coating disposed along the outer surface of the expandable scaffold, wherein at least a portion of the coating includes a micro-pattern, the micro-pattern including a plurality of individual spaced-apart anti-migration elements;

wherein the micro-pattern is disposed within the cell openings between the interwoven stent filaments;

wherein the coating comprises a base coating disposed along the expandable scaffold and a micro-pattern coating layer disposed over the base coating, the micro-pattern coating layer being formed from a single monolithic structure including a base layer with the plurality of individual spaced-apart anti-migration elements extending radially therefrom, wherein the base coating and the micro-pattern coating layer are separate layers formed from different materials.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 28, 2020
From: HENCHIE, TRAVIS; RYAN, SHAWN
To: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
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Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62927391 · Oct 29, 2019
Related Publication 20210121306A1 · Apr 29, 2021
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