Abstract: A coronary stent with one or more side ports that pierce the arterial wall to provide direct blood flow to the adjacent myocardium while simultaneously supporting the stented artery.
Abstract: Techniques used in obtaining information in parallel from one or more server systems as requested by a client computer system are disclosed. Multiple requests for information from one or more server systems are made in parallel providing information to the client system asynchronously rather than using a sequential synchronous programming technique.
Abstract: In order to test whether a diamond has had a layer of synthetic diamond deposited thereon, it is irradiated with high energy ultraviolet radiation to cause emission of luminescence, the luminescence intensity produced by different zones of the diamond being measured and compared. In one embodiment an integrating enclosure (15) is used and the diamond (13) is mounted on a rotatable mount (14).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 27, 1998
Date of Patent:
January 11, 2000
Assignee:
Gersan Establishment
Inventors:
Christopher Mark Welbourn, Martin Phillip Smith, James Gordon Charters Smith, Paul Martyn Spear, Philip Maurice Martineau, Martin Cooper