Patents Assigned to Advanced Coronary Technology, Inc.
  • Method of implanting a permanent shape memory alloy stent
    Patent number: 5545210
    Abstract: A permanent tissue supporting device, and a method for supporting tissue, wherein a stent-like member comprising a shape-memory alloy is permanently positioned to support the tissue of a tubular organ of a living body. The shape-memory alloy of the positioned stent-like member is in the martensitic state and exhibits a strain on a horizontal plateau of a stress-strain curve of the shape-memory alloy when permanently positioned in the tubular organ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1996
    Assignee: Advanced Coronary Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert L. Hess, John E. Bramfitt
  • Removable heat-recoverable tissue supporting device
    Patent number: 5197978
    Abstract: A tissue supporting device, preferably a stent-like member of shape-memory alloy, that is expandable by angioplasty apparatus or the like is subsequently removable by heat recovery to its original, non-expanded configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1993
    Assignee: Advanced Coronary Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert L. Hess