Patents by Inventor Kyriacos Athansiou

Kyriacos Athansiou has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for stent deployment with enhanced delivery of bioactive agents
    Publication number: 20050171595
    Abstract: A stent for use in animals including humans is disclosed which includes unprotected and protected regions, each protected regions including a bioactive or biopenetrating agent containing therein where the protected regions are protected by the unprotected regions when the stent is in its undeployed state which has a smaller cross-sectional dimension than the stent in its deployed state. And when the stent is in its deployed state the bioactive or biopenetrating agent(s) are brought into direct and intimate contact with a tissue or interior of a blood vessel of an animal including a human.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2002
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Marc Feldman, Steven Bailey, C. Mauli Agrawal, Kyriacos Athansiou