Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.

Abbott Laboratories Corporation

Pablito Buan

Wayne E Cornish

Douglas H Gesswein

David H Burkett

David K Wrolstad

Robert C Esselstein

Philip S Yip

Ryan Grandfield

Aaron Baldwin

Kathern J Lind

Robert C Hazelden

Thomas Tokarchik, Iii

John Arthur Simpson

Travis Richard Yribarren

Mark Richardson

Emmanuel C Biagtan

Brandon Gosiengfiao

Sharon Wong

Carl P Frick

John J Nelson, Iii

Jessica M Saenz

Kathleen L Stillman

Robert J Peralta

Michelle E Alexander

Arthur R Tyre

A color coding is applied to medical guide wires by coloring portions of the guide wire to distinguish similar guide wires and guide wire portions from a particular manufacturer. The metallic elongate core can be colored using various methods such as electrochemical processes, sputtering, electroplating, and laser inducing microstructures to alter the surface characteristics of the elongate metallic core. Alternatively, the outer layer of the guide wire can be color coded by using non-standard colors or by introducing a colored band on the guide wire.

Color coded guide wire and methods of making same

A locking component for locking a medical device onto a guide wire. Such medical devices include, for example, an embolic filter assembly used to capture embolic material that may be created and released into a patient's vasculature during a stenting or angioplasty procedure. The embolic filter assembly tracks along the guide wire, and is delivered to a treatment site where it is locked in place and deployed. The locking component enables the filter assembly to lock onto any standard guide wire, and does not require a modified guide wire that has a specially-designed fitting or stop to accomplish the locking function.

Locking component for an embolic filter assembly

An intracorporeal device such as a guide wire with an elongated core having a radiopaque and optionally MRI-compatible markers embedded in a polymer sleeve disposed on a distal section of the elongated core is disclosed. The marker sleeve may be secured to a tapered portion of the distal core section or a constant diameter portion of the distal core section. Individual markers may be formed by radiopaque ribbons, bands, or strips, or may be in the form of a helical coil.

Guide wire with marker sleeve

The present invention is directed to a catheter style for shaping an ultrasound catheter for delivering ultrasonic energy to a treatment location within a patient's body. The stylet has sufficient stiffness, with a shaped distal end, to bring about the desired deflection at a catheter distal end to negotiate the catheter through tortuous anatomy during treatment.

Catheter stylet

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Temecula, CA, United States of America

Pablito Buan