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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2019
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Paul Laeseke, Madison, WI (US);
Michael Woods, Madison, WI (US);
Emily Rae Foran, Madison, WI (US);
Will Robert Flanigan, Madison, WI (US);
Alexandra Nicol Doersch, Madison, WI (US);
Brett Conor Struthers, Madison, WI (US);
Joseph Alexander Ashley, Madison, WI (US);
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to methods and/or apparatuses involving the deployment and coupling of catheters. As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments, each of first and second catheters extend from a proximal end to a distal end and has a magnet. The catheters may be deployed, and the distal ends of the respective catheters can be aligned and connected via magnetic coupling of the magnets to one another. A shaft structure is configured and arranged to extend within the first catheter and into the second catheter, through the connected distal ends of the respective catheters.