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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2020
Versono Medical Limited, Galway, IE;
Finbar Dolan, Galway, IE;
Hugh O'Donoghue, Galway, IE;
Ivan Mooney, Galway, IE;
Pat Connolly, Galway, IE;
Jim Smedley, Galway, IE;
Brian Tarpey, Galway, IE;
Versono Medical Limited, Galway, IE;
Abstract
An endovascular apparatus for crossing through an obstruction in a blood vessel comprises: an elongate endovascular element such as a wire; an ultrasonic transducer, mechanically coupled to the endovascular element for ultrasonically exciting a distal tip portion thereof to facilitate the crossing through the obstruction, and one or more damping features, mechanically coupled to the endovascular element to attenuate lateral displacement of the endovascular element at positions away from the distal tip portion.