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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2022
Covidien Lp, Mansfield, MA (US);
Earl Howard Slee, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Thomas Wilder, Iii, Newport Bearch, CA (US);
Thomas Mccarthy, San Clemente, CA (US);
Mark Philip Ashby, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Sanjay Shrivastava, Irvine, CA (US);
Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US);
Abstract
Methods for restoring blood flow in occluded blood vessels using an apparatus having a self-expandable distal segment that is pre-formed to assume a superimposed structure in an unconstrained condition but can be made to take on a volume-reduced form making it possible to introduce it with a microcatheter and a push wire arranged at the proximal end, with the distal segment in its superimposed structure assuming the form of a longitudinally open tube and having a mesh structure of interconnected strings or filaments or struts. In a preferred embodiment, the distal segment has a tapering structure at its proximal end where the strings or filaments or struts converge at a connection point.