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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 1997
Filed:
May. 01, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jeff L Kraus, San Jose, CA (US);
Joseph R Shields, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nitin P Matani, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael J Horzewski, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Danforth Biomedical Incorporated, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128657 ; 604161 ;
Abstract
A proximal adaptor for an over-the-wire angioplasty catheter is disclosed which contains a retractable catheter slitting element and a releasable guidewire seizing element, both of which are controllable by a manually operated element or elements accessible from the exterior of the adaptor.