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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:
Sep. 15, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 08, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Steven R Bacich, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Tuoc Tan Nguyen, Westminster, CA (US);
Assignee:
Imagyn Medical Inc., Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
600104 ; 600114 ; 604280 ;
Abstract
A catheter comprising an elongated catheter body having a distal end and an elongated flexible guidewire having proximal and distal ends. The guidewire includes a rounded enlargement between the ends of the guidewire. The guidewire is mounted on the catheter body for movement longitudinally relative to the catheter body between a first position in which the rounded enlargement is adjacent the distal end of the catheter body and a second position in which the rounded enlargement is located distally of the position the rounded enlargement occupies in the first position.