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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:
May. 01, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 04, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Douglas N. Stephens, Davis, CA (US);
Assignee:
EndoSonics Corporation, Rancho Cordova, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 2/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 2/500 ;
Abstract
A catheter position guide (,) includes a first open channel (,) along the length of the position guide (,) designed to receive a catheter (,). An optional second channel (,) substantially on the opposite side of the first channel (,) is designed to receive a guide wire (,). One or more hubs (,) help retain the catheter position guide's proximal end (,) to a pullback device (,).