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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. 04, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 11, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Elvin Leonard Nix, Putney, GB;
Amit Kumar Som, New Southgate, GB;
Martin Terry Rothman, London, GB;
Andrew Robert Pacey, Stevenage, GB;
Assignee:
Intravascular Research Limited, Isleworth, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/00 ;
Abstract
A catheter is provided that has both an ultrasonic transducer array (,) and a inflatable balloon (,) mounted at or near its distal end. A sheath catheter having a transducer array and associated multiplexer (,) arrangement located substantially coaxially within it. Furthermore, a guidewire (,) catheter having an ultrasonic transducer array mounted on it distal end.