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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2002

Filed:

Jul. 06, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:

Dennis Bui, Irvine, CA (US);

Jay J. Eum, Irvine, CA (US);

Paul W. Mikus, Irvine, CA (US);

Assignee:

Endocare, Inc., Irvine, US;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/06 ;
Abstract

A stent delivery catheter. The catheter includes an inner catheter tube and an outer catheter tube which are rotatable relative to each other. The inner catheter and outer catheter include recesses to receive the ends of the stent, permitting pull wires to engage the stent ends without need to for the pull wires to extend radially beyond the bounds of the catheter or requiring the stent ends to protrude it into the lumen of the inner or outer catheter.


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