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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2000
Wayne E. Cornish, Fallbrook, CA (US);
Mark T. Richardson, Escondido, CA (US);
Lawrence E. Brennan, Temecula, CA (US);
Marc M. Jalisi, Temecula, CA (US);
David M. Anderson, Temecula, CA (US);
Mo Jafari, Murrieta, CA (US);
Sepehr Fariabi, Fremont, CA (US);
Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A guidewire for guiding a medical device within a patient which has an elongate core member with a flexible body member disposed about and secured to a distal core section and a flexible core segment or flexible core segment which has a first pair of opposed faces which define a first transverse dimension that tapers from a first value to a second larger value and a second pair of opposed faces which define a second transverse dimension that tapers from a first value to a second smaller value.