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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:
Jul. 29, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 10, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Russell A. Houser, Livermore, CA (US);
James G. Whayne, San Jose, CA (US);
Sidney D. Fleischman, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Converge Medical, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/704 ; A61F 2/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/704 ; A61F 2/06 ;
Abstract
A system and components for treating aortic aneurysms includes a reinforcing graft and fittings for securing the graft to a host vessel and to branch vessels, for example the iliac and renal arteries. Combinations of fittings and rings or other compression mechanisms secure vessels or grafts frictionally, for end-end or end-side couplings. A variety of tools are disclosed for manipulating retaining rings, everting portions of grafts or vessels in the course of coupling them to fittings, and clamping fittings while positioning the retaining rings.