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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Vladimir Mitelberg, Aventura, FL (US);
Dieter Stoeckel, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cordis Neurovascular, Inc., Miami Lakes, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23P 1/102 ; A61F 2/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23P 1/102 ; A61F 2/06 ;
Abstract
A method of manufacturing medical devices of a size sufficiently small to be passed through the vasculature of the body, and more particularly through the small vessels of the brain. The method includes the steps of laser cutting a pattern of apertures in the surface of a tubular workpiece, radially compressing the tubular workpiece to reduce the outer dimensions of the workpiece and heat setting the reduced diameter workpiece to form the very small medical device.