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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:
May. 04, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Luiz B. Da Silva, Danville, CA (US);
Victor C. Esch, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexander M. Rubenchik, Livermore, CA (US);
Jonathan Hares, Wallingford, GB;
Joseph D. Kilkenny, Livermore, CA (US);
Gilbert W. Collins, Livermore, CA (US);
Paul J. Weber, Fort Lauderdale, FL (US);
Assignee:
Pearl Technology Holdings, LLC, Livermore, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/900 ;
Abstract
A medical device is described that can be used to detect in stent restenosis. This invention consists of a stent of current or modified technology, an electromagnetic wave transmitter to excite the stent and an acoustic sensor to detect stent acoustic oscillations.