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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2010
Sang Joon Park, Waterloo, CA;
Shaulaine Choo, Cambridge, CA;
Anthony S. Andreacchi, San Jose, CA (US);
Yung-ming Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Arnoldo M. Currlin, San Diego, CA (US);
Antonio Garcia, San Jose, CA (US);
Jason Van Sciver, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Thomas David Esbeck, Murrieta, CA (US);
Bryan D. Glenn, Murrieta, CA (US);
Sang joon Park, Waterloo, CA;
Shaulaine Choo, Cambridge, CA;
Anthony S. Andreacchi, San Jose, CA (US);
Yung-Ming Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Arnoldo M. Currlin, San Diego, CA (US);
Antonio Garcia, San Jose, CA (US);
Jason Van Sciver, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Thomas David Esbeck, Murrieta, CA (US);
Bryan D. Glenn, Murrieta, CA (US);
Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc., Cambridge, CA;
Abstract
A system and method of aligning a stent with a stent support involves taking two images of the stent that has been placed on the stent support and determining from the two images whether the stent is aligned with the stent support. The stent can be rotated so that the two images are of different views of the stent. A computer can be configured to receive the images and to determine the whether the stent is aligned. A backlight can be used to take images of the stent in silhouette. A portion of the stent support can be re-positioned based on an image taken of the stent.