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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2003
Applicants:
Don Mamayek, Mountain View, CA (US);
Stephen Christopher Porter, Oakland, CA (US);
Inventors:
Don Mamayek, Mountain View, CA (US);
Stephen Christopher Porter, Oakland, CA (US);
Assignee:
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 29/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to a devices and methods for their use for the release of medical workpieces such as, without limitation, embolic devices, from apparatuses used to deliver them to a target site in a patient's body involving use of a piezoelectric member that is fracturable and/or an adhesive layer that is susceptible to adhesive or cohesive failure.