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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2006
Robert Burgermeister, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Matthew E. Krever, Warren, NJ (US);
Ramesh V. Marrey, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Daniel Olsen, Califon, NJ (US);
Robert Burgermeister, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Matthew E. Krever, Warren, NJ (US);
Ramesh V. Marrey, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Daniel Olsen, Califon, NJ (US);
Cordis Corporation, Miami Lakes, FL (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure concerns a delivery system for delivering a medically useful payload through the vasculature to a site of interest in the patient's body. The medically useful payload may be a therapeutic device, such as a stent, and it may be a diagnostic tool, such as an imaging device. Owing to its structural attributes, the presently-inventive delivery system is well suited for carrying medical payload to and through vessel curvature and to branched regions (i.e., bifurcations) in same. Also, the device is well-suited to traveling through a vessel over a guiding element, such as a guidewire, which itself exhibits curvature.