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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2003
David H. Burkett, Temecula, CA (US);
Kevin Britton, Murrieta, CA (US);
Ryan Grandfield, Murrieta, CA (US);
Peter J. D'aquanni, Murrieta, CA (US);
David Wrolstad, Temecula, CA (US);
Edwin P. Mahieu, Temecula, CA (US);
Wayne E. Cornish, Fallbrook, CA (US);
Mark T. Richardson, Escondido, CA (US);
David H. Burkett, Temecula, CA (US);
Kevin Britton, Murrieta, CA (US);
Ryan Grandfield, Murrieta, CA (US);
Peter J. D'Aquanni, Murrieta, CA (US);
David Wrolstad, Temecula, CA (US);
Edwin P. Mahieu, Temecula, CA (US);
Wayne E. Cornish, Fallbrook, CA (US);
Mark T. Richardson, Escondido, CA (US);
Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A guide wire for advancing a medical device such as a catheter through a patient's body lumen which has an elongated core with proximal and distal core section, a flexible tubular member such as a coil on the distal end. The wire core includes surface textures that are translated into the overlying coating. Alternatively, the coating has its own surface texture. The surface textures include randomly or non-randomly spaced bumps, divots, ridges, helical grooves, longitudinal grooves, undulations, etc.