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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2011
Eugene Young, Union City, CA (US);
Chung Hao Yeh, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Christopher G. M. Ken, San Mateo, CA (US);
Thu Anh Ho, San Jose, CA (US);
Eugene Young, Union City, CA (US);
Chung Hao Yeh, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Christopher G. M. Ken, San Mateo, CA (US);
Thu Anh Ho, San Jose, CA (US);
Depuy Synthes Products, LLC, Raynham, MA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for deploying and retrieving a self-expanding intravascular stent includes an intravascular delivery wire and floating marker band movably retained over the intravascular stent delivery wire and releasably mounting the self-expanding intravascular stent. The floating marker band is movably retained to a fixed marker band, and a distance between the fixed marker band and the floating marker band is variable and self-adjusting. One or more struts of the self-expanding intravascular stent are releasably constrained between a catheter wall and one or more sides of the floating marker band.