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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2014
Intersect Ent, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Anthony J. Abbate, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bin Huang, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Gail M. Zaler, Milpitas, CA (US);
David C. Gale, Kennesaw, GA (US);
Richard E. Kaufman, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Vijaykumar Rajasekhar, Apple Valley, CA (US);
Intersect ENT, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Described here are devices and methods for crimping self-expanding devices. The crimping devices may be useful for crimping a variety of different self-expanding devices (whether such devices are biodegradable or bio-durable). The crimping devices may have crimping members to engage the self-expanding device to reduce the device from an expanding configuration to an unexpanded configuration. The crimping member may comprise or include a suture, wire, ribbon, guiding hoop, pusher, prong, holding bar, balloon, jaws, combinations thereof, or the like. The crimping devices may also include or comprise a holding structure to hold the self-expanding device in an unexpanded or expanded configuration.