Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Medical instrument having a balloon and an extraction member
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Application No.: US17223805Application Date: 2021-04-06
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Publication No.: US11771444B2Publication Date: 2023-10-03
- Inventor: Richard Crawford , Martin Lawrence Fawdry , Louis McNern , Aiden Flanagan , Matthew Montague , Geraldine Alice Toner , Enda Connaughton , Gary Gilmartin
- Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MN Maple Grove
- Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MN Maple Grove
- Agency: Bookoff McAndrews PLLC
- Main IPC: A61B17/22
- IPC: A61B17/22

Abstract:
A medical instrument may include a tube, a sheath provided around and coaxial with the tube, and an inflatable balloon at a distal end of the sheath. The balloon may receive a fluid from a lumen of the sheath, and may have a central opening along a longitudinal axis thereof, and into which the tube extends, a proximal portion, a middle portion adjacent to and distal of the proximal portion, and a distal portion adjacent to and proximal of the middle portion. When the balloon is inflated with the fluid, a maximum diameter of the middle portion may be less than a maximum diameter of the proximal portion, and less than a maximum diameter of the distal portion. The medical instrument may also include an extraction member provided at a distal end of the tube, distal to the balloon, and movable axially relative to the balloon.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210315595A1 MEDICAL INSTRUMENT HAVING A BALLOON AND AN EXTRACTION MEMBER Public/Granted day:2021-10-14
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