Invention Application
- Patent Title: Insertable Catheter Device for Patch Application
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Application No.: US16782029Application Date: 2020-02-04
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Publication No.: US20200179050A1Publication Date: 2020-06-11
- Inventor: Conor J. Walsh , Ellen T. Roche , Panagiotis Polygerinos , Lucia R. Schuster , Jeffrey Michael Karp , Yuhan Lee , Pedro J. del Nido , Assunta Fabozzo , Ingeborg Friehs , Steven Charles Wasserman
- Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College , The Brigham and Women's Hospital , Children's Medical Center Corporation , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Applicant Address: US MA Cambridge US MA Boston US MA Boston US MA Cambridge
- Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College,The Brigham and Women's Hospital,Children's Medical Center Corporation,Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Current Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College,The Brigham and Women's Hospital,Children's Medical Center Corporation,Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Cambridge US MA Boston US MA Boston US MA Cambridge
- Main IPC: A61B18/24
- IPC: A61B18/24 ; A61B17/00 ; A61F2/00 ; A61M25/00

Abstract:
An insertable catheter device includes a shaft including a proximal end and a distal end, an expandable balloon, and an actuator configured to expand and retract the expandable balloon. The actuator includes a fluid conduit that extends through the shaft and is coupled with the expandable balloon to enable inflation and retraction of the expandable balloon via injection or withdrawal of a fluid to or from the expandable balloon via the fluid conduit. The expandable balloon is displaceably retractable into the shaft and extendable from the shaft. A fluid pump is coupled with the fluid conduit to pump the fluid through the fluid conduit. A patch is positioned to be displaced by the expandable balloon when the expandable balloon is inflated, and the expandable balloon is displaceably retractable into the shaft and displaceably extendable from the shaft.
Public/Granted literature
- US11627949B2 Insertable catheter device for patch application Public/Granted day:2023-04-18
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