Reentry catheter and method thereof

• US 8,956,376 B2
• Filed: 09/09/2011
• Issued: 02/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Spectranetics Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Spectranetics Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Alvarez, Jeffery B., Nevrla, David S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Price, Nathan R
• Application Number:
  US13/229,378
• Publication Number:
  US 20130006173A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,257 Days
• Field of Search: 606/170, 606/171, 604/95.04
• US Class Current: 606/170
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/3207 Atherectomy devices working by cutting or abrading; Similar devices specially adapted for non-vascular obstructions A61B17/32037 takes precedence; endoscopic cutting instruments A61B17/320016
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2017/320056 Tunnelers
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/0096 being laterally outward extensions or tools, e.g. hooks or fibres
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/0183 Rapid exchange or monorail catheters
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/0197 for creating an artificial passage within the body, e.g. in order to go around occlusions
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/32 with radio-opaque indicia
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/0138 having flexible regions as a result of weakened outer material, e.g. slots, slits, cuts, joints or coils
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/0194 Tunnelling catheters

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