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Granted Patent B2
US 12,268,824 · App. 16/047,922 · Granted Apr 8, 2025

Shaped catheter tip for tracking over a guidewire through turns in the vasculature

Inventors: Greg Halstead (Sunnyvale, CA); Arturo Viscorra (San Jose, CA)
Assignee: Embolx, Inc.
A61M25/0147A61M25/005A61M25/1002A61M25/0113A61M25/0141
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Patent No.
US 12,268,824
App. No.
16/047,922
Granted
Apr 8, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vascular catheter system is provided with a flexible main body and a flexible shaped tip. The tip is located at the distal end of the main body and has at least a portion configured to deviate from a longitudinal axis when in a relaxed state and towards alignment with the longitudinal axis when a guidewire is extended through a lumen of the shaped tip. The shaped tip is no longer than 1 cm and includes at least three sections. The second section is located distally from the first section, and the third section is located distally from the second section. The second section includes a first material having a first durometer and a second material having a second durometer lower than the first durometer. The first section includes the first material without the second material, and the third section includes the second material without the first material.

Claims (17)

1. A vascular catheter system comprising:

a flexible main body which extends along a generally straight longitudinal axis when in a relaxed state, the main body having a proximal end and a distal end, the main body having a lumen therethrough configured to slidably receive a guidewire; and

a flexible shaped tip coupled to the distal end of the main body such that a radially outermost surface of a proximal end of the shaped tip is disposed radially about a distal region of the main body, the shaped tip having a lumen therethrough in communication with the lumen of the main body and configured to slidably receive the guidewire, the shaped tip having at least a portion configured to deviate from the longitudinal axis when in a relaxed state and configured to move towards alignment with the longitudinal axis when the guidewire is extended through the lumen of the shaped tip,

wherein the shaped tip is no longer than 1 cm and comprises at least three sections including a first, a second and a third section, the second section being located distally from the first section and the third section being located distally from the second section,

the second section comprising a first material having a first durometer and a second material having a second durometer lower than the first durometer, the second material comprising a polymer and tungsten, the first section comprising the first material without the second material with the first material extending from a proximal end of the first section to a distal end of the first section and the first material forming the radially outermost surface of the proximal end of the shaped tip, and the third section comprising the second material without the first material, the second and third sections being radiopaque, wherein the first and second materials each extend completely around the second section from a proximal end of the second section to a distal end of the second section.

2. The catheter system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one portion of the shaped tip configured to deviate from the longitudinal axis extends through an angle of at least 30 degrees.

3. The catheter system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one portion of the shaped tip configured to deviate from the longitudinal axis extends through an angle of between about 60 degrees and about 90 degrees.

4. The catheter system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one portion of the shaped tip configured to deviate from the longitudinal axis extends through an angle of between about 120 degrees and about 160 degrees.

5. The catheter system of claim 1 , further comprising the guidewire configured to be received through the main body and the shaped tip to guide a distal end of the shaped tip through torturous vasculature.

6. The catheter system of claim 5 , wherein a distal region of the guidewire increases in stiffness when moving from its distal end towards its proximal end.

7. The catheter system of claim 1 , further comprising an inflatable balloon located near the distal end of the main body.

8. The catheter system of claim 1 , wherein the shaped tip comprises a single bend.

9. The catheter system of claim 1 , wherein the shaped tip comprises at least two bends.

10. The catheter system of claim 1 , wherein the shaped tip comprises a curved portion having an inner bend radius no greater than about 0.10 inches.

11. The catheter system of claim 1 , wherein the shaped tip comprises a curved portion having an inner bend radius no greater than about three times an outside diameter of the shaped tip.

12. The catheter system of claim 1 , wherein the main body comprises an inner shaft within and radially spaced from an outer shaft of the main body, the radial spacing between the inner and outer shafts defining an inflation lumen, and the inner shaft extending distally beyond a distal end of the outer shaft.

13. The catheter system of claim 12 , wherein the inner shaft has a length from a proximal end of the inner shaft to a distal end of the inner shaft, wherein the shaped tip is coupled to the distal end of the inner shaft such that the radially outermost surface of the proximal end of the shaped tip is disposed radially about a radially outermost surface of the inner shaft, the radially outermost surface of the inner shaft being the radially outermost surface of the inner shaft along the length of the inner shaft.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 19, 2019
From: HALSTEAD, GREG; VISCORRA, ARTURO
To: EMBOLX, INC.
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