IP Library Granted Patent US 11,116,529
Granted Patent B2
US 11,116,529 · App. 16/488,121 · Granted Sep 14, 2021

Embolectomy device having multiple semi-tubular clot engaging structures

Inventors: Ryan M. Grandfield (Livermore, CA); Aleksandr Leynov (Walnut Creek, CA)
Assignee: Stryker Corporation
A61B17/221A61B2017/2215A61B2017/22034
View Patent ↗
Loading inventors, assignments & file history…
Monitor This Case
Get email alerts when status or documents change.
Order Certified Copies
Most orders are placed with the USPTO same day — all within 24 business hours.
Order via The Patent Place →
Pre-filled with this patent's details
Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,116,529
App. No.
16/488,121
Granted
Sep 14, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

An elongate embolectomy device having a radially constrained configuration and a radially expanded configuration, the embolectomy device being formed out of a plurality of elongate clot engaging structures, each clot engaging structure comprising a plurality of interconnected struts forming an open cell pattern, wherein, when the embolectomy device is in the radially expanded configuration, the clot engaging structures each have a semi-tubular arcuate profile, including a convex face and an concave face facing opposite the convex face, extending along a length of the embolectomy device, the clot engaging structures being longitudinally disposed relative to each other such that the concave faces are facing radially outward, and the convex surfaces are facing radially inward, respectively, relative to a longitudinal axis of the embolectomy device.

Claims (10)

1. An elongate embolectomy device biased to expand from a radially constrained configuration to a radially expanded configuration when released from a delivery catheter within a blood vessel, the embolectomy device comprising:

a plurality of elongate clot engaging structures, each clot engaging structure comprising a plurality of interconnected struts forming an open cell pattern,

wherein, when the embolectomy device is in the radially expanded configuration, each of the clot engaging structures has a semi-tubular arcuate profile in a cross-sectional view along a longitudinal axis of the embolectomy device, including a convex face and a concave face facing opposite the convex face, extending along a length of the embolectomy device, the clot engaging structures being longitudinally disposed relative to each other such that the concave faces of the clot engaging structures are facing radially outward, and the convex surfaces of the clot engaging structures are facing radially inward, respectively, relative to the longitudinal axis.

2. The embolectomy device of claim 1 , wherein a strut of a first clot engaging structure is attached to a strut of a second clot engaging structure at one or more attachment locations.

3. The embolectomy device of claim 1 , the plurality of clot engaging structures comprising a first clot engaging structure, a second clot engaging structure, and a third clot engaging structure, wherein a strut of the first clot engaging structure is attached to respective struts of the second and third clot engaging structures at one or more attachment locations.

4. The embolectomy device of claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of elongate elements are attached to struts forming at least one clot engaging structure, the elongate elements comprising one or more of filaments, suture material, fibers, threads, and wires.

5. The embolectomy device of claim 1 , wherein respective first and second longitudinal elongate struts of each clot engaging structure are undulating to form successive fin-shaped peaks and intervening valleys along a length of the clot engaging structures when the embolectomy device is in the radially expanded configuration.

6. The embolectomy device of claim 5 , wherein cells defined at least in part by the respective first and second longitudinal elongate struts at the peaks are smaller than cells defined at least in part by the respective first and second longitudinal elongate struts within the valleys.

7. The embolectomy device of claim 5 , wherein the respective first and second longitudinal elongate struts of a first clot engaging structure are symmetrically aligned with the respective first and second longitudinal elongate struts of the other clot engaging structures, wherein the clot engaging structures are attached to one another at one or more attachment locations on the respective first and second elongated struts of each clot engaging structure, and wherein the one or more attachment locations are each located on or proximate to the longitudinal axis of the embolectomy device.

8. The embolectomy device of claim 1 , further comprising a push wire, wherein each clot engaging structure is attached to a distal end portion of the push wire.

Assignments (5)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Dec 18, 2024
From: STRYKER EUROPEAN OPERATIONS HOLDINGS LLC
To: STRYKER EUROPEAN OPERATIONS HOLDINGS LLC
Reel/Frame 069730/0754 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Dec 18, 2024
From: STRYKER CORPORATION
To: STRYKER CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 069737/0184 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 14, 2022
From: STRYKER EUROPEAN HOLDINGS III, LLC
To: STRYKER EUROPEAN OPERATIONS HOLDINGS LLC
Reel/Frame 062119/0517 →
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Dec 13, 2022
From: STRYKER EUROPEAN HOLDINGS I, LLC
To: STRYKER EUROPEAN HOLDINGS III, LLC
Reel/Frame 062117/0350 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 22, 2019
From: GRANDFIELD, RYAN M.; LEYNOV, ALEKSANDR
To: STRYKER CORPORATION; STRYKER EUROPEAN HOLDINGS I, LLC
Reel/Frame 050138/0056 →