Releasable basket and method of making thereof

US7875038B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Scimed Life Systems, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Like Que · Livermore, US
• James A. Teague · Boonville, US
• James Bates · Paradise Valley, US
• Stephane Gobron · Northbrook, US
• Tim Ward · Monroe, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 11, 2007
• Grant date: Jan 25, 2011
• Expiry date: Nov 26, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49826
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A medical retrieval device includes a basket formed of two or more loops. The basket may be used to retrieve material (e.g., a urinary stone) from a body. The basket opens and closes for end-encapsulation of a stone and is strengthened by support members that interconnect the basket loops. A captured stone may be from the basket with the basket still in the body by opening the loops.