Stretch-resistant vaso-occlusive devices with flexible detachment junctions

US8002789B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Stryker Corporation · US
• Stryker NV Operations Limited · IE

Inventors

• Kamal Ramzipoor · Fremont, US
• Like Que · Livermore, US
• Jimmy Dao · Milpitas, US
• Esther Chang · Fremont, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 31, 2005
• Grant date: Aug 23, 2011
• Expiry date: Oct 28, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B2017/12063
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Disclosed herein are vaso-occlusive devices for forming occluding the vasculature of a patient. More particularly, disclosed herein are vaso-occlusive devices comprising at least one polymer structure and methods of making and using these devices.