Abstract: An arterial blockage percussive drill having a guiding sleeve, a drilling wire slidably coupled to the guiding sleeve and a percussive actuator coupled to the drilling wire to longitudinally oscillate the drilling wire into an arterial blockage.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 25, 2016
Date of Patent:
July 16, 2019
Assignees:
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PLACIDUS LLC
Inventors:
Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Stewart Sherrit, Hyeong Jae Lee, Mircea Badescu, Xiaoqi Bao, Yoseph Shalev, Joshua Leavitt