Patents Assigned to St. Jude Medical Puerto Rico LC
  • Vascular sealing device with high surface area sealing plug
    Patent number: 7621937
    Abstract: An internal tissue puncture closure method and apparatus. The method and apparatus provide a folded sealing plug that provides more surface area than conventional plugs to more fully cover and seal an external situs of an internal tissue puncture. The folded sealing plug may have a weave pattern that tends to cause the sealing plug to corkscrew into the internal tissue puncture as it is compressed toward an anchor placed inside of the tissue puncture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: St. Jude Medical Puerto Rico LC
    Inventors: Catherine A. Pipenhagen, Kedar R. Belhe, John Avi Roop