Patents by Inventor Carole M. Sykes

Carole M. Sykes has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Apparatus for deploying a guidewire across a complex lesion
    Patent number: 6241744
    Abstract: An apparatus for deploying a guidewire across a complex lesion in a vessel formed by a wall and normally having a lumen extending therethrough including an elongate flexible catheter having proximal and distal extremities and having a plurality of separate spaced apart lumens therein extending from the proximal extremity into a location at least adjacent the distal extremity. A handle is mounted on the proximal extremity of the flexible elongate catheter. A flexible elongate sheath is mounted on the catheter and has a proximal portion, a transition portion and a distal portion with the transition portion being in the vicinity of the distal extremity of the catheter. The sheath has a lumen therein extending from the proximal portion through the transition portion and through the distal portion. First and second devices are slidably mounted in the spaced-apart lumens of said catheter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Fox Hollow Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mir A. Imran, Theodore C. Ormsby, Carole M. Sykes, Jeffrey S. Frisbie, Kevin H. Van Bladel, Scott A. McGill, Osamu Katoh