Patents by Inventor Christoper R. Larson

Christoper R. Larson 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).

  • Catheter support for stent delivery
    Patent number: 6610069
    Abstract: An angioplasty and stent delivery system to facilitate introduction and placement of a stent, including a catheter having an expandable distal portion constructed and arranged for expanding the outer diameter of the catheter from a contracted state to an expanded state: a stent positioned around the distal portion of the catheter having a contracted condition and being expandable to an expanded condition, and being sized in the contracted condition to closely surround the catheter in the contracted state, the expandable distal portion of the catheter including a balloon within which or over which there is included on a catheter shaft at least one axially movable or enlargeable body of a diameter larger than the catheter shaft to which the stent and balloon are fitted, as by crimping, for holding the stent in place until it is released therefrom by expansion of the balloon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: SciMed Life Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles L. Euteneuer, Christoper R. Larson, Steven P. Mertens, Richard C. Mattison, David J. Blaeser, Louis G. Ellis, Andrew J. Dusbabek, Terry V. Brown