Patents by Inventor Michel Claracq

Michel Claracq 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).

  • Patent number: 4586501
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device partly occluding a vessel, of the type comprising a clip provided with teeth and designed to externally straddle the vessel. In the invention, the clip teeth are retractable, consisting notably of one or more flexible membranes which can be pressurized to array the teeth in projection in the active position or on the contrary which can be depressurized to withdraw the teeth and to put them in the passive position; the clip is associated with remote controls 2, 3 whereby the teeth can be put either into the active or into the passive position. These controls consist in particular of a catheter 3 and a hydraulic member pressurizing or depressurizing the clip membranes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1986
    Inventor: Michel Claracq