Patents by Inventor Samuel Jakovljevic

Samuel Jakovljevic 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).

  • Devices for extracting biliary or urinary stones
    Patent number: 6692484
    Abstract: A device (10) for extracting biliary or urinary stones, calculi or the like (stones 104) from the biliary or urinary tract (100) of a patient including a catheter shaft (12), a first expandable apparatus for dilating the tract entrance or the sphincter thereat, and a second expandable apparatus for capturing the stone and/or urging it out of the tract. The first expandable apparatus may be an inflatable balloon (14) fixed on the catheter shaft (12), and the second expandable apparatus may be a second inflatable balloon (18) fixed on the catheter shaft or on a second tube telescopically associated with the catheter shaft, or may be a reversibly collapsible extraction basket (154) such as of nitinol wires, that is slidably receivable in and extendable from the catheter shaft (112).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Wilson-Cook Medical Incorporated
    Inventors: John A. Karpiel, Giuseppe Lombardo, Samuel Jakovljevic