Guidance system for a cryocatheter
CA 2437079 A1 · Owner: Cryocor, Inc. · Inventors: Lentz, David J.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A system for guiding a cryocatheter through the vasculature of a patient includes a guidewire positioned in the vasculature across a predetermined site A connector a attached to the distal end of the cryocatheter and is configured to receive the guidewire. The connector is then placed over the guidewire to guide the cryocatheter through the vasculature along the guidewire to the predetermined site. The tip of the cryocatheter can then be used at the predetermined site to cryoablate the tissue or otherwise remove heat from the predetermined site.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed August 13, 2003. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended August 13, 2023.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by August 13, 2025.
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