US 12,239,802 B2
Catheter management device
Ashur Bourang, Turlock, CA (US); and Henry Bourang, Turlock, CA (US)
Assigned to Advanced Bifurcation Systems Inc., Livermore, CA (US)
Filed by Advanced Bifurcation Systems Inc., Livermore, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/715,630.
Application 17/715,630 is a continuation of application No. 16/997,119, filed on Aug. 19, 2020, granted, now 11,324,925.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/889,667, filed on Aug. 21, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0226612 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. A61M 25/02 (2006.01); A61M 25/01 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 25/02 (2013.01) [A61M 2025/0177 (2013.01); A61M 2025/028 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A guidewire or catheter shaft management device, the device comprising:
an upper plate comprising at least one upper groove disposed therein, the at least one upper groove sized to receive a guidewire or catheter shaft;
a lower plate comprising at least one lower groove disposed therein, the at least one lower groove in the lower plate sized to receive the guidewire or catheter;
wherein the upper plate is detachably coupled to the lower plate and wherein the guidewire or catheter is capturable between the upper plate and the lower plate, and wherein the at least one lower groove in the lower plate cooperates with the at least one upper groove in the upper plate to form a channel configured to hold the guidewire or catheter shaft, the upper and lower plates having alignment pins and apertures with each alignment pin received in a corresponding aperture when the upper plate is coupled to the lower plate; and
wherein the upper plate and the lower plate are configured such that the upper plate can be completely detached from the lower plate to allow access to a guidewire or catheter shaft received in a said channel,
wherein the at least one lower groove comprises a first lower groove and a second lower groove disposed in the lower plate, wherein the first and second lower grooves extend from a first edge of the lower plate to a second edge of the lower plate opposite the first edge, and wherein adjacent the first edge the first and second lower grooves are substantially parallel with one another, and wherein adjacent the second edge the first and second lower grooves flare away from one another in respective curved arcs that diverge away from one another.