US 12,257,166 B2
External steerable fiber for use in endoluminal deployment of expandable devices
Roberta A. Bloss, Flagstaff, AZ (US); Dustin C. Burkart, Flagstaff, AZ (US); Patrick M. Norris, Flagstaff, AZ (US); Matthew G. Sondreaal, Phoenix, AZ (US); and Stephanie M. Walsh, Flagstaff, AZ (US)
Assigned to W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., Newark, DE (US)
Filed by W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., Newark, DE (US)
Filed on Mar. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/701,344.
Application 17/701,344 is a continuation of application No. 15/668,500, filed on Aug. 3, 2017, granted, now 11,324,615.
Application 15/668,500 is a continuation of application No. 13/658,597, filed on Oct. 23, 2012, granted, now 9,782,282, issued on Oct. 10, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/559,408, filed on Nov. 14, 2011.
Prior Publication US 2022/0211525 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. A61F 2/95 (2013.01); A61F 2/07 (2013.01); A61F 2/966 (2013.01); A61F 2/97 (2013.01)
CPC A61F 2/95 (2013.01) [A61F 2/97 (2013.01); A61F 2/07 (2013.01); A61F 2002/9665 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
11. A catheter assembly comprising:
a catheter;
an expandable device arranged near a distal end of the catheter;
a monosleeve coupled about the expandable device, the monosleeve operable to constrain the expandable device at a collapsed configuration and an intermediate configuration; and
two steering lines releasably coupled to the expandable device, the steering lines each being positioned radially interior of the monosleeve, wherein the at least one linear portion of the two lines are essentially parallel with one another across a significant portion of the expandable device and essentially parallel with a longitudinal axis of the expandable device.