US 12,318,318 B2
Delivery systems for stents having protruding features
Teodoro S. Jimenez, Jr., Aliso Viejo, CA (US); Patrick Lo, Diamond Bar, CA (US); John Fulkerson, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US); Isa Rizk, San Diego, CA (US); Francisco Aguayo, Hemet, CA (US); Jihad Ali Mustapha, Ada, MI (US); and Gary Ansel, Columbus, OH (US)
Assigned to ReFlow Medical, Inc., San Clemente, CA (US)
Filed by ReFlow Medical, Inc., San Clemente, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/135,034.
Application 18/135,034 is a division of application No. 16/593,842, filed on Oct. 4, 2019, granted, now 11,648,139.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/742,852, filed on Oct. 8, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0248558 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61F 2/966 (2013.01); A61F 2/958 (2013.01); A61F 2/00 (2006.01); A61F 2/848 (2013.01); A61F 2/95 (2013.01)
CPC A61F 2/966 (2013.01) [A61F 2/958 (2013.01); A61F 2002/0081 (2013.01); A61F 2/848 (2013.01); A61F 2002/8483 (2013.01); A61F 2002/9511 (2013.01); A61F 2002/9528 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0008 (2013.01); A61F 2220/0025 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0069 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0091 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0059 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0067 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
an outer shaft;
an inner shaft slidably disposed within the outer shaft and comprising a proximal portion, a distal portion, and an inflatable balloon on the proximal portion of the inner shaft;
a guidewire slidably disposed within the inner shaft; and
a stent slidably disposed within the outer shaft and on the distal portion of the inner shaft that is distal to the balloon, the stent being connected to a stabilizing wire that is slidably disposed within the outer shaft, wherein the stent comprises:
a radially expandable cylindrical frame comprising struts; and
protruding features carried by one or more struts.