US Patent 7156861 Expandable structures for deployment in interior body regions

Patent 7156861 was granted and assigned to Kyphon (company) on January, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Patent attributes

Current Assignee

Kyphon (company)

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7156861

Date of Patent

January 2, 2007

Patent Application Number

10436551

Date Filed

May 13, 2003

Patent Citations Received

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US Patent 11744710 Implantable nuclear prosthesis, kits, and related methods

Patent Primary Examiner

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Kevin T. Truong

Patent abstract

Apparatus for deploying an expandable structure in interior body regions provide an outer catheter tube, an inner catheter tube sized and configured to be received within the outer catheter tube, and an expandable structure having a distal end and a proximal end. The expandable structure also has a first end region adjacent the distal end and a second end region adjacent the proximal end. The distal end is bonded to the inner catheter tube to form a first bonded region and the proximal end is bonded to the outer catheter tube to form a second bonded region. The first end region is inverted to overlie the first bonded region and the second end region is inverted to overlie the second bonded region.