Patent ID: 9345858
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: A61B,A61M

Claim Text:
1. A tissue penetrating catheter device useable to penetrate outwardly from a blood vessel lumen in which the tissue penetrating catheter device is positioned to a target location outside of that blood vessel lumen, said tissue penetrating catheter device comprising: i) a flexible catheter body which is insertable into the blood vessel lumen, said catheter body having a side wall, a distal end and an outlet opening formed in the side wall thereof; ii) an first lumen through which a separate imaging catheter may be inserted; iii) a second lumen which extends through said outlet opening; iv) a tissue penetrating member disposed within said second lumen and advanceable out of said outlet opening; and, v) an orientation structure positioned on the catheter body, said orientation structure having a) an imaging catheter receiving space formed therein in alignment with said first lumen and b) at least one marker member located on one side of the imaging catheter receiving space, said at least one marker member being positioned and constructed to create, on an image display received from an imaging catheter positioned within the imaging catheter receiving space, an indication of the path that will be followed by the tissue penetrating member when the tissue penetrating member is advanced from the catheter body.