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Doug Engelbart
Thomas Fogarty
Ashok Gadgil
Stephanie Kwolek
 Thomas Fogarty Biography Fogarty's Adherent Clot Catheter. Patents Fogarty used his fly-fishing skills to tie a glove tip to a catheter, creating the first balloon embolectomy catheter. Videos Some of Fogarty's balloon catheters. Some 20 million people have been treated with these kinds of devices. Interview
Patent 4762130, Issued August 9, 1988

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Embolectomy Catheter
Patent 3435826
Issued April 1, 1969
Modular intraluminal prostheses construction and methods
Patent 5824037
Issued October 20, 1998
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Catheter with corkscrew-like balloon
Patent 4762130
Issued August 9, 1988

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