| Ingemar Lundquist | |||||||
| Citizenship: | American | ||||||
| Birth Name: | Ingemar Henry Lundquist | ||||||
| Birth Date: | 19 October 1921 | ||||||
| Birth Place: | Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||
| Death Place: | Carmel Valley, California, U.S. | ||||||
| Resting Place: | Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California) | ||||||
| Resting Place Coordinates: | 37°50′07″N 122°14′13″W | ||||||
| Education: | Stockholm Institute of Technology | ||||||
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Ingemar Henry Lundquist (October 19, 1921 – February 25, 2007) was a Swedish inventor and mechanical engineer.[1] He became an American citizen in 1950.
Lundquist graduated from the Stockholm Institute of Technology in 1945 with a mechanical engineering degree.[2] [3] He migrated to the United States in 1948 and became an American citizen in 1950.[3]
He worked for various medical technology companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, including Advanced Cardiovascular Systems and E.P.Technologies.
Lundquist had hundreds of inventions,[4] typically working in his garage or basement. He held more than a hundred patents. His inventions included over-the-wire balloon angioplasty,[5] T.U.N.A.,[6] and somnoplasty.[7] He also worked on cardiac stem-cell therapy.
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