Patents Assigned to Novashunt AG
  • Patent number: 7909790
    Abstract: An implantable fluid management device, designed to drain excess fluid from a variety of locations in a living host into a second location within the host, such as the bladder of that host. The device may be used to treat ascites, chronic pericardial effusions, normopressure hydrocephalus, hydrocephalus, pulmonary edema, or any fluid collection within the body of a human, or a non-human mammal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: NovaShunt AG
    Inventor: Daniel R. Burnett
  • Publication number: 20090318844
    Abstract: A device for removing fluid from a first bodily cavity and for directing that fluid into a second bodily cavity while avoiding risks of infection and, in one embodiment, excessive dehydration of the first bodily cavity. The device includes an uptake tube having a proximal end in fluid communication with the first bodily cavity and a distal end in fluid communication with a pump, and an outflow tube having a proximal end in fluid communication with the pump and a distal end in fluid communication with the second bodily cavity. The distal end of the uptake tube may be coupled to a reservoir configured to expand upon ingression of fluid into the reservoir and to contract upon removal of fluid due to a negative pressure provided by the pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: NOVASHUNT AG
    Inventor: Daniel R. Burnett
  • Patent number: 7621886
    Abstract: An implantable fluid management device, designed to drain excess fluid from a variety of locations in a living host into a second location within the host, such as the bladder of that host. The device may be used to treat ascites, chronic pericardial effusions, normopressure hydrocephalus, hydrocephalus, pulmonary edema, or any fluid collection within the body of a human, or a non-human mammal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: NovaShunt AG
    Inventor: Daniel R. Burnett
  • Publication number: 20080154173
    Abstract: A transvesicular drainage device configured to drain excess fluid from a variety of locations in the human body into the bladder. The device may be used to treat ascites or any fluid collection within the body of a human or of a non-human mammal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: NOVASHUNT AG
    Inventor: Daniel Rogers Burnett
  • Patent number: 7335179
    Abstract: A transvesicular drainage device, designed to drain excess fluid from a variety of locations in the human body into the bladder. The device may be used to treat ascites or any fluid collection within the body of a human, or a non human mammal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Novashunt AG
    Inventor: Daniel Rogers Burnett
  • Patent number: 7311690
    Abstract: An implantable fluid management device, designed to drain excess fluid from a variety of locations in a living host into a second location within the host, such as the bladder of that host. The device may be used to treat ascites, chronic pericardial effusions, normopressure hydrocephalus, hydrocephalus, pulmonary edema, or any fluid collection within the body of a human, or a non-human mammal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Novashunt AG
    Inventor: Daniel R. Burnett