Patents Assigned to Tycast Technologies, LLC
  • MEDICAL DEVICE FOR PROVIDING PORT-LIKE ACCESS TO A MAMMALIAN URINARY SYSTEM AND METHODS OF INSERTING AND UTILIZING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20200029788
    Abstract: A medical device for providing direct port-like endoscopic access to the urinary bladder, or other orifice, of a patient and a method of utilizing and inserting the medical device. The medical device can include a hollow tube with a main channel and a separate channel, a cap with an inflation port and a hollow flexible stem fluidly connecting the inflation port and the separate channel. A method can include inserting a needle above the pubic symphysis of a mammal, threading a guide wire through the needle, removing the needle and inserting the medical device. The method can optionally include determining measuring the depth between the skin surface of the patient's suprapubic region and urinary bladder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: Tycast Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Frank J. Tycast, James F. Tycast
  • Medical device for providing port-like access to a mammalian urinary system and methods of inserting an utilizing the same
    Patent number: 9226771
    Abstract: A medical device for providing direct port-like endoscopic access to the urinary bladder, or other orifice, of a patient and a method of utilizing and inserting the medical device. The medical device can include a hollow tube with a main channel and a separate channel, a cap with an inflation port and a hollow flexible stem fluidly connecting the inflation port and the separate channel. A method can include inserting a needle above the pubic symphysis of a mammal, threading a guide wire through the needle, removing the needle and inserting the medical device. The method can optionally include determining measuring the depth between the skin surface of the patient's suprapubic region and urinary bladder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Tycast Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Frank J. Tycast, James F. Tycast
  • Medical device for providing port-like access to a mammalian urinary bladder and methods of inserting and utilizing the same
    Patent number: 8870852
    Abstract: A medical device for providing direct port-like endoscopic access to the urinary bladder of a patient and a method of utilizing and inserting the medical device. The medical device can include a hollow tube with a main channel and a separate channel, a cap with an inflation port and a hollow flexible stem fluidly connecting the inflation port and the separate channel. A method can include inserting a needle above the pubic symphysis of a mammal, threading a guide wire through the needle, removing the needle and inserting the medical device. The method can optionally include determining measuring the depth between the skin surface of the patient's suprapubic region and urinary bladder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Tycast Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Frank J. Tycast, James F. Tycast