Patents by Inventor Brad Jacobsen
Brad Jacobsen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20160287342Abstract: Disclosed is a system for determining a location and configuration of an expandable member. A flexible coil can be provided on a shape changing portion, such as an expandable portion, to measure a signal as the shape changes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Brad Jacobsen, Bruce M. Burg, Andrew Bzostek
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Publication number: 20160287349Abstract: Disclosed herein, a power supply may be recharged with a generally used system. In various embodiments, cleaning systems may be used to affect a generator to cause the generator to charge a power supply. Such charging systems may be used without the need for separate or specialized power charging systems. A charging source or system may, therefore, also charge a power supply without requiring additional steps.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Andrew BZOSTEK, Vince J. DOERR, Brad JACOBSEN, Duane SMITH
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Publication number: 20160287111Abstract: Disclosed is a system that includes pressure sensors to assist in monitoring pressure at a selected location. Pressure sensors may be applied to or incorporated into catheters and/or shunts positioned within a patient. A monitoring system may then receive signals from the pressure sensors to monitor pressure at the location over time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventor: Brad JACOBSEN
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Patent number: 9339601Abstract: A support tool or a supply assembly that delivers a functional fluid to a patient includes an antenna array for receiving or sensing a navigation field. The navigation field can be generated from a localizer. The localizer can be incorporated or included in an implanted device.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2011Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Scott L. Kalpin, Andrew Bzostek, Steven L. Hartmann, Matthew W. Koenig, Brad Jacobsen, Scott A. Sarkinen, Peter J. Borowitz, Bradley A. Jascob
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Publication number: 20160120609Abstract: An instrument tracking device for cooperating with an instrument during a surgical procedure where the instrument has an elongated body extending along a first longitudinal axis and including a working member at a distal tip includes a body having a distal end and a proximal end. An opening can be formed through the body along a second longitudinal axis. The opening can define a passthrough in the body from the distal end to the proximal end. A first tracking coil can be disposed in the body and can define a first tracking coil axis that is substantially coaxial with the second longitudinal axis of the body. A connection mechanism cooperates between the elongated housing and the body that secures the body to the elongated housing of the instrument upon passing at least a portion of the elongated housing through the passthrough of the body in an assembled position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2016Publication date: May 5, 2016Inventors: Brad Jacobsen, Ali Mowlai-Ashtiani, Bruce M. Burg, Ross Smetzer, Steven L. Hartmann, Andrew Bzostek, Matthew J. Nadeau, Matthew W. Koenig
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Publication number: 20160113729Abstract: A surgical instrument is disclosed having an elongated body portion having a proximal end and a distal end. The body portion is formed from a plastically deformable material such that the body portion can be bent between the proximal and distal ends from a first configuration to a second bent configuration and maintains the bent configuration. A flexible circuit having at least a pair of lead wires disposed around the body portion. The pair of lead wires are configured to conform to the bent configuration of the body portion such that they do not break during bending of the body portion. A tracking device adapted to cooperate with a navigation system to track the distal end of the instrument is coupled to the flexible circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2016Publication date: April 28, 2016Inventors: Bruce M. BURG, Ross SMETZER, Andrew BZOSTEK, Steven L. HARTMANN, Brad JACOBSEN, Matthew J. NADEAU
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Patent number: 9320571Abstract: Image data can be obtained with an imaging device. A location of the imaging device relative to a subject can be determined. A location of an instrument can be tracked relative to the subject using a tracking system. Also, the tracked location of the instrument can be illustrated relative to the image data.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2009Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Dale F. Seeley, Phillip Falkner, Michael Hegland, Steven L. Hartmann, Brad Jacobsen
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Patent number: 9232985Abstract: An instrument tracking device for cooperating with an instrument during a surgical procedure where the instrument has an elongated body extending along a first longitudinal axis and including a working member at a distal tip includes a body having a distal end and a proximal end. An opening can be formed through the body along a second longitudinal axis. The opening can define a passthrough in the body from the distal end to the proximal end. A first tracking coil can be disposed in the body and can define a first tracking coil axis that is substantially coaxial with the second longitudinal axis of the body. A connection mechanism cooperates between the elongated housing and the body that secures the body to the elongated housing of the instrument upon passing at least a portion of the elongated housing through the passthrough of the body in an assembled position.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2013Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: MEDTRONIC XOMED, INC.Inventors: Brad Jacobsen, Ali Mowlai-Ashtiani, Bruce M. Burg, Ross Smetzer, Steven L. Hartmann, Andrew Bzostek, Matthew J. Nadeau, Matthew W. Koenig
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Patent number: 9226688Abstract: A flexible circuit assembly can include a base layer, a plurality of circuit traces and an insulative layer. The plurality of circuit traces can each be coupled to a pair of circuit pads, and the circuit traces can be formed on an upper side of the base layer. The insulative layer can be formed over the circuit traces to isolate the circuit traces from an external environment. The base layer, plurality of circuit traces and insulative layer can form a flexible circuit sheet. The base layer and the insulative layer can include material properties and a thickness configured to facilitate the flexible circuit sheet being flexible such that the flexible circuit sheet is adapted to conform to a non-planar surface of the medical device.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2013Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: MEDTRONIC XOMED, INC.Inventors: Brad Jacobsen, Bruce M. Burg, Abhishek Jain, Andrew Bzostek
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Patent number: 9226689Abstract: A surgical instrument is disclosed having an elongated body portion having a proximal end and a distal end. The body portion is formed from a plastically deformable material such that the body portion can be bent between the proximal and distal ends from a first configuration to a second bent configuration and maintains the bent configuration. A flexible circuit having at least a pair of lead wires disposed around the body portion. The pair of lead wires are configured to conform to the bent configuration of the body portion such that they do not break during bending of the body portion. A tracking device adapted to cooperate with a navigation system to track the distal end of the instrument is coupled to the flexible circuit.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2013Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: MEDTRONIC XOMED, INC.Inventors: Brad Jacobsen, Bruce M. Burg, Orey G. Block, Andrew Bzostek, Vince J. Doerr, Abhishek Jain, Brandon Merkl, Joseph Thomas Cilke
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Patent number: 9226800Abstract: A surgical instrument can include a body, a tracking device, and a handle. The body can include proximal and distal ends, and a flow passage extending therebetween. The body can be formed from a malleable material such that it can be bent between the proximal and distal ends from a first configuration to a second bent configuration and maintain the bent configuration. The tracking device can be positioned adjacent the distal end for tracking a distal tip of the instrument. The handle can be coupled to the proximal end of the body and can include an internal flow passage in fluid communication with the body flow passage. The tracking device can include a pair of lead wires wound around the body to the handle, where the wound wires can conform to the bent configuration of the body such that they do not strain or break during bending of the body.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2011Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: MEDTRONIC XOMED, INC.Inventors: Bruce M. Burg, Ross Smetzer, Andrew Bzostek, Steven L. Hartmann, Brad Jacobsen, Matthew J. Nadeau
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Patent number: 9216257Abstract: A system to generate a navigation field relative to an implanted device is disclosed. The system can include a small and/or thin localizer array positioned in the implanted device. A power management scheme and circuits can be provided to conserve and resource power in the implanted device.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2011Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Scott L. Kalpin, Andrew Bzostek, Steven L. Hartmann, Matthew W. Koenig, Brad Jacobsen, Scott A. Sarkinen, Peter J. Borowitz, Bradley A. Jascob
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Patent number: 9113812Abstract: A system can include an implantable device, an instrument, a display device and a processor. The implantable device can include a port and a localizer for generating a navigation field. The instrument can include a tracking device for sensing the navigation field. The processor can be operably coupled to the tracking and display devices and operable to determine a real-time location of the instrument relative to the port and a trajectory of the instrument relative to an insertion axis of the port. The processor system can be operable to cause the display device to graphically render the instrument as a plurality of two or three-dimensional rings positioned around an axis coincident with the determined trajectory and in spaced relation to each other along the axis. A first ring of the plurality of rings can be positioned at the determined instrument location relative to a graphical representation of the port location.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2013Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Scott L. Kalpin, Andrew Bzostek, Steven L. Hartmann, Matthew W. Koenig, Brad Jacobsen, Scott A. Sarkinen, Peter J. Borowitz, Bradley A. Jascob
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Publication number: 20150164548Abstract: A guide tube is used for guiding an instrument through a hole within tissue of a patient. The guide tube includes a cannula member defining a passage extending therethrough along an axis. The passage is operable to receive the instrument and guide the instrument through the hole within the tissue of the patient. The guide tube also includes an expansion member that is moveably coupled to the cannula member to selectively move radially between a retracted position and an expanded position relative to the axis of the cannula member. The expansion member is at least partially insertable into the hole when the expansion member is in the retracted position. The expansion member is operable to engage with a surface of the hole when the expansion member is in the expanded position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2015Publication date: June 18, 2015Inventors: Bruce M. BURG, Brad JACOBSEN
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Patent number: 8961535Abstract: A guide tube is used for guiding an instrument through a hole within tissue of a patient. The guide tube includes a cannula member defining a passage extending therethrough along an axis. The passage is operable to receive the instrument and guide the instrument through the hole within the tissue of the patient. The guide tube also includes an expansion member that is moveably coupled to the cannula member to selectively move radially between a retracted position and an expanded position relative to the axis of the cannula member. The expansion member is at least partially insertable into the hole when the expansion member is in the retracted position. The expansion member is operable to engage with a surface of the hole when the expansion member is in the expanded position.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Medtronic Navigation, Inc.Inventors: Bruce M. Burg, Brad Jacobsen
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Publication number: 20140323852Abstract: An electromagnetic device includes a jig and multiple wires. The jig includes a center member and coil-separating blocks. The coil-separating blocks protrude from the center member and are separated from each other to provide a coil channels. Each of the wires is wrapped on the jig, around the center member, and in one of the coil channels to form one of a multiple coils. Each of the coils is configured to connect to an electromagnetic navigation system and generate respective electromagnetic fields to be emitted relative to a subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2013Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: Medtronic Navigation, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Wald, Bruce M. Burg, Steven L. Hartmann, Brad Jacobsen, Jeffrey Swetnam
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Publication number: 20140275989Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system for navigating an instrument relative to a patient that can be near a field distorting feature. A localizer can generate an electromagnetic field that is sensed by a tracking device to determine a location of the tracking device with the sensed electromagnetic field. The system and related method can assist in determining whether a navigation field is distorted near a tracking device of the instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Medtronic Navigation, Inc.Inventors: Brad JACOBSEN, Andrew Bzostek, Steven L. Hartmann
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Publication number: 20140275987Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system for navigating an instrument relative to a configurable theater system. The configurable theater instrument can be any instrument positioned in a theater that is configured to have more than one position. A localizer can generate an electromagnetic field that is sensed by a tracking device to determine a location of the tracking device with the sensed electromagnetic field.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Medtronic Navigation, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Bzostek, Brad Jacobsen
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Publication number: 20140276004Abstract: A surgical instrument can include a body, a tracking device, and a handle. The tracking device can be positioned adjacent the distal end for tracking a distal tip of the instrument. The tracking device can include a pair of lead traces defined on a tubular flex circuit around the body to the handle, where the traces define at least on coil configured to communicate with a navigation system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Medtronic Navigation, Inc.Inventors: Frank STRUPECK, Abhishek JAIN, Bruce M. BURG, Brad JACOBSEN
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Publication number: 20140148692Abstract: Disclosed is a surgical navigation system for tracking an instrument relative to a patient. The system can track a portion of the patient, an instrument, and/or both relative to image data, a coordinate system, an atlas, a morphed atlas, or combinations thereof. The system can include a tracking device on the instrument to provide six degree of freedom information regarding the location of the instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2014Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: Medtronic Navigation, Inc.Inventors: Steven L. HARTMANN, Bruce L. BURG, Andrew BZOSTEK, Matthew W. KOENIG, Brad JACOBSEN, Bradley A. JASCOB, Paul KESSMAN