Patents by Inventor Geoff Orth

Geoff Orth 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).

  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REMOVAL OF IMPLANTABLE INTRAVASCULAR DEVICES
    Publication number: 20110112548
    Abstract: Improved methods, systems and apparatuses for extracting devices implanted within the vasculature of a patient are provided, including a method of extracting an intravascular device anchored in a vasculature of a patient, the device including a device body and a lead coupled to the device body, the lead having a distal end including an electrode, the distal end being fixed in a heart of the patient, the method comprising forming an incision in the vasculature, disconnecting the lead from the device body, removing the distal end of the lead from the heart, withdrawing the lead from the patient, disconnecting the device body from an anchor, and withdrawing the device body from the patient via the incision.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Daniel Fifer, Richard Glenn, Jeffrey Smith, Geoff Orth, Michael Williams, William Sanders, Earl Bardsley, Wendy Graczyk