Patents by Inventor Giorgio di Palma
Giorgio di Palma 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: 20190314606Abstract: A medical device system is provided herein which has an elongated, flexible hollow member with an expandable infusion segment attached at the most distal end of the device. The device has a plurality of fluid infusion ports on the expandable infusion segment for delivering an intended fluid to a target site in a body lumen. Additionally, a method is provided herein for infusing an intended fluid to a target site within a body lumen.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Applicant: AngioDynamics, Inc.Inventors: Giorgio di Palma, William A. Cartier, William M. Appling
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Patent number: 10350386Abstract: A medical device system is provided herein which has an elongated, flexible hollow member with an expandable infusion segment attached at the most distal end of the device. The device has a plurality of fluid infusion ports on the expandable infusion segment for delivering an intended fluid to a target site in a body lumen. Additionally, a method is provided herein for infusing an intended fluid to a target site within a body lumen.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: AngioDynamics, Inc.Inventors: Giorgio di Palma, William A Cartier, William M Appling
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Patent number: 10039900Abstract: A medical device system is provided herein which has an elongated, flexible hollow member with an expandable infusion segment attached at the most distal end of the device. The device has a plurality of fluid infusion ports on the expandable infusion segment for delivering an intended fluid to a target site in a body lumen. Additionally, a method is provided herein for infusing an intended fluid to a target site within a body lumen.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2011Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: AngioDynamics, Inc.Inventors: Giorgio di Palma, William A. Cartier, William M. Appling
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Publication number: 20160228681Abstract: A medical device system is provided herein which has an elongated, flexible hollow member with an expandable infusion segment attached at the most distal end of the device. The device has a plurality of fluid infusion ports on the expandable infusion segment for delivering an intended fluid to a target site in a body lumen. Additionally, a method is provided herein for infusing an intended fluid to a target site within a body lumen.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2015Publication date: August 11, 2016Applicant: AngioDynamics, Inc.Inventors: Giorgio di Palma, William A. Cartier, William M. Appling
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Patent number: 9055996Abstract: A compact retrievable blood clot filter has a filter section, a releasable lock and an alignment section connected to the filter section. Alignment ribs of the alignment section have releasable upstream ends that are locked to the filter by the releasable lock. The releasable upstream ends of the alignment ribs are capable of being released from the releasable lock so that during retrieval of the filter, the alignment ribs can slide through the endothelial tissue that may have grown around the alignment ribs.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2009Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: AngioDynamics, Inc.Inventors: William A. Cartier, Theodore J. Beyer, William M. Appling, Giorgio di Palma
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Patent number: 8858497Abstract: A medical device for removing a material from a hollow anatomical structure is provided. The device includes a radially expandable capture member. The device includes a treatment segment that is positioned distally of the capture member in use and having at least one exit port adapted for delivering a fluid agent to the material. The device includes an embolic capture device that is positioned distally of the treatment segment in use and including a radially expandable filter for capturing a part of the material which travels downstream of the treatment segment. Additionally, a method is provided herein for infusing, injecting, distributing, or releasing an intended fluid into a hollow anatomical structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2011Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Angio Dynamics, Inc.Inventors: Giorgio Di Palma, William A. Cartier, William Appling, William C. Hamilton, Jr.
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Patent number: 8475488Abstract: A compact retrievable blood clot filter has a filter section, a releasable lock and an alignment section connected to the filter section. Alignment ribs of the alignment section have releasable upstream ends that are locked to the filter by the releasable lock. The releasable upstream ends of the alignment ribs are capable of being released from the releasable lock so that during retrieval of the filter, the alignment ribs can slide through the endothelial tissue that may have grown around the alignment ribs.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2007Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: AngioDynamics, Inc.Inventors: William A. Cartier, Theodore J. Beyer, William M. Appling, Giorgio di Palma
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Patent number: 8409241Abstract: A compact blood clot filter having an alignment section that overlaps with a filter section in an axial direction is provided. The filter section has filter struts that extend radially and longitudinally from a hub. The alignment section has alignment struts in which the downstream end of each alignment strut forms a downstream junction with the downstream end of an adjacent alignment strut while the upstream end of each alignment strut forms an upstream junction with the upstream end of an adjacent alignment strut.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2010Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: AngioDynamics, Inc.Inventors: Theodore Beyer, Giorgio di Palma, William A. Cartier
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Publication number: 20120101471Abstract: A medical device system is provided here which has a disposable pump member capable of delivering fluid at a high pressure and a controlled rate. The disposable pump member has an internal power source that provides an energy source for a drivable pump used during treatment. Additionally, a method is provided herein for infusing, injecting, or delivering an intended fluid into a body vessel at a high pressure and a controlled rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2011Publication date: April 26, 2012Inventors: Giorgio di Palma, William A. Cartier
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Publication number: 20120059356Abstract: A medical device for removing a material from a hollow anatomical structure is provided. The device includes a radially expandable capture member. The device includes a treatment segment that is positioned distally of the capture member in use and having at least one exit port adapted for delivering a fluid agent to the material. The device includes an embolic capture device that is positioned distally of the treatment segment in use and including a radially expandable filter for capturing a part of the material which travels downstream of the treatment segment. Additionally, a method is provided herein for infusing, injecting, distributing, or releasing an intended fluid into a hollow anatomical structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2011Publication date: March 8, 2012Inventors: Giorgio di Palma, William A. Cartier, William Appling, William C. Hamilton, JR.
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Publication number: 20120059309Abstract: A medical device system is provided herein which has an elongated, flexible hollow member with an expandable infusion segment attached at the most distal end of the device. The device has a plurality of fluid infusion ports on the expandable infusion segment for delivering an intended fluid to a target site in a body lumen. Additionally, a method is provided herein for infusing an intended fluid to a target site within a body lumen.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2011Publication date: March 8, 2012Applicant: ANGIODYNAMICS, INC.Inventors: Giorgio di Palma, William A. Cartier, William M. Appling
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Patent number: 8118828Abstract: A compact retrievable blood clot filter and a method of retrieving the filter. The retrievable filter has a primary hub, a set of filter struts having a conical configuration and extending from the primary hub, and a set of alignment struts connected to the filter struts to provide centering of the filter. A set of control struts connected to the alignment struts has a secondary hub which is axially movable relative to the primary hub. Movement of the secondary hub causes the control struts to pull the alignment struts radially inward into a retractable state for retrieval of the filter.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2007Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: AngioDynamics, Inc.Inventors: William A. Cartier, Giorgio di Palma
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Publication number: 20110112527Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and devices involving a medical probe placeable into tissue where the probe has a high pushability yet is capable of being conformed to a patient's shape due to use of a removable stiffener and a flexible needle section allowing for placement, imaging, and treatment to be performed without removal of the probe regardless of environmental and physical restrictions related to devices used during the patient's procedure.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2009Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: AngioDynamics, Inc.Inventors: William C. Hamilton, JR., Giorgio di Palma
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Patent number: 7826904Abstract: A minimally-invasive fluid-cooled insertion sleeve assembly, with an attached balloon and distally-located penetrating tip, into which sleeve any of a group comprising a rigid rod, a microwave-radiator assembly and an ultrasonic-imaging transducer assembly may be inserted, constitutes a probe of the system. The sleeve assembly comprises spaced inner and outer plastic tubes with two fluid channels situated within the coaxial lumen between the inner and outer tubes. The fluid coolant input flows through the fluid channels into the balloon, thereby inflating the balloon, and then exits through that coaxial lumen. An alternative embodiment has no balloon. The method employs the probe for piercing sub-cutaneous tissue and then ablating deep-seated tumor tissue with microwave-radiation generated heat.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2006Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: AngioDynamics, Inc.Inventors: William M. Appling, Giorgio di Palma, Fred Sterzer, Daniel D. Mawhinney
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Publication number: 20100198252Abstract: A compact blood clot filter having an alignment section that overlaps with a filter section in an axial direction is provided. The filter section has filter struts that extend radially and longitudinally from a hub. The alignment section has alignment struts in which the downstream end of each alignment strut forms a downstream junction with the downstream end of an adjacent alignment strut while the upstream end of each alignment strut forms an upstream junction with the upstream end of an adjacent alignment strut.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2010Publication date: August 5, 2010Inventors: Theodore Beyer, Giorgio di Palma, William A. Cartier
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Publication number: 20100185180Abstract: A locking clamp is provided that is used for securing at least one tube. The locking clamp has a first and second end axially opposed end pieces and a plurality of locking members extending between the first and second end pieces. Living hinges connect the first and second end pieces to the locking members and allow selective movement of the locking members between an unlocked position and a locked position. In the locked position, the locking members can extend in overlying partially coextensive relation to each other, and the one set of locking members can be defined in a substantially axially opposed, coplanar parallel relationship to the second set of locking members. The clamp may be used during high pressure applications to secure one tube in relationship to another tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2010Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: ANGIODYNAMICS, INC.Inventor: Giorgio di Palma
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Patent number: 7722635Abstract: A compact blood clot filter having an alignment section that overlaps with a filter section in an axial direction is formed from a single tube without any welding points to provide high structural integrity, low profile and low manufacturing cost. The filter section has filter struts that extend radially and longitudinally from a hub. The alignment section has alignment struts in which the downstream end of each alignment strut forms a junction with the downstream end of an adjacent alignment strut while the upstream end of each alignment strut forms a junction with the upstream end of an adjacent alignment strut and with one of the filter struts to ensure symmetrical deployment of the filter struts and provide stable centering of the filter section.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2004Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: AngioDynamics, Inc.Inventors: Theodore Beyer, Giorgio di Palma, William A. Cartier
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Patent number: 7717900Abstract: A locking clamp is provided that is used for securing at least one tube. The locking clamp has a first and second end axially opposed end pieces and a plurality of locking members extending between the first and second end pieces. Living hinges connect the first and second end pieces to the locking members and allow selective movement of the locking members between an unlocked position and a locked position. In the locked position, the locking members can extend in overlying partially coextensive relation to each other, and the one set of locking members can be defined in a substantially axially opposed, coplanar parallel relationship to the second set of locking members. The clamp may be used during high pressure applications to secure one tube in relationship to another tube.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2009Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Angio Dynamics, Inc.Inventor: Giorgio di Palma
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Publication number: 20090299338Abstract: A locking clamp is provided that is used for securing at least one tube. The locking clamp has a first and second end axially opposed end pieces and a plurality of locking members extending between the first and second end pieces. Living hinges connect the first and second end pieces to the locking members and allow selective movement of the locking members between an unlocked position and a locked position. In the locked position, the locking members can extend in overlying partially coextensive relation to each other, and the one set of locking members can be defined in a substantially axially opposed, coplanar parallel relationship to the second set of locking members. The clamp may be used during high pressure applications to secure one tube in relationship to another tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2009Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: AngioDynamics, Inc.Inventor: Giorgio di Palma
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Publication number: 20090287242Abstract: A compact retrievable blood clot filter has a filter section, a releasable lock and an alignment section connected to the filter section. Alignment ribs of the alignment section have releasable upstream ends that are locked to the filter by the releasable lock. The releasable upstream ends of the alignment ribs are capable of being released from the releasable lock so that during retrieval of the filter, the alignment ribs can slide through the endothelial tissue that may have grown around the alignment ribs.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2009Publication date: November 19, 2009Inventors: William A. Cartier, Theodore J. Beyer, William M. Appling, Giorgio di Palma