Patents by Inventor (Lenny) Kinh-Luan D. Dao

(Lenny) Kinh-Luan D. Dao 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).

  • Patent number: 7402172
    Abstract: The present invention includes systems, methods and apparatus. A system in accord with the present invention may include an intraluminal patch sized to fit within a lumen and an expandable therapeutic delivery device. The patch in this embodiment may have an adhesive region on an exposed surface and a drug reservoir region in communication with the exposed surface. By comparison, a method employing the present invention may include placing an intraluminal patch over an expandable delivery device, advancing the delivery device and the expandable patch to a target site, expanding the delivery device so that the patch adheres to the target site, and contracting and withdrawing the delivery device. In so doing the patch may remain to emit a drug to the target site over a sustained period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Yem Chin, (Lenny) Kinh-Luan D. Dao, Paul Scopton, (Samuel) Sheng-Ping Zhong