Patents by Inventor Robert F. Wilson
Robert F. Wilson 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: 20200397968Abstract: Gaseous nanobubbles are created and infused into the blood stream to therapeutic effect such as oxygenation. The nanobubbles may be created inside or outside of the patient, either during infusion or prior to infusion. CO2 is extracted from the blood to improve oxygen.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2019Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: Demetris Yannopoulos, Robert F. Wilson
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Publication number: 20200368086Abstract: A mattress system is provided that is optimized for the hospital setting and includes a guiderail system that accepts a variety of accessories for attachment thereto. The guiderail system may have integrated data lines, power lines, gas lines, and/or fluid lines. Also provided are radioabsorbant shields, trays and other components designed for optimal use with the mattress system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: Egg Medical, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Wilson, John P. Gainor, Uma S. Valeti
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Publication number: 20200329981Abstract: One method for assessing a vessel can include obtaining a set of first location pressure measurements at a first location in the vessel over a first time period and a set of second location pressure measurements at a second location in the vessel over the first time period. This method can further include identifying a first leading characteristic associated with one or more pressure measurements in the set of first location pressure measurements, a second leading characteristic associated with one or more pressure measurements in the set of second location pressure measurements, a first trailing characteristic associated with one or more pressure measurements in the set of first location pressure measurements, and a second trailing characteristic associated with one or more pressure measurements in the set of second location pressure measurements. And, this method can include calculating a pressure ratio using pressure measurements between the identified characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventors: Jung W. Suh, Todd Suchecki, Thomas M. Snyder, Robert F. Wilson
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Patent number: 10779796Abstract: An intravascular imaging system can include a catheter, a position sensor, and an intravascular imaging engine for receiving information from the catheter and the position sensor. The position sensor can include a reference element and a movable element, which can have a movable element position that is correlated to the position of an imaging transducer in the catheter. The relative position between the movable element and a reference element can be determined and can correspond to the relative movement of the transducer within a patient's vasculature. The imaging engine can receive position information from the position sensor and image information from the catheter and generate a display using the received information. Because relative movement of the transducer can be determined, spatial relationships between sets of imaging data can be determined, and image data from multiple transducer locations can be combined into one image.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: ACIST MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Jason F. Hiltner, Robert F. Wilson, Sidney D. Nystrom
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Patent number: 10743774Abstract: One method for assessing a vessel can include obtaining a set of first location pressure measurements at a first location in the vessel over a first time period and a set of second location pressure measurements at a second location in the vessel over the first time period. This method can further include identifying a first leading characteristic associated with one or more pressure measurements in the set of first location pressure measurements, a second leading characteristic associated with one or more pressure measurements in the set of second location pressure measurements, a first trailing characteristic associated with one or more pressure measurements in the set of first location pressure measurements, and a second trailing characteristic associated with one or more pressure measurements in the set of second location pressure measurements. And, this method can include calculating a pressure ratio using pressure measurements between the identified characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: ACIST MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Jung W. Suh, Todd Suchecki, Thomas M. Snyder, Robert F. Wilson
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Publication number: 20200093446Abstract: X-ray procedure tables with improved structural strength that enable radiation shielding and integrated medical device and monitoring systems. The design allows the incorporation of an integrated patient support structure, radiation shielding and associated devices and conduits for medical care in procedures that employ X-ray imaging.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: Egg Medical, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Wilson, John P. Gainor, James Montague, Uma S. Valeti
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Publication number: 20200000419Abstract: A system of shields designed to provide substantially greater protection, head to toe, against radiation exposure to health care workers in a hospital room during procedures which require real-time imaging. The shields are placed around the patient and the x-ray table and provide protection even when the x-ray tube is moved to various angles around the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: Egg Medical, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Wilson, Uma S. Valeti, John P. Gainor
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Publication number: 20190357778Abstract: Embodiments for assessing flow at an anatomical region of interest are disclosed. One embodiment uses pulsed contrast media injections at a known frequency along with corresponding image data to derive a measurement of blood flow velocity at the region of interest. Another embodiment uses incremental changes in known contrast media injection flow rates to match the blood flow rate relative to one of these known contrast media injection flow rates based on the presence of a particular indicia in image data. For example, this indicia can be the flow of contrast media out from a coronary artery back into the aorta or the onset of a steady state pixel density. A further embodiment uses contrast media injections that are synchronized with the cardiac cycle. For example, contrast media injections can be synchronized with the diastolic and/or systolic phases and used to measure blood flow accordingly.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Robert F. Wilson, Todd Suchecki, Thomas M. Snyder, Alan Evans, Bryan Brutlag
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Patent number: 10463832Abstract: A catheter with a spring tip that facilitates atraumatic initial placement and also continues to protect tissue contacted by the catheter device subsequent to the initial placement. The spring tip is shock-absorbing and axially compliant and allows enhanced use of various devices in conjunction with the tip such as bioptomes, electrodes, needles, flushing catheters, delivery catheters, and the like. The atraumatic shock-absorbing tip could include conductive or non-conductive materials.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: MedWerks, LLCInventors: Uma S. Valeti, Robert F. Wilson, John P. Gainor
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Publication number: 20190320911Abstract: One method for assessing a vessel can include obtaining a set of first location pressure measurements at a first location in the vessel over a first time period and a set of second location pressure measurements at a second location in the vessel over the first time period. This method can further include identifying a first leading characteristic associated with one or more pressure measurements in the set of first location pressure measurements, a second leading characteristic associated with one or more pressure measurements in the set of second location pressure measurements, a first trailing characteristic associated with one or more pressure measurements in the set of first location pressure measurements, and a second trailing characteristic associated with one or more pressure measurements in the set of second location pressure measurements. And, this method can include calculating a pressure ratio using pressure measurements between the identified characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2018Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: Jung W. Suh, Todd Suchecki, Thomas M. Snyder, Robert F. Wilson
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Patent number: 10441231Abstract: A system of shields designed to provide substantially greater protection, head to toe, against radiation exposure to health care workers in a hospital room during procedures which require real-time imaging. The shields are placed around the patient and the x-ray table and provide protection even when the x-ray tube is moved to various angles around the patient.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Egg Medical, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Wilson, Uma S. Valeti, John P. Gainor
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Publication number: 20190232020Abstract: A catheter that is configured to achieve high velocity injections of contrast solution that will not readily wash out in retrograde blood flow. The distal end of the catheter can include a plurality of fluid outlet openings. The fluid outlet openings are spaced circumferentially around the circumference of the catheter and the fluid outlet openings have ejection axes that are angled in a direction toward the distal end so that a velocity component of the ejected contrast solution is against or opposite the retrograde blood flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Jordan M. POLLACK, Michael SEFFREN, Robert F. WILSON
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Publication number: 20190053718Abstract: An intravascular sensor delivery device for measuring a physiological parameter of a patient, such as blood pressure, within a vascular structure or passage. In some embodiments, the device can be used to measure the pressure gradient across a stenotic lesion or heart valve. The sensor delivery device can be sized to pass over different sizes of guidewires to enable usage in coronary and peripheral arteries, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2018Publication date: February 21, 2019Inventors: Dale R. Manstrom, Amy Raatikka, Robert F. Wilson, Edward R. Miller, Jung Kwon Pak
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Publication number: 20190038241Abstract: A transparent radiation shield, attachable to a patient support platform, and movable to shield a physician from imaging radiation, includes a transparent computer display that is controllable to provide a data overlay on the shield pertaining to patient data and/or x-ray images.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: Egg Medical, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Wilson, John P. Gainor, James Montague, Uma S. Valeti
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Patent number: 10188517Abstract: A delivery device usable to deliver an inverting implant is provided that includes a positioning mechanism that automatically initiates the inversion process once a predetermined length of the implant has exited a delivery catheter. The positioning mechanism allows the implant to be safely and accurately deployed with reduced operator experience and in a greater variety of target locations.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: HLT, Inc.Inventors: John P. Gainor, Robert F. Wilson, Dale K. Nelson, Joseph S. Czyscon, Kyle Thunstrom
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Patent number: 10105064Abstract: An intravascular sensor delivery device for measuring a physiological parameter of a patient, such as blood pressure, within a vascular structure or passage. In some embodiments, the device can be used to measure the pressure gradient across a stenotic lesion or heart valve. For example, such a device may be used to measure fractional flow reserve (FFR) across a stenotic lesion in order to assess the severity of the lesion. The sensor delivery device has a distal sleeve configured to pass or slide over a standard medical guidewire. Some distance back from the sensor and distal sleeve, the device separates from the guidewire to permit independent control of the sensor delivery device and the guidewire. The sensor delivery device can be sized to pass over different sizes of guidewires to enable usage in coronary and peripheral arteries, for example.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: ACIST Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Dale R. Manstrom, Amy Raatikka, Robert F. Wilson, Edward R. Miller, Jung Kwon Pak
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Publication number: 20180296173Abstract: A system of shields designed to provide substantially greater protection, head to toe, against radiation exposure to health care workers in a hospital room during procedures which require real-time imaging. The shields are placed around the patient and the x-ray table and provide protection even when the x-ray tube is moved to various angles around the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Applicant: Egg Medical, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Wilson, Uma S. Valeti, John P. Gainor
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Publication number: 20180193592Abstract: A catheter with a spring tip that facilitates atraumatic initial placement and also continues to protect tissue contacted by the catheter device subsequent to the initial placement. The spring tip is shock-absorbing and axially compliant and allows enhanced use of various devices in conjunction with the tip such as bioptomes, electrodes, needles, flushing catheters, delivery catheters, and the like. The atraumatic shock-absorbing tip could include conductive or non-conductive materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2018Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: MedWerks, LLCInventors: Uma S. Valeti, Robert F. Wilson, John P. Gainor
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Patent number: 10016172Abstract: A system of shields designed to provide substantially greater protection, head to toe, against radiation exposure to health care workers in a hospital room during procedures which require real-time imaging. The shields are placed around the patient and the x-ray table and provide protection even when the x-ray tube is moved to various angles around the patient.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2016Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Egg Medical, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Wilson, Uma S. Valeti, John P. Gainor
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Patent number: 10010251Abstract: An intravascular sensor delivery device for measuring a physiological parameter of a patient, such as blood pressure, within a vascular structure or passage. In some embodiments, the device can be used to measure the pressure gradient across a stenotic lesion or heart valve. For example, such a device may be used to measure fractional flow reserve (FFR) across a stenotic lesion in order to assess the severity of the lesion. The sensor delivery device has a distal sleeve configured to pass or slide over a standard medical guidewire. Some distance back from the sensor and distal sleeve, the device separates from the guidewire to permit independent control of the sensor delivery device and the guidewire. The sensor delivery device can be sized to pass over different sizes of guidewires to enable usage in coronary and peripheral arteries, for example.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: ACIST Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Dale R. Manstrom, Amy R. Raatikka, Robert F. Wilson, Edward R. Miller, Jung Kwon Pak