Patents by Inventor Stephen J. Oommen

Stephen J. Oommen 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).

  • VALVE LOCKING MECHANISM
    Publication number: 20160067040
    Abstract: A medical device may include an elongate delivery sheath and a valve replacement implant disposed within a lumen of the delivery sheath, the implant including an anchor member reversibly actuatable between a delivery configuration and a deployed configuration. The implant may include at least one locking element configured to lock the anchor member in the deployed configuration, and at least one actuator element configured to engage the at least one locking element and actuate the anchor member between the delivery configuration and the deployed configuration. The at least one actuator element may include an unlocking member configured to compress a first locking portion of the at least one locking element to unlock the anchor member from the deployed configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Sumit Agrawal, Nawaz Maditheti, Eric M. Petersen, Stephen J. Oommen, James A. Schmidt