Patents by Inventor Thomas Wilder, III
Thomas Wilder, III 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: 20230338048Abstract: Methods for restoring blood flow in occluded blood vessels using an apparatus having a self-expandable distal segment that is pre-formed to assume a superimposed structure in an unconstrained condition but can be made to take on a volume-reduced form making it possible to introduce it with a microcatheter and a push wire arranged at the proximal end, with the distal segment in its superimposed structure assuming the form of a longitudinally open tube and having a mesh structure of interconnected strings or filaments or struts. In a preferred embodiment, the distal segment has a tapering structure at its proximal end where the strings or filaments or struts converge at a connection point.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2022Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Earl Howard Slee, Thomas Wilder, III, Thomas McCarthy, Mark Philip Ashby, Sanjay Shrivastava
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Publication number: 20230079665Abstract: Methods for restoring blood flow in occluded blood vessels using an apparatus having a self-expandable distal segment that is pre-formed to assume a superimposed structure in an unconstrained condition but can be made to take on a volume-reduced form making it possible to introduce it with a microcatheter and a push wire arranged at the proximal end, with the distal segment in its superimposed structure assuming the form of a longitudinally open tube and having a mesh structure of interconnected strings or filaments or struts. In a preferred embodiment, the distal segment has a tapering structure at its proximal end where the strings or filaments or struts converge at a connection point.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventors: Earl Howard Slee, Thomas Wilder, III, Thomas McCarthy, Mark Philip Ashby, Sanjay Shrivastava
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Patent number: 11529156Abstract: Methods for restoring blood flow in occluded blood vessels using an apparatus having a self-expandable distal segment that is pre-formed to assume a superimposed structure in an unconstrained condition but can be made to take on a volume-reduced form making it possible to introduce it with a microcatheter and a push wire arranged at the proximal end, with the distal segment in its superimposed structure assuming the form of a longitudinally open tube and having a mesh structure of interconnected strings or filaments or struts. In a preferred embodiment, the distal segment has a tapering structure at its proximal end where the strings or filaments or struts converge at a connection point.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: COVIDIEN LPInventors: Earl Howard Slee, Thomas Wilder, III, Thomas McCarthy, Mark Philip Ashby, Sanjay Shrivastava
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Publication number: 20190350604Abstract: Methods for restoring blood flow in occluded blood vessels using an apparatus having a self-expandable distal segment that is pre-formed to assume a superimposed structure in an unconstrained condition but can be made to take on a volume-reduced form making it possible to introduce it with a microcatheter and a push wire arranged at the proximal end, with the distal segment in its superimposed structure assuming the form of a longitudinally open tube and having a mesh structure of interconnected strings or filaments or struts. In a preferred embodiment, the distal segment has a tapering structure at its proximal end where the strings or filaments or struts converge at a connection point.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2019Publication date: November 21, 2019Inventors: Earl Howard Slee, Thomas Wilder, III, Thomas McCarthy, Mark Philip Ashby, Sanjay Shrivastava
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Patent number: 9161766Abstract: Methods for restoring blood flow in occluded blood vessels using an apparatus having a self-expandable distal segment that is pre-formed to assume a superimposed structure in an unconstrained condition but can be made to take on a volume-reduced form making it possible to introduce it with a microcatheter and a push wire arranged at the proximal end, with the distal segment in its superimposed structure assuming the form of a longitudinally open tube and having a mesh structure of interconnected strings or filaments or struts. In a preferred embodiment, the distal segment has a tapering structure at its proximal end where the strings or filaments or struts converge at a connection point.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Earl Howard Slee, Thomas Wilder, III, Thomas McCarthy, Mark Philip Ashby
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Patent number: 8940003Abstract: Methods for restoring blood flow in occluded blood vessels using an apparatus having a self expandable distal segment that is pre-formed to assume a superimposed structure in an unconstrained condition but can be made to take on a volume-reduced form making it possible to introduce it with a microcatheter and a push wire arranged at the proximal end, with the distal segment in its superimposed structure assuming the form of a longitudinally open tube and having a mesh structure of interconnected strings or filaments or struts. In a preferred embodiment, the distal segment has a tapering structure at its proximal end where the strings or filaments or struts converge at a connection point.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2009Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Earl Howard Slee, Thomas Wilder, III, Thomas McCarthy, David Franco, Mark Philip Ashby, Sanjay Shrivastava
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Publication number: 20140343596Abstract: Methods for restoring blood flow in occluded blood vessels using an apparatus having a self-expandable distal segment that is pre-formed to assume a superimposed structure in an unconstrained condition but can be made to take on a volume-reduced form making it possible to introduce it with a microcatheter and a push wire arranged at the proximal end, with the distal segment in its superimposed structure assuming the form of a longitudinally open tube and having a mesh structure of interconnected strings or filaments or struts. In a preferred embodiment, the distal segment has a tapering structure at its proximal end where the strings or filaments or struts converge at a connection point.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventors: Earl Howard SLEE, Thomas WILDER, III, Thomas MCCARTHY, Mark Philip ASHBY
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Patent number: 8679142Abstract: Methods for restoring blood flow in occluded blood vessels using an apparatus having a self expandable distal segment that is pre-formed to assume a superimposed structure in an unconstrained condition but can be made to take on a volume-reduced form making it possible to introduce it with a microcatheter and a push wire arranged at the proximal end, with the distal segment in its superimposed structure assuming the form of a longitudinally open tube and having a mesh structure of interconnected strings or filaments or struts. In a preferred embodiment, the distal segment has a tapering structure at its proximal end where the strings or filaments or struts converge at a connection point.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2012Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Earl Howard Slee, Thomas Wilder, III, Thomas McCarthy, Mark Philip Ashby
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Publication number: 20110060212Abstract: Methods for restoring blood flow in occluded blood vessels using an apparatus having a self expandable distal segment that is pre-formed to assume a superimposed structure in an unconstrained condition but can be made to take on a volume-reduced form making it possible to introduce it with a microcatheter and a push wire arranged at the proximal end, with the distal segment in its superimposed structure assuming the form of a longitudinally open tube and having a mesh structure of interconnected strings or filaments or struts. In a preferred embodiment, the distal segment has a tapering structure at its proximal end where the strings or filaments or struts converge at a connection point.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2009Publication date: March 10, 2011Applicant: MICRO THERAPEUTICS, INC.Inventors: Earl Howard Slee, Thomas Wilder, III, Thomas McCarthy, David Franco, Mark Philip Ashby, Sanjay Shrivastava