Patents by Inventor Timothy A. Limon
Timothy A. Limon 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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Patent number: 8585733Abstract: Methods, systems, devices and assemblies are provided for treating a patient by: making an incision or puncture though the patient's skin over the abdominal cavity; establishing an initial tract through an opening formed by the incision or puncture; advancing an instrument through the tract; contacting a distal end portion of the instrument against an inner surface of the abdominal cavity; driving at least one stitching needle through the inner surface of the abdominal cavity; continuing the driving until the at least one stitching needle exits the inner surface of the abdominal cavity; anchoring a suture carried by each of the at least one stitching needle to a suture anchor at an exit location, respectively; and applying tension to each of the sutures.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2009Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Vibrynt, IncInventors: Matthew B. Newell, Pankaj Rathi, Robert M. George, Marlo Dreissigacker, Narvel M. Brooks, III, Shuji Uemura, Theodore M. Bender, Joshua Makower, Dane A. Johnson, Brian K. Shiu, Pablo G. Acosta, Timothy A. Limon, Beverly Huss, Crystine M. Lee
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Publication number: 20130253633Abstract: An expandable stent is implanted in a body lumen, such as a coronary artery, peripheral artery, or other body lumen for treating an area of vulnerable plaque. The invention provides for a an intravascular stent having a plurality of cylindrical rings connected by undulating links. The stent has a high degree of flexibility in the longitudinal direction, yet has adequate vessel wall coverage and radial strength sufficient to hold open an artery or other body lumen. A central section is positioned between distal and proximal sections and is aligned with the area of vulnerable plaque to enhance growth of endothelial cells over the fibrous cap of the vulnerable plaque to reinforce the area and reduce the likelihood of rupture.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: ADVANCED CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS, INC.Inventor: Timothy Limon
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Publication number: 20130178877Abstract: Methods, instruments and systems are provided for separating opposite walls of the stomach by extragastric application of suction. Plication of the stomach can be performed between the separated walls after which the separate walls are brought back toward one another. In another aspect, methods, instruments, devices and systems are provided for reducing the effective volume of a stomach by performing one or more extragastric plications of the stomach.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Inventors: Theodore M. Bender, Joshua Makower, Brian K. Shiu, Pablo G. Acosta, Robert M. George, Lisa Serventi, Ed Orbeta, Scott Early, Earl A. Bright, II, Timothy A. Limon
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Patent number: 8460321Abstract: Methods, systems, devices and assemblies are provided for treating a patient by: making an incision or puncture though the patient's skin over the abdominal cavity; establishing an initial tract through an opening formed by the incision or puncture; advancing an instrument through the tract; contacting a distal end portion of the instrument against an inner surface of the abdominal cavity; driving at least one stitching needle through the inner surface of the abdominal cavity; continuing the driving until the at least one stitching needle exits the inner surface of the abdominal cavity; anchoring a suture carried by each of the at least one stitching needle to a suture anchor at an exit location, respectively; and applying tension to each of the sutures.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2011Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Vibrynt, Inc.Inventors: Matthew B. Newell, Pankaj Rathi, Robert M. George, Marlo Dreissigacker, Narvel M. Brooks, III, Shuji Uemura, Theodore M. Bender, Joshua Makower, Dane A. Johnson, Brian K. Shiu, Pablo G. Acosta, Timothy A. Limon, Beverly Huss, Crystine M. Lee
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Patent number: 8439966Abstract: An expandable stent is implanted in a body lumen, such as a coronary artery, peripheral artery, or other body lumen for treating an area of vulnerable plaque. The invention provides for a an intravascular stent having a plurality of cylindrical rings connected by undulating links. The stent has a high degree of flexibility in the longitudinal direction, yet has adequate vessel wall coverage and radial strength sufficient to hold open an artery or other body lumen. A central section is positioned between distal and proximal sections and is aligned with the area of vulnerable plaque to enhance growth of endothelial cells over the fibrous cap of the vulnerable plaque to reinforce the area and reduce the likelihood of rupture.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventor: Timothy Limon
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Publication number: 20130102876Abstract: An implantable port system which in at least one embodiment includes a base having an upper surface configured to be positioned under and in contact with a first tissue surface in a body, and a port housing having a lower surface configured to be positioned over a second tissue surface above the first tissue surface. The base and the port housing may be separate from one another and do not contact each other at the time of positioning the base. The base and port may be connected together upon positioning the port in contact with the second tissue surface. A method of implanting a port system may include installing at least a portion of a base of the system beneath a tissue layer in a body, and attaching a port housing to the base at a location above the tissue layer, wherein the port housing is not in contact with the base during the installation of a least a part of the base system beneath the tissue layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2012Publication date: April 25, 2013Inventors: Timothy A. Limon, Brian K. Shiu, Theodore M. Bender, Joshua Makower
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Patent number: 8414638Abstract: Polymer stents with break-away links and methods of forming the links for improved stent retention on an expandable member during delivery are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2008Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.Inventors: Stephen D. Pacetti, Timothy A. Limon, Yunbing Wang
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Patent number: 8388673Abstract: A strut pattern of an endoprosthesis includes a plurality of W-shape cells that define a tubular body, the W-shaped cells at the opposite ends of the tubular body have a modified configuration that is different than the W-shaped cells at the middle portion of the tubular body. At the distal end of the tubular body, the W-shaped cells have crests with axial positions that are axially spaced apart, and have troughs with circumferential positions that are spaced apart. At the intermediate and distal end of the tubular body, the W-shaped cells crests with axial positions that coincide and have troughs with circumferential positions that coincide. The strut pattern is cut from a tubular precursor construct made of PLLA that has been radially expanded and axially extended by blow molding.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2009Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.Inventors: Arlene Sucy Yang, Kevin Jow, Andrea Dawn Morrison, Timothy A. Limon
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Patent number: 8382775Abstract: Methods, instruments and systems are provided for separating opposite walls of the stomach by extragastric application of suction. Plication of the stomach can be performed between the separated walls after which the separate walls are brought back toward one another. In another aspect, methods, instruments, devices and systems are provided for reducing the effective volume of a stomach by performing one or more extragastric plications of the stomach.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2012Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Vibrynt, Inc.Inventors: Theodore M. Bender, Joshua Makower, Brian K. Shiu, Pablo G. Acosta, Robert M. George, Lisa Serventi, Ed Orbeta, Scott Early, Earl A. Bright, II, Timothy A. Limon
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Patent number: 8343209Abstract: An expandable stent is implanted in a body lumen, such as a coronary artery, peripheral artery, or other body lumen for treating an area of vulnerable plaque. The invention provides for a an intravascular stent having a plurality of cylindrical rings connected by undulating links. The stent has a high degree of flexibility in the longitudinal direction, yet has adequate vessel wall coverage and radial strength sufficient to hold open an artery or other body lumen. A central section is positioned between distal and proximal sections and is aligned with the area of vulnerable plaque to enhance growth of endothelial cells over the fibrous cap of the vulnerable plaque to reinforce the area and reduce the likelihood of rupture.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2012Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventor: Timothy Limon
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Patent number: 8323329Abstract: Stents and methods of manufacturing a stents with enhanced fracture toughness are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2010Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: David C. Gale, Bin Huang, Timothy Limon, Vincent J. Gueriguian
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Patent number: 8303644Abstract: Polymeric stents having fracture toughness and resistance to recoil after deployment are disclosed along with methods of manufacturing such stents. Improvements to mechanical characteristics and other improvements may be achieved by having polymer chains within individual stent struts oriented in a direction that is closer to or in line with the axis of the individual stent struts. The struts are connected to each other by hinge elements that are configured to bend during crimping and deployment of the stent. The hinge elements may be tangent or non-tangent to the adjoining struts so as to form W-shaped closed cells arranged in an offset brick pattern in which the size each W-shaped closed cell can be defined in part by a curvilinear length that is approximately 4.5 mm, which allows the stent to be crimped down to an OD of about 1.3 mm and expanded to an OD of at least about 3.5 mm.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2010Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.Inventors: Brenna Hearn Lord, Nicole F. Hou, Timothy A. Limon
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Publication number: 20120265295Abstract: An expandable stent is implanted in a body lumen, such as a coronary artery, peripheral artery, or other body lumen for treating an area of vulnerable plaque. The invention provides for a an intravascular stent having a plurality of cylindrical rings connected by undulating links. The stent has a high degree of flexibility in the longitudinal direction, yet has adequate vessel wall coverage and radial strength sufficient to hold open an artery or other body lumen. A central section is positioned between distal and proximal sections and is aligned with the area of vulnerable plaque to enhance growth of endothelial cells over the fibrous cap of the vulnerable plaque to reinforce the area and reduce the likelihood of rupture.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2012Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: ADVANCED CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS, INC.Inventor: Timothy A. Limon
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Patent number: 8211161Abstract: An expandable stent is implanted in a body lumen, such as a coronary artery, peripheral artery, or other body lumen for treating an area of vulnerable plaque. The invention provides for a an intravascular stent having a plurality of cylindrical rings connected by undulating links. The stent has a high degree of flexibility in the longitudinal direction, yet has adequate vessel wall coverage and radial strength sufficient to hold open an artery or other body lumen. A central section is positioned between distal and proximal sections and is aligned with the area of vulnerable plaque to enhance growth of endothelial cells over the fibrous cap of the vulnerable plaque to reinforce the area and reduce the likelihood of rupture.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2006Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventor: Timothy A. Limon
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Publication number: 20110277305Abstract: Polymeric stents having fracture toughness and resistance to recoil after deployment are disclosed along with methods of manufacturing such stents. Improvements to mechanical characteristics and other improvements may be achieved by having polymer chains within individual stent struts oriented in a direction that is closer to or in line with the axis of the individual stent struts. The desired orientation of polymer molecules may be achieved by one or any combination of extruding polymers into hollow tubes to induce axially oriented polymer chains, applying a tensile load to polymer tubes to induce axially oriented polymer chains, and radially expanding polymer tubes to induce circumferentially oriented polymer chains. Stent patterns include struts defining diamond shaped cells and/or W-shaped cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2011Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.Inventor: Timothy A. Limon
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Patent number: 8052701Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for treating a vulnerable plaque are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, the exemplary apparatus includes a medical device to treat a vulnerable plaque within a body lumen, where the medical device is adapted to position a rupturing device to rupture a fibrous cap of a vulnerable plaque. In one particular embodiment, the medical device includes a rupturing wire having a predetermined pattern to enable the rupturing device to rupture the fibrous cap of the vulnerable plaque. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2003Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.Inventors: Daniel L. Cox, Jeffrey Ellis, Timothy A. Limon
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Publication number: 20110224778Abstract: A stent having a stent pattern including a plurality of cylindrical rings, each ring including a plurality of diamond-shaped cells having four curved elements defining apices of the diamond-shaped cells is disclosed herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2011Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: David C. Gale, Bin Huang, Anthony J. Abbate, Timothy A. Limon, Klaus Kleine
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Patent number: 8002817Abstract: Polymeric stents having fracture toughness and resistance to recoil after deployment are disclosed along with methods of manufacturing such stents. Improvements to mechanical characteristics and other improvements may be achieved by having polymer chains within individual stent struts oriented in a direction that is closer to or in line with the axis of the individual stent struts. The desired orientation of polymer molecules may be achieved by one or any combination of extruding polymers into hollow tubes to induce axially oriented polymer chains, applying a tensile load to polymer tubes to induce axially oriented polymer chains, and radially expanding polymer tubes to induce circumferentially oriented polymer chains. Stent patterns include struts defining diamond shaped cells and/or W-shaped cells.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2008Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.Inventor: Timothy A. Limon
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Patent number: 7976554Abstract: Methods, systems, devices and assemblies are provided for treating a patient by: making an incision or puncture though the patient's skin over the abdominal cavity; establishing an initial tract through an opening formed by the incision or puncture; advancing an instrument through the tract; contacting a distal end portion of the instrument against an inner surface of the abdominal cavity; driving at least one stitching needle through the inner surface of the abdominal cavity, continuing the driving until the at least one stitching needle exits the inner surface of the abdominal cavity, anchoring a suture carried by each of the at least one stitching needle to a suture anchor at an exit location, respectively; and applying tension to each of the sutures.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2009Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Vibrynt, Inc.Inventors: Matthew B. Newell, Pankaj Rathi, Robert M. George, Marlo Dreissigacker, Narvel M. Brooks, III, Shuji Uemura, Theodore M. Bender, Joshua Makower, Dane A. Johnson, Brian K. Shiu, Pablo G. Acosta, Timothy A. Limon, Beverly Huss, Crystine M. Lee
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Patent number: 7971333Abstract: Methods and systems of fabricating a polymeric stent are disclosed herein. Methods are disclosed that include forming a polymeric tube using extrusion, radially deforming the formed tube so that the deformed tube comprises a target diameter, forming a stent from the deformed tube, and forming a stent from the deformed tube. The stent is formed by laser machining a stent pattern in the deformed tube with an ultra-short pulse laser. Disclosed methods further include crimping the stent on a support element, wherein a temperature of the stent during crimping is above an ambient temperature.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2006Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: David C. Gale, Bin Huang, Anthony J. Abbate, Timothy A. Limon, Klaus Kleine