Patents by Inventor Timothy Faulkner Frost

Timothy Faulkner Frost 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).

  • Method for manufacturing stent-grafts
    Patent number: 7290494
    Abstract: A sewing machine is provided which is capable of sewing reinforcing wire to tubular grafts in order to form stent grafts. A bobbin (which may be seated in a shuttle) carries a bottom thread through the bore of the tubular graft and forms a stitch in combination with a top thread carried on a needle which pierces the graft wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Anson Medical Limited
    Inventors: Peter Phillips, Adrian Michael Woodward, Andrew Richard Buchanan Halket, Gail Beaton, Carl John Perks, Clive Graham Angel, Timothy Faulkner Frost
  • Method for manufacturing stent-grafts
    Patent number: 7073456
    Abstract: A sewing machine is provided which is capable of sewing reinforcing wire to tubular grafts in order to form stent grafts. A bobbin (which may be seated in a shuttle) carries a bottom thread through the bore of the tubular graft and forms a stitch in combination with a top thread carried on a needle which pierces the graft wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Anson Medical Limited
    Inventors: Peter Phillips, Adrian Michael Woodward, Andrew Richard Buchanan Halket, Gail Beaton, Carl John Perks, Clive Graham Angel, Timothy Faulkner Frost