Patents Represented by Attorney Gilbert R. Gabo
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Patent number: 8273115Abstract: An expandable prosthetic device and method of delivery that allows the initial placement of multiple guidewires into selected target sites. The prosthesis includes a main body device. This main body device has a separate side branch guidewire lumen that passes through the main body device and through a side opening in the main body device. As the main body device is advanced, the side opening is self guided (by the side branch guidewire) and self-aligns to the side branch vessel ostium. The main body device is then deployed, leaving the side branch guidewire in place. A side branch device is then advanced along the side branch guidewire through the main body device, through the side wall opening and into the native side branch vessel. The side branch device can then be deployed to engage the main body device and the native side branch vessel.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2007Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Inventors: Rochelle M. Hamer, Eric Gerard Johnson
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Patent number: 8267897Abstract: The invention comprises a hemostatic valve apparatus used in medical procedures that provides a valve that is always sealed. The valve apparatus incorporates a double twist and a rotation member placed between the ends of the valve. Because the valve is never fully opened, either no fluids or an insignificant amount of fluids will flow when used in surgical or interventional procedures. The invention also comprises a valve conduit with first and second fixed ends and a rotatable member positioned between the first and second ends.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2010Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Inventor: Dax B. Wells
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Patent number: 8267988Abstract: An expandable prosthetic device and method of delivery that allows the initial placement of multiple guidewires into selected target sites. The prosthesis includes a main body device. This main body device has a separate side branch guidewire lumen that passes through the main body device and through a side opening in the main body device. As the main body device is advanced, the side opening is self guided (by the side branch guidewire) and self-aligns to the side branch vessel ostium. The main body device is then deployed, leaving the side branch guidewire in place. A side branch device is then advanced along the side branch guidewire through the main body device, through the side wall opening and into the native side branch vessel. The side branch device can then be deployed to engage the main body device and the native side branch vessel.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2009Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Inventors: Rochelle M. Hamer, Eric Gerard Johnson
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Patent number: 8221487Abstract: A method of making an tubular intraluminal graft in the form of a tubular diametrically adjustable stent having a tubular covering of porous expanded PTFE which is less than 0.10 mm thick. The covering may be on the exterior surface of the stent, or on the interior surface of the stent, or both. The covering may be affixed to the stent by an adhesive which is preferably fluorinated ethylene propylene.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2010Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Inventors: James D. Lewis, David J. Myers, Wayne D. House
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Patent number: 8221488Abstract: A method of making a tubular intraluminal graft in the form of a tubular diametrically adjustable stent having a tubular covering of porous expanded polytetrafluoroethylene which is less than 0.10 mm thick. The covering may be on the exterior surface of the stent, or on the interior surface of the stent, or both. The covering may be affixed to the stent by an adhesive which is preferably fluorinated ethylene propylene.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2010Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Inventors: James D. Lewis, David J. Myers, Wayne D. House
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Patent number: 8197531Abstract: A method of making a tubular intraluminal graft in the form of a tubular diametrically adjustable stent having a tubular covering of porous expanded polytetrafluoroethylene which is less than 0.10 mm thick. The covering may be on the exterior surface of the stent, or on the interior surface of the stent, or both. The covering may be affixed to the stent by an adhesive which is preferably fluorinated ethylene propylene.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2010Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Inventors: James D. Lewis, David J. Myers, Wayne D. House
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Patent number: 8197532Abstract: A method of making a tubular intraluminal graft in the form of a tubular diametrically adjustable stent having a tubular covering of porous expanded polytetrafluoroethylene which is less than 0.10 mm thick. The covering may be on the exterior surface of the stent, or on the interior surface of the stent, or both. The covering may be affixed to the stent by an adhesive which is preferably fluorinated ethylene propylene.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2010Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Inventors: James D. Lewis, David J. Myers, Wayne D. House
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Patent number: 8197530Abstract: A method of making a tubular intraluminal graft in the form of a tubular diametrically adjustable stent having a tubular covering of porous expanded PTFE which is less than 0.10 mm thick. The covering may be on the exterior surface of the stent, or on the interior surface of the stent, or both. The covering may be affixed to the stent by an adhesive which is preferably fluorinated ethylene propylene.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2010Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Inventors: James D. Lewis, David J. Myers, Wayne D. House
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Patent number: 8080051Abstract: A method of making an tubular intraluminal graft in the form of a tubular diametrically adjustable stent having a tubular covering of porous expanded polytetrafluoroethylene which is less than 0.10 mm thick. The covering may be on the exterior surface of the stent, or on the interior surface of the stent, or both. The covering may be affixed to the stent by an adhesive which is preferably fluorinated ethylene propylene.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2010Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc.Inventors: James D. Lewis, David J. Myers, Wayne D. House
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Patent number: 8080049Abstract: An interventional delivery system with a first catheter having at its distal end a side branch vessel segment; a second catheter attached around the first catheter and having at its distal end a main vessel segment; a side branch vessel device attached to side branch vessel segment of the first catheter; and main vessel device attached to the main vessel segment of the second catheter. The main vessel device and the side branch vessel device are able to be simultaneously delivered to a treatment site.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2006Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Stanislaw Zukowski, Eric Gerard Johnson