Patents Represented by Attorney Vidas, Arrett and Steinkraus

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  • Implantable prosthesis having reinforced attachment sites
    Patent number: 8123884
    Abstract: The present invention provides an implantable graft that includes an elongate graft tube having opposing ends defining an attachment site for attaching the graft to a stent. The graft further includes a reinforcement member attached adjacent to at least one of the ends of the graft for establishing a reinforced attachment site for the graft, thereby preventing elongation of a suture hole in the material. Furthermore, the present invention provides a graft wherein at least one end of the graft is folded over itself and glued or sutured to itself and/or the stent, thereby forming a reinforcement thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Kujawski, Krzysztof Sowinski, Ronald Rakos, Jerry Q. Dong
  • Rapid acquisition shooting system
    Patent number: 8123180
    Abstract: The invention is directed towards an elevation adjustment mechanism which has a mechanism for coarsely adjusting the pitch rotation comprising a lever actuated clamping assembly and a mechanism for finely adjusting the pitch rotation comprising a threaded rod mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Alliant Techsystems Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel B. Shipman, Joe B. Dunning, Ernest E. Creamer, Ron Smith, Steven J. Koch
  • Apparatus and methods for removal of intervertebral disc tissues
    Patent number: 8123750
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for removing tissue from an intervertebral disc are disclosed. The apparatus can include an elongated guide tube, a rotary cutting member and a drive shaft. Other apparatus can include an elongated guide tube, an inner guide tube, a cutting head, a rotary cutting member and a drive shaft. The elongated guide tube has a bendable end. The apparatus are generally configured to extend and withdraw a rotary cutting member while controllably bending the bendable end of the guide tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Corespine Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Britt K. Norton, Christine M. Horton, Jeremy J. Ling
  • Spread coating a medical device
    Patent number: 8119151
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods, systems, devices, and kits for coating portions of a medical device or other work piece as well as to medical devices that have themselves been coated in accord with the invention. Under methods of the invention, portions of a medical device may be selectively coated. The method may include providing a medical device, an applicator, and a spreader. A layer of coating having a thickness may then be applied to a target surface of the medical device with the applicator. When the coating is applied, the spreader can be positioned in contact with the coating to reduce the coating thickness by spreading the coating over a larger surface area of the target surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Matt Heidner, Tim J. Mickley, Michael S. Owens
  • Intraluminal stent
    Patent number: 8118858
    Abstract: An intraluminal stent made of a zig-zag or sinusoidal member defining a successive series of struts connected by apex sections and formed into a series of axially displaced hoop members wherein at least one of the hoop members has at least one strut connected to a strut of an adjacent hoop. The connected struts may be connected by spot welding, continuous welding, or suturing, for example, or by a bridging member connected to each strut, and may be spaced along the length of the stent in a pattern to form a connective spine. The number of zigs of the zig-zag member in each hoop member may be varied, as can the zig length. A plurality of connective spines may also be included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: David Tseng, Ellen Golds, Bruc Parsons
  • Bifurcation stent and balloon assemblies
    Patent number: 8118861
    Abstract: A bifurcated stent that is positionable adjacent to a branched body vessel. The stent includes a tapered middle portion with a side branch assembly for positioning within the deviating branch of a body vessel. The portion of the stent positioned within the first body vessel and the portion positioned within the main branch vessel have largely different sized diameters. The middle region tapers steeply to bridge this diameter differential. The tapered middle region also angles the side branch assembly which can easily be extended at an angle to the main body of the stent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Jens Hegg, Michael P. Meyer
  • Method and apparatus for test pressing multi-layer tablets or coated tablets
    Patent number: 8119045
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for test pressing tablets with at least two layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventors: Ingo Schmidt, Ulrich Gathmann, Bernd Malner
  • Method for detecting contamination on a moving object
    Patent number: 8119993
    Abstract: A method for detecting contamination on a moving object moving in a longitudinal direction past a plurality of detectors, wherein during the movement of the object past the detectors, a count rate is recorded repeatedly at each of the detectors, and before an evaluation whether contamination is present, the recorded count rates are subjected to a validity test as to whether the count rates recorded by the detectors belong to a class of predetermined reference patterns for the count rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Mirion Technologies (Rados) GmbH
    Inventors: Daan van Bree, Ingo Koelln
  • Continuous double layered stent for migration resistance
    Patent number: 8114147
    Abstract: The present invention relates to stent structures having improved migration resistance. In particular, the invention relates to mesh stents, such as braided or twisted stent designs, where at least a portion of the stent is folded back over itself to form a multi-layered stent device. Such multi-layered portions provide for migration resistance, among other advantages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Wood, Paul Norton, William Bertolino, F. Anthony Headley, Jr.
  • Longitudinally flexible expandable stent
    Patent number: 8114146
    Abstract: Segmented articulatable stent of open structure comprised of end-connected struts of first and second lengths making up first and second segments with angular interconnects between adjacent first and second segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian J. Brown, David Friesen, Timothy J. Ley, Sean P. Skubitz, Michael Davis
  • Metering device
    Patent number: 8114361
    Abstract: A metering device for utilization with a syringe, which features on a syringe cylinder a fastening portion with at least one axially directed sensing surface projecting from the upside, and at least one alignment nose projecting from the outer perimeter of the fastening portion, and a plunger with a plunger rod, the metering device having an accommodation for the fastening portion of the syringe cylinder, the accommodation having an axial opening for axially inserting the fastening portion into a fastening position, a sensing device disposed in the accommodation with at least one sensing means projecting from a basis surface of the sensing device facing the axial opening, for sensing the at least one sensing surface of a fastening portion inserted in a fastening position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Eppendorf AG
    Inventor: Burkhardt Reichmuth
  • Multi-dimensional portable gas chromatograph system
    Patent number: 8114200
    Abstract: A portable multi-dimensional gas chromatograph, the gas chromatograph including a carrier gas container, a regulator fluidly connected to the carrier gas container, a dopant chamber containing a reference chemical, at least one pre-concentrator which is fluidly connected to the regulator and the dopant chamber, a first separation column fluidly connected to the at least one pre-concentrator, a second separation column fluidly connected to the at least one pre-concentrator, a first detector fluidly connected to the first separation column, and a second detector fluidly connected to the second separation column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: VPI Enigineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Sheena Alm, James Bentley, John Blankevoort, Mark Kaspersen, Collin Lewis, Derek Maxwell, Ken Wunner
  • Stent with tabs and holes for drug delivery
    Patent number: 8114151
    Abstract: A stent can include a tubular body, a plurality of circumferential serpentine bands, a plurality of connectors extending between immediately adjacent serpentine bands, and a plurality of tabs. The plurality of tabs include peak tabs and trough tabs. Each peak tab and each trough tab have a first end and a second end wherein only the first end is engaged to a serpentine band, each peak tab extends substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis from a peak on a serpentine band toward a peak on an immediately distal serpentine band. Each trough tab extends substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis from a trough on a serpentine band toward a trough on an immediately proximal serpentine band. Each serpentine band defines a plurality of holes and each tab defines a plurality of holes. The holes are constructed and arranged to contain a therapeutic agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Gordon J. Kocur, Daniel Gregorich, Timothy S Girton
  • Chain stowage mechanism for marine vehicles
    Patent number: 8113134
    Abstract: A mechanism for releasing and retracting an anchor chain into/from water in marine vehicles, comprising a stowing reservoir which is driven by a motor for automatically stowing the chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Inventor: Mehmet Nevres Ulgen
  • Vented valve assembly
    Patent number: 8113239
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a vented valve assembly for attachment to a rigid container may include one or more of the following features: (a) a unitary tubular valve body of a generally cylindrical hollow form and having a liquid inlet end, and (b) a second end and a liquid outlet port, said liquid inlet end adapted for connection to a male spout on a wall of the rigid container, said liquid outlet port being exterior to the wall of the rigid container when the liquid inlet end is affixed to the spout, the valve body further including an air vent opening formed through a wall of the tubular valve body leading to a channel affixed to an inner wall of the tubular valve body, the channel having one open end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: David S. Smith America, Inc.
    Inventors: James L. Richards, Loren L. Brelje
  • Stent
    Patent number: 8109992
    Abstract: A stent shaped as a three-dimensional body which is formed by interlaced threads (1) arranged in multistart turns of a helical line. The threads (1) are arranged in at least two groups (2 and 3) of the helical turns featuring opposite senses of helix. The stent ends are established by sections (5) where the turns of one helical line merge into those of the other helical line, said sections appearing as a single length of the thread (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Endovascular Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sergei Appolonovich Pulnev, Andrei Vladimirovich Karev, Sergei Vladimirovich Schukin
  • Fastening clip bar
    Patent number: 8109386
    Abstract: A fastening clip bar, comprising a plurality of fastening clips arranged parallel to each other, an adhesive joining the fastening clips with each other, and at least one elastic tape extending over the fastening clips which is glued together with the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Joh. Friedrich Behrens AG
    Inventor: Burghardt Krohn
  • Stents with attached looped ends
    Patent number: 8109988
    Abstract: An open frame prosthesis is formed with looped end terminations at its proximal and distal ends. At one end of the prosthesis, the filaments or strands are welded together in pairs to form strand couplings. A plurality of loop segments are connected to the strand couplings, one loop segment for each pair of adjacent strand couplings. In one version of the prosthesis, strands at the opposite end are bent to form looped ends. In another version, loop segments are connected to pairs of strand couplings at both ends of the prosthesis. The loop segments can be connected to the couplings by welding, fusion bonds, or tubes, which are either crimped or heat shrunk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary J. Leanna, Paul K. Norton, Peter Brady, Dean Molloy, Michael E. Zupkofska
  • Helical stent design
    Patent number: 8109989
    Abstract: An expandable tubular reinforcing member used for body lumens such as blood vessels, the reinforcing member being formed of a continuous elongated helical element comprised of spaced undulating portions forming end loop portions and including a plurality of curvilinear connector elements extending between and interconnecting at least some of the adjacent undulating portions of the helical element over its length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Graig L. Keeen, Burns P. Doran, Robert T. Judnitch
  • Lift truck
    Patent number: D655064
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Jungheinrich Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Andreas Knie