Patents Represented by Law Firm Vidas & Arrett
  • Methods and apparatus for endovascular heart valve replacement comprising tissue grasping elements
    Patent number: 8062357
    Abstract: A method for endovascularly replacing a patient's heart valve including the following steps: endovascularly delivering an anchor and a replacement valve supported within the anchor to a vicinity of the heart valve in a collapsed delivery configuration, the anchor having grasping elements adapted to grasp tissue in a vicinity of the heart valve; expanding the anchor, thereby rotating the grasping elements; and grasping the tissue with the rotating grasping elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Sadra Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Amr Salahieh, Daniel Hildebrand, Tom Saul
  • Stent-graft with bioabsorbable structural support
    Patent number: 8062351
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stent-graft with a bioabsorbable structure and a permanent graft for luminal support and treatment of arterial fistulas, occlusive disease, and aneurysms. The bioabsorbable structure is formed from braided filaments of materials such as PLA, PLLA, PDLA, and PGA and the graft is formed from materials such as PET, ePTFE, PCU or PU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Diane K. Burnside, Jonathan S. Stinson, Paul F. Chouinard
  • Cover panel for a drawbar-controlled ground conveyor on the side facing the drawbar
    Patent number: 8056920
    Abstract: Cover panel for a drawbar-controlled ground conveyor on the side facing the drawbar, which has a mainly U-shaped skirt formed from a blank section in the lower area, with a bar section facing the drawbar and lateral leg sections, which covers a drive unit of the ground conveyor on the side and in the back and can be welded to a frame of the ground conveyor, wherein the upper edge of the skirt runs within the surface area of the skirt, an approximately middle upper section of the bar section is embossed with respect to the neighboring outer surfaces of the bar section, and the embossed section projects upwards into a centering section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Jungheinrich Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Knie, Markus Nagel, Stefan Pfleger
  • Method for certifying and subsequently authenticating original, paper of digital documents for evidences
    Patent number: 8056822
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for certifying and subsequently authenticating original physical or digital documents. The concept of the evidence lies in the dual nature of a physical information item and a digital information item, one being the reference for the other that cannot lie amended at the risk of the evidence being lost. For a physical original document (8) associated with a bubble seal (7) there is a corresponding time-and-date-stamped, proprietary paperless reference counterpart. For a time-and-date-stamped, proprietary digital original document (15) there is a corresponding reference counterpart in the form of a bubble seal (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Novatec SA
    Inventors: Francis Bourrieres, Clement Kaiser, Franck Bourrieres
  • Endoprosthesis holder
    Patent number: 8057527
    Abstract: An endoprosthesis holder includes a proximal connector structure having an outer surface. A distal connector structure has an outer surface. An intermediate connector structure is connected to the proximal and distal connector structures such that the intermediate connector structure is between the proximal and distal connector structures. The intermediate connector structure includes one or more intermediate transverse structures and one or more axial structures. The one or more intermediate transverse structures are connected to one another and to the proximal and distal connector structures by the one or more axial structures. The intermediate connector structure has an outer surface. An outward protrusion is connected to one or more of the outer surfaces of the proximal connector structure or distal connector structure or intermediate connector structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Jordan, F. Anthony Headley, Jr.
  • Apparatus with visual marker for guiding deployment of implantable prosthesis
    Patent number: 8057533
    Abstract: An apparatus for use by an operator in a cavity of a mammalian body with a scope having a distal face providing a field of view. The apparatus includes a flexible elongate member having a distal extremity adapted for extending into the cavity and a proximal extremity accessible from outside of the mammalian body when the distal extremity is disposed in the cavity. An expandable prosthesis is releaseably secured to the distal extremity of the flexible elongate member. A visual marker capable of being seen by the operator in the field of view is secured to one of the distal extremity of the flexible elongate member and the prosthesis for facilitating placement of the prosthesis in the mammalian body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen P. Mangin, Peter J. Shank
  • Industrial truck with acquirement of utilization data
    Patent number: 8055405
    Abstract: An industrial truck with an electronic memory and/or a data transfer unit, an equipment for acquiring utilization data and a control unit, which is connected with the equipment for acquiring utilization data and the memory and/or the data transfer unit, characterized in that the control unit continuously generates an utilization protocol from the acquired utilization data and files it in the memory or transmits it to the data transfer unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Jungheinrich Atiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf Baginski, Frank Manken, Martin Von Werder
  • Methods and apparatus for endovascular heart valve replacement comprising tissue grasping elements
    Patent number: 8052749
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for endovascularly replacing a patient's heart valve. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes an expandable anchor supporting a replacement valve, the anchor and replacement valve being adapted for percutaneous delivery and deployment to replace the patient's heart valve, the anchor having a braid having atraumatic grasping elements adapted to grasp tissue in a vicinity of the patient's heart valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Sadra Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Amr Salahieh, Daniel Hildebrand, Tom Saul
  • Device to stabilize and align a pre-mounted stent
    Patent number: 8051797
    Abstract: A support device is provided to hold a pre-mounted device, such as a stent mounted on a balloon of a delivery catheter, for insertion in a coating apparatus. The support device stabilizes, aligns and holds the pre-mounted stent assembly in order to allow correct location and rotation in relation to a coating applicator in a coating apparatus and to avoid damage during the coating process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Eyal Teichman, Dymphna Donaghy, Gareth Walsh
  • Stent
    Patent number: 8052739
    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: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Endovascular Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sergei Appolonovich Pulnev, Andrei Vladimirovich Karev, Sergei Vladimirovich Schukin
  • Retractable hydrofoil for marine vehicles
    Patent number: 8051793
    Abstract: A marine vehicle with at least one hydrofoil at the lower hull of such marine vehicle, and at least one drive element for retracting a pair of hydrofoils mounted side-by-side on both sides of the symmetry axis of the hull of the marine vehicle. When hydrofoils are in the retracted position, the marine vehicle is converted to a conventional marine vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Inventor: Mehmet Nevres Ulgen
  • Controller for a blade adjustment angle of at least one rotor blade of a wind power plant
    Patent number: 8055390
    Abstract: Controller for a blade adjustment angle for at least one rotor blade of a wind power plant, in which a first controller branch is switched for the determination of the blade adjustment angle depending on the operating states of the wind power plant, wherein at least one differentiating member is provided in the switched first controller branch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Nordex Energy GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Kabatzke
  • Low profile heart valve and delivery system
    Patent number: 8048153
    Abstract: Apparatus for endovascularly replacing a patient's heart valve, including: a delivery catheter having a diameter of 21 french or less; an expandable anchor disposed within the delivery catheter; and a replacement valve disposed within the delivery catheter. The invention also includes a method for endovascularly replacing a heart valve of a patient. In some embodiments the method includes the steps of: inserting a catheter having a diameter no more than 21 french into the patient; endovascularly delivering a replacement valve and an expandable anchor to a vicinity of the heart valve through the catheter; and deploying the anchor and the replacement valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Sadra Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Amr Salahieh, Brian D. Brandt, Dwight P. Morejohn, Ulrich R. Haug, Jean-Pierre Dueri, Hans F. Valencia, Robert A. Geshlider, Jeff Krolik
  • Limb mounting system
    Patent number: 8047189
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for reducing stress in a bow limb of an archery bow connected to a handle/riser of the bow by allowing a butt end of the bow limb connected to a forward end of the handle/riser by a limb bolt to flex forwardly when the bow is drawn and/or allowing the bow to flex rearwardly at the rearward end of the handle/riser when the bow is drawn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Inventor: Mathew A. McPherson
  • Medical device retaining sheath and medical device delivery system employing same
    Patent number: 8048138
    Abstract: An endoluminal prosthetic delivery system provides a delivery sheath possessing a yield strength capable of allowing implantation of the prosthesis with increased efficiency. An endoluminal prosthesis is inserted in a body in a radially compressed condition, and expanded at an implantation site, whereby a delivery sheath or the prosthesis itself possesses a yield strength sufficient to allow radial expansion of the prosthesis. A method of implanting an endoluminal prosthesis is also herein provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Sullivan, Ellen Golds, David Tseng, Jeff Boatman
  • Method to make tube-in-tube balloon
    Patent number: 8043673
    Abstract: A tube-in-tube assembled parison for preparation of an elongated medical device. The parison if formed by assembling in tube-in-tube fashion a first tube of orientable polymer material and a second tube formed of orientable polymer material disposed around the first tube, with an adhesive tie layer disposed between the first and second tubes. The tubes are brought into contact to form a unitary parison. The adhesive may allow movement between the polymer layers during balloon blowing. The first tube, or the second tube, or both, may have been longitudinally pre-stretched after formation thereof but before assembly of the parison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Nao Lee, Ying Xiong, Joe Khammoungkhoune, John J. Chen
  • Overlapping stent
    Patent number: 8043366
    Abstract: A medical device may comprise a body portion and an outwardly deployable side branch structure, and may be formed from a first stent and a second stent. In some embodiments, the first stent and second stent may be connected by at least one connection. At least a portion of the second stent may be oriented within the first stent and may be coaxially aligned with the first stent. Either stent may include the side branch structure, and the stent not having side branch structure may include a side branch opening. The first and second stents may overlap at various locations to provide additional vessel support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian J. Brown, Andrzej Malewicz, Daniel Gregorich
  • System and method for coating a medical device
    Patent number: 8043651
    Abstract: A method and device for coating a medical device, such as a stent, including rolling the stent against a ribbon or gravure roll impregnated with coating material. The ribbon and gravure roll may include a recessed pattern matching a strut pattern of the stent. The stent may also be rolled against a plate or cylinder while coating material is forced onto the stent through a pattern of holes or openings in the plate or cylinder matching a strut pattern of the stent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Tim O'Connor, LiJuan He, Aiden Flanagan, Anthony Malone, Barry Heaney, Dave McMorrow
  • Stent with overlap and high extension
    Patent number: 8043358
    Abstract: A stent may comprise a plurality of serpentine bands that overlap along the length of the stent. Each serpentine band may comprise a plurality of alternating first struts and second struts connected by a plurality of alternating proximal turns and distal turns. Each first strut defines a curvilinear path different from that of each second strut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Weber, Karl A. Jagger, James Anderson
  • Crown stent assembly
    Patent number: 8038706
    Abstract: A stent assembly comprises a proximal stent and a distal stent. Each stent has a tubular body defining a stent lumen and a circumference. A proximal flap extends from the distal end of the proximal stent and a distal flap extends from the proximal end of the distal stent. Each flap defines only a portion of the circumference. In an expanded state the proximal flap and the distal flap form a side branch support having a side branch support lumen. The side branch support lumen is in fluid communication with the stent lumen and has a longitudinal axis different from that of the stent lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Tracee Eidenschink, Matt Heidner, Michael P. Meyer, Daniel Gregorich, Shawn Sorenson, Richard C. Tooley