Patents Assigned to Albert Einstein Healthcare Network
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Patent number: 10251745Abstract: A connector for attaching a connective tissue to bone includes a sling for supporting and holding the connective tissue. A trap generally cooperates with the sling. The trap includes an anchor end and a sling end and a generally tubular section configured to decrease in diameter upon application of a longitudinal tensile force. The trap is dimensioned to fit within a tunnel through bone so that the connective tissue emerges from one end of the tunnel and so that an interference screw can be inserted into the tubular section at the anchor end of the trap at the other end of the tunnel whereby a pulling force exerted on the sling causes the generally tubular section of the trap to constrict more tightly about the interference screw to prevent slippage and to deter withdrawal of the trap from the tunnel.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2018Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORKInventor: Minn Saing
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Patent number: 9931196Abstract: A connector for attaching a connective tissue to bone includes a sling for supporting and holding the connective tissue. A trap generally cooperates with the sling. The trap includes an anchor end and a sling end and a generally tubular section configured to decrease in diameter upon application of a longitudinal tensile force. The trap is dimensioned to fit within a tunnel through bone so that the connective tissue emerges from one end of the tunnel and so that an interference screw can be inserted into the tubular section at the anchor end of the trap at the other end of the tunnel whereby a pulling force exerted on the sling causes the generally tubular section of the trap to constrict more tightly about the interference screw to prevent slippage and to deter withdrawal of the trap from the tunnel.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2016Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORKInventor: Minn Saing
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Patent number: 9392951Abstract: Catheter systems for measuring at least one electrical property, e.g., impedance, of cardiac tissue of a living being are disclosed. The system includes a catheter having a tip with a sensing electrode, a guard electrode and an electrical shield. The sensing electrode is arranged to engage the cardiac tissue and is coupled to circuitry for measuring the at least one electrical property of the cardiac tissue, shielding the sensing electrode from bulk blood adjacent the cardiac tissue. The measurement can gated to the cardiac cycle. Additional embodiments include multi-electrode sensor catheter tips for high density mapping. Moreover, such tips may be dynamically configurable, i.e., their electrodes can be variably assigned as sensor electrodes or guard electrodes by associated circuitry. Such multi-electrode configuration and reconfiguration can be gated to the cardiac cycle.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2015Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignees: Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, The Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaInventors: Allan M. Greenspan, Yale E. Goldman
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Patent number: 9295398Abstract: A method and system for determining the mechanism of cardiac arrhythmia in a patient is disclosed. The method basically entails measuring the impedance of cardiac tissue in a portion of the patient's heart using a catheter during an episode of supraventricular tachycardia to produce an iso-impedance map of that cardiac tissue on a video display and analyzing the pattern of the iso-impedance map to differentiate focal arrhythmia caused by a circumscribed region of focal firing and reentrant arrhythmia caused by a macroreentrant circuit. The method can also be used to identify regions of coherent rapidly conducting tissue e.g., Bachman's bundle or the inferoposterior pathway insertion points, to identify focal “mother rotors” throughout the left atrium that may participate in the generation and maintenance of atrial fibrillation and to identify areas of CAFE (complex atrial/fractionated electrograms) that truly reflect these mother rotors.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2014Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Albert Einstein Healthcare NetworkInventor: Allan M. Greenspan
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Patent number: 8977334Abstract: Catheter systems for measuring at least one electrical property, e.g., impedance, of cardiac tissue of a living being are disclosed. The system includes a catheter having a tip with a sensing electrode, a guard electrode and an electrical shield. The sensing electrode is arranged to engage the cardiac tissue and is coupled to circuitry for measuring the at least one electrical property of the cardiac tissue, shielding the sensing electrode from bulk blood adjacent the cardiac tissue. The measurement can gated to the cardiac cycle. Additional embodiments include multi-electrode sensor catheter tips for high density mapping. Moreover, such tips may be dynamically configurable, i.e., their electrodes can be variably assigned as sensor electrodes or guard electrodes by associated circuitry. Such multi-electrode configuration and reconfiguration can be gated to the cardiac cycle.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2013Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignees: Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, The Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaInventors: Allan M. Greenspan, Yale E. Goldman
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Patent number: 8849384Abstract: A method and system for determining the mechanism of cardiac arrhythmia in a patient is disclosed. The method basically entails measuring the impedance of cardiac tissue in a portion of the patient's heart using a catheter during an episode of supraventricular tachycardia to produce an iso-impedance map of that cardiac tissue on a video display and analyzing the pattern of the iso-impedance map to differentiate focal arrhythmia caused by a circumscribed region of focal firing and reentrant arrhythmia caused by a macroreentrant circuit. The method can also be used to identify regions of coherent rapidly conducting tissue e.g., Bachman's bundle or the inferoposterior pathway insertion points, to identify focal “mother rotors” throughout the left atrium that may participate in the generation and maintenance of atrial fibrillation and to identify areas of CAFE (complex atrial/fractionated electrograms) that truly reflect these mother rotors.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Albert Einstein Healthcare NetworkInventor: Allan M. Greenspan
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Publication number: 20140155722Abstract: Catheter systems for measuring at least one electrical property, e.g., impedance, of cardiac tissue of a living being are disclosed. The system includes a catheter having a tip with a sensing electrode, a guard electrode and an electrical shield. The sensing electrode is arranged to engage the cardiac tissue and is coupled to circuitry for measuring the at least one electrical property of the cardiac tissue, shielding the sensing electrode from bulk blood adjacent the cardiac tissue. The measurement can gated to the cardiac cycle. Additional embodiments include multi-electrode sensor catheter tips for high density mapping. Moreover, such tips may be dynamically configurable, i.e., their electrodes can be variably assigned as sensor electrodes or guard electrodes by associated circuitry. Such multi-electrode configuration and reconfiguration can be gated to the cardiac cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2013Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: Albert Einstein Healthcare NetworkInventors: Allan M. Greenspan, Yale E. Goldman
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Publication number: 20140107512Abstract: A method and system for determining the mechanism of cardiac arrhythmia in a patient is disclosed. The method basically entails measuring the impedance of cardiac tissue in a portion of the patient's heart using a catheter during an episode of supraventricular tachycardia to produce an iso-impedance map of that cardiac tissue on a video display and analyzing the pattern of the iso-impedance map to differentiate focal arrhythmia caused by a circumscribed region of focal firing and reentrant arrhythmia caused by a macroreentrant circuit. The method can also be used to identify regions of coherent rapidly conducting tissue e.g., Bachman's bundle or the inferoposterior pathway insertion points, to identify focal “mother rotors” throughout the left atrium that may participate in the generation and maintenance of atrial fibrillation and to identify areas of CAFE (complex atrial/fractionated electrograms) that truly reflect these mother rotors.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Applicant: Albert Einstein Healthcare NetworkInventor: Allan M. Greenspan
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Patent number: 8655427Abstract: Catheter systems for measuring at least one electrical property, e.g., impedance, of cardiac tissue of a living being are disclosed. The system includes a catheter having a tip with a sensing electrode, a guard electrode and an electrical shield. The sensing electrode is arranged to engage the cardiac tissue and is coupled to circuitry for measuring the at least one electrical property of the cardiac tissue, shielding the sensing electrode from bulk blood adjacent the cardiac tissue. The measurement can gated to the cardiac cycle. Additional embodiments include multi-electrode sensor catheter tips for high density mapping. Moreover, such tips may be dynamically configurable, i.e., their electrodes can be variably assigned as sensor electrodes or guard electrodes by associated circuitry. Such multi-electrode configuration and reconfiguration can be gated to the cardiac cycle.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignees: Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, The Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaInventors: Allan M. Greenspan, Yale E. Goldman
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Patent number: 8644917Abstract: A method and system for determining the mechanism of cardiac arrhythmia in a patient is disclosed. The method basically entails measuring the impedance of cardiac tissue in a portion of the patient's heart using a catheter during an episode of supraventricular tachycardia to produce an iso-impedance map of that cardiac tissue on a video display and analyzing the pattern of the iso-impedance map to differentiate focal arrhythmia caused by a circumscribed region of focal firing and reentrant arrhythmia caused by a macroreentrant circuit. The method can also be used to identify regions of coherent rapidly conducting tissue e.g., Bachman's bundle or the inferoposterior pathway insertion points, to identify focal “mother rotors” throughout the left atrium that may participate in the generation and maintenance of atrial fibrillation and to identify areas of CAFE (complex atrial/fractionated electrograms) that truly reflect these mother rotors.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2012Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Albert Einstein Healthcare NetworkInventor: Allan M. Greenspan
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Publication number: 20130072774Abstract: A method and system for determining the mechanism of cardiac arrhythmia in a patient is disclosed. The method basically entails measuring the impedance of cardiac tissue in a portion of the patient's heart using a catheter during an episode of supraventricular tachycardia to produce an iso-impedance map of that cardiac tissue on a video display and analyzing the pattern of the iso-impedance map to differentiate focal arrhythmia caused by a circumscribed region of focal firing and reentrant arrhythmia caused by a macroreentrant circuit. The method can also be used to identify regions of coherent rapidly conducting tissue e.g., Bachman's bundle or the inferoposterior pathway insertion points, to identify focal “mother rotors” throughout the left atrium that may participate in the generation and maintenance of atrial fibrillation and to identify areas of CAFE (complex atrial/fractionated electrograms) that truly reflect these mother rotors.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2012Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORKInventor: Allan M. Greenspan
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Patent number: 8235928Abstract: A low profile dynamic extension splint for biasing a person's fingers and/or a thumb in an open position.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2010Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Albert Einstein Healthcare NetworkInventor: Joseph R. Padova
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Patent number: 7833183Abstract: The present invention relates to medical devices and methods useful for improving a person's ability to grasp and release an object, and more specifically, the present invention relates to a splint for causing dynamic extension of a finger and/or thumb.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2007Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Albert Einstein Healthcare NetworkInventor: Joseph R. Padova
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Publication number: 20090099519Abstract: An apparatus for abdominal dressing that adds liquid coils in the form of a manifold is disclosed. The manifold includes heating coils to warm the bowel with heated water in a counter current method. This takes advantage of the large surface area of the bowel to exchange heat with the heater coils, but allows the abdominal dressing to maintain the initial function: remove pathologic fluid from the abdomen. Methods of treating patients with an open abdomen are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2008Publication date: April 16, 2009Applicant: ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORKInventor: Mark Kaplan
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Patent number: 6941169Abstract: An apparatus is provided for reducing the formation and migration of blood clots from an atrial appendage, such as the left atrial appendage, to the blood vessel system of a patient. The apparatus comprises an atrial pacer to treat non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation (NRAF) of an atrial appendage so that the formation blood clots within the atrial appendage is decreased or eliminated. In addition, the apparatus includes a blood clot filter supported by the atrial pacer proximate the atrial appendage and the atrium to reduce the migration of blood clots from the atrial appendage into the blood vessel system of a patient.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2002Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: Albert Einstein Healthcare NetworkInventor: Ramesh Pappu
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Patent number: 6790622Abstract: This invention provides a novel nucleic acid molecule encoding PTX1, which has been mapped to human chromosome 12. The PTX1-encoding nucleic acid molecule, along with its encoded protein and antibodies thereto may be used to advantage to facilitate the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of cancer.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2002Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Assignee: Albert Einstein Healthcare NetworkInventors: Simon Kwok, Ierachimiel Daskal
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Patent number: 6743603Abstract: This invention provides a novel nucleic acid molecule encoding PTX1, which has been mapped to human chromosome 12. The PTX1-encoding nucleic acid molecule, along with its encoded protein and antibodies thereto may be used to advantage to facilitate the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of cancer.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2001Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Assignee: Albert Einstein Healthcare NetworkInventors: Simon Kwok, Ierachimiel Daskal
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Patent number: 6293791Abstract: An orthodontic instrument includes a pair of complementary mating die movable together and apart for forming a Z-shaped bend in an orthodontic arch wire. A Z-shaped bend in an orthodontic arch wire is utilized in conjunction with an orthodontic appliance for applying force to a tooth through a bracket thereon to change its inclination and/or rotation respecting the long axis of the tooth, e.g., to upright an angulated tooth or derotate a rotated tooth. Different embodiments of the instrument are utilized in a sideways or an end-on orientation relative to the arch wire to form a Z-bend therein in situ in a patient's mouth, or may operate on the arch wire outside the mouth.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2000Date of Patent: September 25, 2001Assignee: Albert Einstein Healthcare NetworkInventor: Martin Weinstein
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Patent number: 6174283Abstract: An apparatus and method for monitoring a system or patient to provide information regarding the status of the system. The apparatus comprises a means of transforming measured values of more than one parameter of the system using a function dependent on at least baseline and critical values of the parameters. The apparatus further includes mapping means for mapping the function to a sequence of reference values and generating a deviation indicator for each parameter. The deviation indicators are analyzed by an analyzer to generate information concerning the status of the system or patient.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1996Date of Patent: January 16, 2001Assignee: Albert Einstein Healthcare NetworkInventors: Igal Nevo, Maher Salah, Srinivas S. Dagalur, Mark Newman
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Patent number: 6159155Abstract: An apparatus and method for monitoring a system or patient to provide information regarding the status of the system. The apparatus comprises a means of transforming measured values of more than one parameter of the system using a function dependent on at least baseline and critical values of the parameters. The apparatus further includes mapping means for mapping the function to a sequence of reference values and generating a deviation indicator for each parameter. The deviation indicators are analyzed by an analyzer to generate information concerning the status of the system or patient.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 1998Date of Patent: December 12, 2000Assignee: Albert Einstein Healthcare NetworkInventors: Igal Nevo, Maher Salah, Srinivas S. Dagalur