Patents Assigned to Asthmatx, Inc.
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Patent number: 8534291Abstract: This relates to treating an asthmatic lung and more particularly, relates to advancing a treatment device into the lung and treating the lung with the device. This also includes additional steps of treating the airway wall, applying energy or heat to the airway wall in an asthmatic lung.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2006Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Asthmatx, Inc.Inventors: Christopher J. Danek, Michael Biggs, Bryan Loomas, Michael D. Laufer, Gary Kaplan, Kelly Shriner
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Publication number: 20130226167Abstract: This relates to methods and devices for achieving contact between the wall of a cavity or passageway and a medical device when used in tortuous anatomy.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2013Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: Asthmatx, Inc.Inventors: Gary S. KAPLAN, Christopher J. DANEK, William J. WIZEMAN, Timothy R. DALBEC, Noah WEBSTER, Huy PHAN
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Publication number: 20130218158Abstract: This relates to treating an asthmatic lung and more particularly, relates to advancing a treatment device into the lung and treating the lung with the device. This also includes additional steps of treating the airway wall, applying energy or heat to the airway wall in an asthmatic lung.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2013Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: ASTHMATX, INC.Inventors: Christopher James DANEK, Michael BIGGS, Bryan LOOMAS, Michael D. LAUFER, Gary KAPLAN, Kelly SHRINER
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Publication number: 20130211402Abstract: This relates to treating an asthmatic lung and more particularly, relates to advancing a treatment device into the lung and treating the lung with the device. This also includes additional steps of treating the airway wall, applying energy or heat to the airway wall in an asthmatic lung.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2013Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: ASTHMATX, INC.Inventors: Christopher J. DANEK, Michael BIGGS, Bryan E. LOOMAS, Michael D. LAUFER, Gary KAPLAN, Kelly M. SHRINER
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Patent number: 8480667Abstract: This relates to methods and devices for achieving contact between the wall of a cavity or passageway and a medical device under conditions in which an access path and the subject anatomy are not aligned.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2006Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Asthmatx, Inc.Inventors: Gary S. Kaplan, Christopher J. Danek, William J. Wizeman, Tim R. Dalbec
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Patent number: 8465486Abstract: Methods and devices for treating reversible chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are disclosed, which include a device for delivering energy to a wall of an airway in a human lung. The device includes a flexible elongate body with a proximal portion, a distal portion, a distal end, and a lumen extending therebetween. The device also includes a deployment member having an electrically conducting wire extending from the proximal portion of the elongate body and extending through the lumen and terminating at a distal tip distal to the distal end of the elongate body. The device further includes an expandable basket having a plurality of curved electrode legs and a temperature sensing element coupled to the expandable basket.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2012Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Asthmatx, Inc.Inventors: Christopher James Danek, Michael Biggs, Keith M. Burger, Bryan Loomas, Thomas Keast, Dave Haugaard
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Patent number: 8464723Abstract: This relates to treating an asthmatic lung and more particularly, relates to advancing a treatment device into the lung and treating the lung with the device. This also includes additional steps of treating the airway wall, applying energy or heat to the airway wall in an asthmatic lung.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Asthmatx, Inc.Inventors: Christopher J. Danek, Michael Biggs, Bryan E. Loomas, Michael D. Laufer, Gary S. Kaplan, Kelly Shriner, William J. Wizeman
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Patent number: 8459268Abstract: This relates to treating an asthmatic lung and more particularly, relates to advancing a treatment device into the lung and treating the lung with the device. This also includes additional steps of treating the airway wall, applying energy or heat to the airway wall in an asthmatic lung.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2012Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Asthmatx, Inc.Inventors: Christopher James Danek, Michael Biggs, Bryan Loomas, Michael D. Laufer, Gary Kaplan, Kelly Shriner
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Patent number: 8443810Abstract: This relates to treating an asthmatic lung and more particularly, relates to advancing a treatment device into the lung and treating the lung with the device. This also includes additional steps of treating the airway wall, applying energy or heat to the airway wall in an asthmatic lung.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2006Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Asthmatx, Inc.Inventors: Christopher James Danek, Michael Biggs, Bryan Loomas, Michael D. Laufer, Gary Kaplan, Kelly Shriner
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Publication number: 20130023968Abstract: Methods and devices for treating reversible chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are disclosed, which include a device for delivering energy to a wall of an airway in a human lung. The device includes a flexible elongate body with a proximal portion, a distal portion, a distal end, and a lumen extending therebetween. The device also includes a deployment member having an electrically conducting wire extending from the proximal portion of the elongate body and extending through the lumen and terminating at a distal tip distal to the distal end of the elongate body. The device further includes an expandable basket having a plurality of curved electrode legs and a temperature sensing element coupled to the expandable basket.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2012Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: Asthmatx, Inc.Inventors: Christopher James DANAEK, Michael Biggs, Keith M. Burger, Bryan Loomas, Thomas Keast, Dave Haugaard
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Patent number: 8298224Abstract: Control systems and methods for delivery of energy that may include control algorithms that prevent energy delivery if a fault is detected and may provide energy delivery to produce a substantially constant temperature at a delivery site. In some embodiments, the control systems and methods may be used to control the delivery of energy, such as radiofrequency energy, to body tissue, such as lung tissue.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2006Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Asthmatx, Inc.Inventors: Christopher J. Danek, William J. Wizeman, Tim R. Dalbec, Gary S. Kaplan
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Patent number: 8292882Abstract: Control systems and methods for delivery of energy that may include control algorithms that prevent energy delivery if a fault is detected and may provide energy delivery to produce a substantially constant temperature at a delivery site. In some embodiments, the control systems and methods may be used to control the delivery of energy, such as radiofrequency energy, to body tissue, such as lung tissue.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2006Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Asthmatx, Inc.Inventors: Christopher J. Danek, William J. Wizeman, Tim R. Dalbec, Gary S. Kaplan
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Patent number: 8267094Abstract: Methods of increasing gas exchange performed by the lung by damaging lung cells, damaging tissue, causing trauma, and/or destroying airway smooth muscle tone with an apparatus inserted into an airway of the lung. The damaging of lung cells, damaging tissue, causing trauma, and destroying airway smooth muscle tone with the apparatus may be any one of or combinations of the following: heating the airway; cooling the airway; delivering a liquid to the airway; delivering a gas to the airway; puncturing the airway; tearing the airway; cutting the airway; applying ultrasound to the airway; and applying ionizing radiation to the airway.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2008Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Asthmatx, Inc.Inventors: Christopher J. Danek, Bryan E. Loomas, Thomas M. Keast, Michael D. Laufer
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Patent number: 8257413Abstract: This relates to methods and devices for treating reversible chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and more particularly, relates to a device for exchanging energy with airway tissue such as that found in the airway of human lungs. The exchange of energy with this airway tissue in the airways reduces the ability of the air ways to constrict and/or reduces the resistance within the airway to the flow of air through the airway. This also relates to a method for decreasing responsiveness or decreasing resistance to airflow of airways involves the transfer of energy to or from the airway walls to prevent or reduce airway constriction and other symptoms of lung diseases. The treatment reduces the ability of the airway to contract during an acute narrowing of the airways, reduces mucus plugging of the airways, and/or increases the airway diameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2006Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Asthmatx, Inc.Inventors: Christopher James Danek, Michael Biggs, Keith M. Burger, Bryan Loomas, Thomas Keast, Dave Haugaard
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Patent number: 8251070Abstract: This relates to a method of treating airways in a lung to decrease asthmatic symptoms. The method also includes steps of measuring a parameter of an airway at a plurality of locations in a lung, identifying at least one treatment site from at least one of the plurality of locations based on the parameter, and applying energy to the treatment site to reduce the ability of the site to narrow.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2006Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Asthmatx, Inc.Inventors: Christopher J. Danek, Michael Biggs, Bryan E. Loomas, Michael D. Laufer, Gary S. Kaplan, Kelly M. Shriner, William J. Wizeman
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Patent number: 8235983Abstract: Systems and methods for delivering energy to passageways in a patient, such as airways in the lung of a patient for treating asthma. One embodiment of a method for delivering energy to a passageway comprises positioning an access device in a lung airway of a patient and advancing an elongated body of a treatment device along the access device until an energy delivery unit at a distal portion of the elongated body projects from the access device. The method can further include expanding the energy delivery unit such that energy delivery elements contact a sidewall of the airway and activating an energy supply coupled to the treatment device such that energy is delivered to the sidewall of the airway. A single person physically operates both the access device and the treatment device while expanding the energy delivery unit and activating the energy supply.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2007Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Asthmatx, Inc.Inventors: Noah Webster, Timothy Dalbec, Huy Phan, William Wizeman, William Evans, Matthew Presta
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Patent number: 8181656Abstract: This relates to treating an asthmatic lung and more particularly, relates to advancing a treatment device into the lung and treating the lung with the device. This also includes additional steps of treating the airway wall, applying energy or heat to the airway wall in an asthmatic lung.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2006Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Asthmatx, Inc.Inventors: Christopher J. Danek, Michael Biggs, Bryan E. Loomas, Michael D. Laufer, Gary S. Kaplan, Kelly M. Shriner
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Patent number: 8161978Abstract: A method for treating the lung during an acute episode of reversible chronic obstructive pulmonary disease such as an asthma attack. The method comprises transferring energy to an airway wall of an airway such that a diameter of the airway is increased. The energy may be transferred to the airway wall prior to, during or after an asthma attack. The energy may be transferred in an amount sufficient to temporarily or permanently increase the diameter of the airway. The method may be performed while the airway is open, closed or partially closed.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2010Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Asthmatx, Inc.Inventors: Christopher J. Danek, Bryan E. Loomas, Thomas M. Keast, Michael D. Laufer
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Publication number: 20110282229Abstract: This relates to treating an asthmatic lung and more particularly, relates to advancing a treatment device into the lung and treating the lung with the device. This also includes additional steps of treating the airway wall, applying energy or heat to the airway wall in an asthmatic lung.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2011Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: Asthmatx, Inc.Inventors: Christopher James Danek, Michael Biggs, Bryan Loomas, Michael D. Laufer, Gary Kaplan, Kelly M. Shriner, William J. Wizeman
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Publication number: 20110196288Abstract: This relates to methods and devices for achieving contact between the wall of a cavity or passageway and a medical device when used in tortuous anatomy.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2011Publication date: August 11, 2011Applicant: Asthmatx, Inc.Inventors: Gary S. Kaplan, Christopher J. Danek, William J. Wizeman, Timothy R. Dalbec, Noah Webster, Huy Phan