Patents Assigned to Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.
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Patent number: 10099042Abstract: A catheter includes a balloon and a shaft having a coaxial portion including an outer tubular member having a bore, a transition neck, an access fitting adjacent the proximate end of the catheter shaft for directing a guidewire into the catheter shaft, an inflation port, a guidewire tubular member disposed coaxially in the outer tubular member, the outer tubular member and guidewire tubular member defining a first, annular inflation/deflation lumen fluid communication with the inflation port, at least one second inflation/deflation lumen separate from and non-coaxial with the guidewire tubular member and having a cross-sectional area less than the cross-sectional area of the first inflation/deflation lumen and opening at a proximate end into the first inflation/deflation lumen and at the distal end of the transition neck.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2016Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: BARD PERIPHERAL VASCULAR, INC.Inventors: Lanny R. Pepper, Charles J. Cox, William F. Davies, Jr.
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Patent number: 10065027Abstract: A non-compliant medical balloon comprises a base balloon including a pair of spaced-apart, generally conical end sections and a generally cylindrical center section connected therebetween. A braided fabric sleeve surrounds at least a portion of the base balloon, wherein the sleeve is formed of at least three substantially inelastic fibers intertwined in such a way that no two of the three fibers are twisted exclusively around one another. The sleeve is permanently affixed to the outer surface of the base balloon so as to prevent excessive expansion of the base balloon when the base balloon is internally pressurized.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2015Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: BARD PERIPHERAL VASCULAR, INC.Inventors: William F. Davies, Jr., Lanny R. Pepper, Kelli Hayes
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Patent number: 10052470Abstract: An assembly for identifying a power injectable vascular access port, including a vascular access port and an identification feature. The port is structured for power injection and includes a housing and a septum together defining a reservoir. A radiographic feature incorporated into the port is perceivable via x-ray following subcutaneous implantation, the radiographic feature identifying the port as suitable for flowing fluid at a fluid flow rate of at least 1 mL/sec therethrough. A structural feature of the port is perceivable via palpation following subcutaneous implantation, the structural feature identifying the port as suitable for accommodating a pressure within the reservoir of at least 35 psi. The identification feature is separated from the port and confirms that the port is both suitable for flowing fluid at a rate of at least 1 mL/sec therethrough and suitable for accommodating a pressure within the reservoir of at least 35 psi.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2014Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.Inventors: Kelly B. Powers, Jim C. Beasley, Guy Rome
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Patent number: 10016585Abstract: A power-injectable access port suitable for providing subcutaneous access to a patient and suitable for power injection. The access port includes a septum, a housing, and a reservoir defined by the septum and the housing. The septum may include a material that seals passages formed by puncturing the septum with a hollow slender element or another suitable access mechanism, and a radiopaque material forming a selected pattern when an x-ray is taken through the septum for identifying the power-injectable access port as being suitable for power injection. The housing and the septum may be structured for accommodating a pressure developed within the reservoir of at least 35 psi. The power-injectable access port may be designed to accommodate a flow rate of at least 1 milliliter per second of a fluid.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2015Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.Inventors: Kelly B. Powers, David M. Cise, Dwight T. Hibdon, John G. Evans
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Publication number: 20180153678Abstract: An endoluminal prosthesis including a radially expandable support member having interior and exterior surfaces and a wall with openings, a first covering member including a biocompatible polymer material at least partially positioned against the interior surface, and a second covering member including a biocompatible polymer material at least partially positioned against the exterior surface. The first covering member attaches to the second covering member at predetermined bonding locations within less than all of the openings thereby leaving unbonded regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2018Publication date: June 7, 2018Applicant: Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.Inventors: Tarun J. Edwin, Scott L. Randall, Brendan McCrea, Christopher E. Banas
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Patent number: 9913708Abstract: An endoluminal prosthesis including a radially expandable support member having interior and exterior surfaces and a wall with openings, a first covering member including a biocompatible polymer material at least partially positioned against the interior surface, and a second covering member including a biocompatible polymer material at least partially positioned against the exterior surface. The first covering member attaches to the second covering member at predetermined bonding locations within less than all of the openings thereby leaving unbonded regions.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2016Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.Inventors: Tarun J. Edwin, Scott L. Randall, Brendan McCrea, Christopher E. Banas
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Patent number: 9872672Abstract: A disposable unit for a biopsy device includes a hollow needle configured to define a longitudinal path. A sample-receiving device having a cavity is configured to move in the hollow needle along the longitudinal path between an extended position and a retracted position. A transport device is configured to move the sample-receiving device in the hollow needle between the extended position and the retracted position. The transport device includes a bendable elongate element having a proximal portion and a distal end, the distal end being connected to the sample-receiving device. The bendable elongate element has a tooth surface that is engaged by a rotatable gear. A coiling device is configured to coil the proximal portion of the bendable elongate element as the sample-receiving device is moved linearly along the longitudinal path from the extended position to the retracted position by operation of the rotatable gear.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2015Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.Inventors: Claus Reuber, Karsten Videbaek, Henrik Bagger Olsen
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Patent number: 9848956Abstract: A marking apparatus includes a rigid cannula having a peripheral wall forming a lumen that carries an imaging marker. A lateral opening in the peripheral wall is open to the lumen. The lateral opening has a proximal extent and a distal extent. A closed-off distal portion is distal to the lateral opening. A resilient end wall extends downwardly from the peripheral wall at the distal extent of the lateral opening. A stylet has a distal end having a ramp. The stylet is slidably received within the lumen of the rigid cannula for movement in the lumen. The resilient end wall of the rigid cannula is configured to engage the ramp of the distal end of the stylet when the stylet is advanced through the lumen of the rigid cannula to an extended position to substantially close off the lateral opening of the rigid cannula.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2016Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignees: Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc., Bard Shannon LimitedInventors: Steven E. Field, Ryan L. Goosen, Brian R. Mulder, Richard M. Chesbrough
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Patent number: 9827402Abstract: A non-compliant medical balloon may be changed from a deflated state to an inflated state by increasing pressure within the balloon. The non-compliant medical balloon is composed of a woven fabric layer composed of at least two woven fabric fibers forming an angle. The angle remains substantially unchanged when the balloon changes from a deflated state to an inflated state.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: BARD PERIPHERAL VASCULAR, INC.Inventors: Kelli Hayes, Lanny R. Pepper, William F. Davies, Jr.
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Patent number: 9802027Abstract: A semi-compliant fiber-reinforced medical balloon having a folded wall thickness of from about 0.0010 to about 0.0060 inches and a rated burst pressure of at least 15 atmospheres and exhibiting compliance in the radial direction of from 0.5% expansion per atmosphere to rated burst pressure of the balloon includes a base balloon formed from a semi-elastic polymer about 1.0% expansion per atmosphere when pressurized from a fully inflated diameter to the material having an elongation to break of from about 10% to about 20%, a fiber layer is disposed over the base balloon with fibers having an elongation to break of from about 10% to about 20% and an outer layer formed from a semi-elastic polymer material having an elongation to break of from about 10% to about 20% disposed over the fiber layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2016Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: BARD PERIPHERAL VASCULAR, INC.Inventors: Lanny R. Pepper, William F. Davies, Jr.
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Patent number: 9707042Abstract: An apparatus for percutaneously implanting a localization wire into a tissue mass includes a handle having a grip portion and a base. The grip portion is slidably mounted to the base. The base has a keyway. A cannula is movable relative to the handle between an insertion position and a retracted position. A localization wire is positioned to extend from the handle and into the cannula lumen. An actuator is coupled to the cannula and is configured to operate between a charged condition and a discharged condition to retract the cannula. A collar is mounted to the cannula. The collar includes a key having a key projection. The key projection is not aligned with the keyway when the actuator is in the charged condition and the key projection is aligned with the keyway to facilitate retraction of the cannula toward the retracted position to effect the discharged condition.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.Inventors: Richard M. Chesbrough, Steven E. Field, Ryan L. Goosen, Andrew R. Squires, Ronald B. Peel
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Publication number: 20170056155Abstract: An endoluminal prosthesis including a radially expandable support member having interior and exterior surfaces and a wall with openings, a first covering member including a biocompatible polymer material at least partially positioned against the interior surface, and a second covering member including a biocompatible polymer material at least partially positioned against the exterior surface. The first covering member attaches to the second covering member at predetermined bonding locations within less than all of the openings thereby leaving unbonded regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.Inventors: Tarun J. Edwin, Scott L. Randall, Brendan McCrea, Christopher E. Banas
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Patent number: 9579159Abstract: A biopsy marking apparatus for placing a radiopaque marker at the location of a percutaneous biopsy. The biopsy marking apparatus comprises an introducer in combination with a radiopaque marker. The introducer ejects the radiopaque marker at the location of the biopsy. The introducer is configured to completely eject the radiopaque marker and prevent it from being subsequently drawn into the introducer as the introducer is removed from the biopsied tissue mass. The radiopaque marker has enhanced radiopaque characteristics and enhanced non-migration characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2013Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignees: Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc., Bard Shannon LimitedInventors: Richard M. Chesbrough, Steven E. Field, Ryan L. Goosen, Jeffery W. Zerfas, Richard E. Davis
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Patent number: 9566045Abstract: A tissue handling system includes a biopsy device having an invasive unit with tissue-receiving and tissue-severing components being capable of harvesting and bringing at least one tissue sample to a point outside the body of a patient. The tissue handling system further includes a tissue collecting device adapted to be brought in detachable operative engagement with the tissue-receiving components of the biopsy device to remove the at least one tissue sample. Additionally, the tissue handling device comprises a tissue storage container configured to receive the at least one tissue sample, the entire tissue collecting device, or the part of the collecting device that contains the at least one tissue sample. The tissue storage container further is configured to receive a volume of preserving agent. The tissue handling system also comprises a vessel including the preserving agent adapted to be gas-tightly mated or coupled to the tissue storage container.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2014Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.Inventors: Karsten Videbaek, Lasse G. Staal, Tomas Gundberg, Lasse Danborg
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Patent number: 9456809Abstract: A method for operating a biopsy device to acquire at least one tissue sample from a body of a living being, including retracting a sample-receiving device through a hollow needle to a sample removal position, a tissue sample being simultaneously transported to the sample removal position by the sample-receiving device; operatively connecting a liquid supply unit to a cavity of the sample-receiving device when the sample-receiving device is at the sample removal position; and delivering a lateral flow of a flushing liquid from the liquid supply unit to the cavity of the sample-receiving device to facilitate a lateral tissue sample ejection from the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.Inventors: Martin Bondo Jorgensen, Karsten Videbaek
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Patent number: 9446223Abstract: A catheter includes a balloon and a shaft having a coaxial portion including an outer tubular member having a bore, a transition neck, an access fitting adjacent the proximate end of the catheter shaft for directing a guidewire into the catheter shaft, an inflation port, a guidewire tubular member disposed coaxially in the outer tubular member, the outer tubular member and guidewire tubular member defining a first, annular inflation/deflation lumen fluid communication with the inflation port, at least one second inflation/deflation lumen separate from and non-coaxial with the guidewire tubular member and having a cross-sectional area less than the cross-sectional area of the first inflation/deflation lumen and opening at a proximate end into the first inflation/deflation lumen and at the distal end of the transition neck.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2013Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: BARD PERIPHERAL VASCULAR, INC.Inventors: Lanny R. Pepper, Charles J. Cox, William F. Davies, Jr.
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Patent number: 9445886Abstract: A vascular prosthesis configured for direct connection to an artery. The vascular prosthesis may include a tube of material other than autologous vascular tissue, having an end formation, which is configured for surgical connection to an opening formed in the artery, and a narrower portion prior to commencement of the end formation. The end formation may have an enlarged chamber adapted to induce a concave section in the blood vessel upon attachment thereto.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2003Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.Inventors: Peter Lyon Harris, Thien Voon How
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Patent number: 9446221Abstract: A non-compliant medical balloon may be changed from a deflated state to an inflated state by increasing pressure within the balloon. The non-compliant medical balloon is composed of a woven fabric layer composed of at least two woven fabric fibers forming an angle. The angle remains substantially unchanged when the balloon changes from a deflated state to an inflated state.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2015Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: BARD PERIPHERAL VASCULAR, INC.Inventors: Kelli Hayes, Lanny R. Pepper, William F. Davies, Jr.
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Patent number: 9345458Abstract: A biopsy device includes a hollow needle, and a sample-receiving device that is movable in the hollow needle. A power-driven element having a motor is provided. A transport device is drivably coupled to the motor. The transport device includes a toothed flexible member drivably engaged with a drive gear. The toothed flexible member has a distal portion coupled to the sample-receiving device. The toothed flexible member is configured to move the sample-receiving device in the hollow needle between an extended position and a retracted position. The toothed flexible member has a proximal portion that extends proximal to the proximal end of the hollow needle. A housing element has a helical coiling-up groove configured to accommodate the proximal portion of the toothed flexible member when the sample-receiving device is retracted to the retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2014Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.Inventors: Karsten Videbaek, Martin B. Jorgensen, Lasse Danborg, Lasse G. Staal
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Patent number: 9339635Abstract: A non-compliant fiber-reinforced medical balloon comprises a first fiber layer and a second fiber layer embedded in a continuous matrix of thermally-weldable polymer material defining a barrel wall, cone walls and neck walls. The fibers of the first fiber layer have a pattern of different lengths and are divisible into a first group and a second group based on length. The length of the fibers of the second group varies progressively in accordance to their proximity to the fibers of the first group; the fibers of the second group closest to the fibers of the first group being longer than the fibers of the second group further from the fibers of the first group. The fiber of the second fiber layer winds circumferentially around the longitudinal axis of the balloon substantially over the entire length of the balloon.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: BARD PERIPHERAL VASCULAR, INC.Inventors: Lanny R. Pepper, Charles J. Cox, William F. Davies, Jr.