Patents Assigned to CIBIEM, INC.
  • Patent number: 10219855
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for treating a patient having a sympathetically mediated disease associated at least in part with augmented peripheral chemoreflex or heightened sympathetic activation. The treatments include ablating one or more peripheral chemoreceptors or associated afferent nerves to reduce or remove afferent neural signals from the peripheral chemoreceptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Cibiem, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Gelfand, Howard Levin
  • Patent number: 9955946
    Abstract: Methods and devices for assessing, and treating patients having sympathetically mediated disease, involving augmented peripheral chemoreflex and heightened sympathetic tone by reducing chemosensor input to the nervous system via carotid body ablation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Cibiem, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Michael Miller, Yegor D. Sinelnikov, Zoar Jacob Engelman, Martin M. Grasse, Michael Brick Markham, Veijo T. Suorsa, Miriam H. Taimisto
  • Patent number: 9808303
    Abstract: Methods and cryogenic devices for assessing, and treating patients having sympathetically mediated disease, involving augmented peripheral chemoreflex and heightened sympathetic tone by reducing chemosensor input to the nervous system via carotid body ablation. Some methods include advancing a cryo-ablation catheter into a patient's vasculature and ablating tissue within a carotid septum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Cibiem, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Ryba, Mark Gelfand
  • Patent number: 9795784
    Abstract: Systems and methods for treating a patient with dyspnea are disclosed. A method in accordance with a particular embodiment includes identifying the patient as suffering from dyspnea, and, based at least in part on identifying the patient as suffering from dyspnea, implanting an electrical signal delivery element within the patient in signal communication with an afferent neural pathway of a carotid body chemoreceptor. The method can further include at least reducing dyspneic sensations in the patient by directing an electrical signal from the electrical signal delivery element to the neural pathway to at least partially block afferent signals from the chemoreceptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Cibiem, Inc.
    Inventors: Edwin J. Hlavka, Lynn S. Elliott
  • Patent number: 9757180
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for treating a patient having a sympathetically mediated disease associated at least in part with augmented peripheral chemoreflex or heightened sympathetic activation. The treatments include ablating one or more peripheral chemoreceptors or associated afferent nerves to reduce or remove afferent neural signals from the peripheral chemoreceptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Cibiem, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Gelfand, Howard Levin, Charles Lennox
  • Patent number: 9433784
    Abstract: Systems and methods for treating a patient with dyspnea are disclosed. A method in accordance with a particular embodiment includes identifying the patient as suffering from dyspnea, and, based at least in part on identifying the patient as suffering from dyspnea, implanting an electrical signal delivery element within the patient in signal communication with an afferent neural pathway of a carotid body chemoreceptor. The method can further include at least reducing dyspneic sensations in the patient by directing an electrical signal from the electrical signal delivery element to the neural pathway to at least partially block afferent signals from the chemoreceptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: CIBIEM, INC.
    Inventors: Edwin J. Hlavka, Lynn S. Elliott
  • Patent number: 9402677
    Abstract: Methods and cryogenic devices for assessing, and treating patients having sympathetically mediated disease, involving augmented peripheral chemoreflex and heightened sympathetic tone by reducing chemosensor input to the nervous system via carotid body ablation. Some methods include advancing a cryo-ablation catheter into a patient's vasculature and ablating tissue within a carotid septum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: CIBIEM, INC.
    Inventors: Mark S. Leung, Zoar Jacob Engelman, Martin M. Grasse, Mark Gelfand, Howard Levin
  • Patent number: 9398930
    Abstract: Methods and percutaneous devices for assessing, and treating patients having sympathetically mediated disease, involving augmented peripheral chemoreflex and heightened sympathetic tone by reducing chemosensor input to the nervous system via percutaneous carotid body ablation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: CIBIEM, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Leung, Brett Schleicher, Charles Lennox, Ary Chernomorsky, Zoar Jacob Engelman, Marat Fudim, Martin M. Grasse, Mark Gelfand, Howard Levin
  • Patent number: 9393070
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for treating a patient having a sympathetically mediated disease associated at least in part with augmented peripheral chemoreflex or heightened sympathetic activation. The treatments include ablating one or more peripheral chemoreceptors or associated afferent nerves to reduce or remove afferent neural signals from the peripheral chemoreceptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: CIBIEM, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Gelfand, Howard Levin, Charles Lennox, Marat Fudim, Zoar Jacob Engelman, Martin M. Grasse, Brett Schleicher
  • Patent number: 9283033
    Abstract: Methods and devices for assessing, and treating patients having sympathetically mediated disease, involving augmented peripheral chemoreflex and heightened sympathetic tone by reducing chemosensor input to the nervous system via carotid body ablation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: CIBIEM, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Gelfand, Charles Lennox, Ary Chernomorsky, Howard Levin, Veijo T. Suorsa, Kenneth M. Martin, Yegor D. Sinelnikov
  • Patent number: 9089700
    Abstract: Systems and methods for treating a patient with dyspnea are disclosed. A method in accordance with a particular embodiment includes identifying the patient as suffering from dyspnea, and, based at least in part on identifying the patient as suffering from dyspnea, implanting an electrical signal delivery element within the patient in signal communication with an afferent neural pathway of a carotid body chemoreceptor. The method can further include at least reducing dyspneic sensations in the patient by directing an electrical signal from the electrical signal delivery element to the neural pathway to at least partially block afferent signals from the chemoreceptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: CIBIEM, INC.
    Inventors: Edwin J. Hlavka, Lynn S. Elliott