Patents Assigned to Genyx Medical, Inc.
  • Device for delivering non-biodegradable bulking composition to a urological site
    Patent number: 6979317
    Abstract: A device for delivery of a biocompatible polymer composition for treatment of urinary incontinence provides for delivery of biocompatible polymer material and a solidification agent through two lumens. The delivery device provides better control of the precipitation of the polymer in the periurethral tissue and detachment of the precipitated mass from the delivery device. The medical device includes a needle having a lumen and an inner cannula positioned within the needle lumen and movable longitudinally in the needle lumen from an extended position to a withdrawn position to sheer or cut the delivered mass of polymer material away from the needle tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Genyx Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth M. Galt, John Wardle, Thomas J. Berryman
  • Device for delivering non-biodegradable bulking composition to a urological site
    Patent number: 6478775
    Abstract: A device for delivery of a biocompatible polymer composition for treatment of urinary incontinence provides for delivery of biocompatible polymer material and a solidification agent through two lumens. The delivery device provides better control of the precipitation of the polymer in the periurethral tissue and detachment of the precipitated mass from the delivery device. The medical device includes a needle having a lumen and an inner cannula positioned within the needle lumen and movable longitudinally in the needle lumen from an extended position to a withdrawn position to sheer or cut the delivered mass of polymer material away from the needle tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Genyx Medical Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth M. Galt, John Wardle, Thomas J. Berryman
  • Method for delivering non-biodegradable bulking composition to a urological site
    Patent number: 6425854
    Abstract: A method for delivery of a biocompatible polymer composition for treatment of urinary incontinence provides for delivery of biocompatible polymer material and a solidification agent through two lumens of a delivery device. The delivery device provides better control of the precipitation of the polymer in the periurethral tissue and detachment of the precipitated mass from the delivery device. The medical device includes a needle having a lumen and an inner cannula positioned within the needle lumen and movable longitudinally in the needle lumen from an extended position to a withdrawn position to sheer or cut the delivered mass of polymer material away from the needle tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2002
    Assignee: Genyx Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth M. Galt, John Wardle, Thomas J. Berryman