Patents Assigned to Heart & Company
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Publication number: 20230320434Abstract: Disclosed herein is cooling sports bra that provides both support and cooling effect to a wearer. The cooling sports bra comprises a front panel configured to cover a chest area of a human torso. The front panel includes a first layer forming an outer surface, a second layer forming an inner surface, and a pair of front cooling pads are placed between the first and second layer. The front cooling pads are either fixed to the second layer or removable between the first and the second layer. The cooling sports bra further comprises a back panel coupled to the front panel, and the back panel includes at least one back cooling layer of a size and shape either fixed or removably attached to an inner surface of the back panel. The cooling sports bra further comprises a base support band coupled to the front and back panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: Evolving Hearts Company, LLCInventor: Rochelle Akins
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Patent number: 9561375Abstract: The various embodiments herein relate to systems and methods for controlling the operation of a pulsatile heart assist device in a patient. The systems and methods include utilizing sounds and electrical signals produced by the heart to control the operation of the heart assist device.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Sunshine Heart Company Pty, Ltd.Inventors: William Suttle Peters, Rodney Gordon Parkin
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Patent number: 9555176Abstract: The present invention relates to deforming a patient's artery. In a preferred embodiment, the deformation pressure is applied to the outer wall of the artery.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Sunshine Heart Company Pty, Ltd.Inventors: William Suttle Peters, Scott Hugh Miller, Peter Andew Watterson
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Patent number: 9457136Abstract: The inventions disclosed herein relate to systems for securing medical devices to a blood vessel of a patient, including securing a vessel deforming component to a blood vessel. Certain embodiments relate to wraps configured to be secured around a blood vessel, including wraps configured to hold a vessel deformer adjacent a blood vessel, and further including, for example, a pulsatile balloon adjacent the aorta.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2015Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: SUNSHINE HEART COMPANY PTY, LTDInventors: Martin Cook, Tolga Tas, Khamporn Phanthanivong, Warrick Heald, Kenneth Lee, William Peters, Scott Miller
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Patent number: 9119908Abstract: The various embodiments herein relate to systems and methods for controlling the operation of a pulsatile heart assist device in a patient. The systems and methods include utilizing sounds and electrical signals produced by the heart to control the operation of the heart assist device.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2013Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: Sunshine Heart Company Pty. Ltd.Inventors: William Suttle Peters, Rodney Gordon Parkin
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Patent number: 9042979Abstract: The various embodiments disclosed herein relate to combination heart assist systems, methods, and devices that include both an electrical therapy device and a mechanical heart assist device. Various operational modes can be implemented using these embodiments, including a synchronized pacing mode, an internal CPR mode, and an internal workout mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2014Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: Sunshine Heart Company Pty LimitedInventors: William S. Peters, Rodney G. Parkin, David Rosa, Daniel M. Lafontaine, William T. Abraham, Benjamin Sun
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Publication number: 20140257019Abstract: The various embodiments herein relate to pumps for use with various medical devices. The pumps can be positive displacement pumps or gear pumps. Each pump has at least one fluid transfer opening defined in the pump that allows for transfer of fluid at a predetermined flow rate that provides for deflation of the device in a predetermined amount of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2014Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: Sunshine Heart Company Pty, Ltd.Inventors: Martin Cook, Will Peters, Dan Lafontaine, Phillip J. Miller, Steven Paul Woodard, Gregory W. Hall
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Patent number: 8777833Abstract: The present invention relates to providing counter-pulsation heart assist by deforming the aorta. In a preferred embodiment, the deformation pressure is applied by cyclically, preferably in synchrony with the diastolic period of the heart. The deformation pressure may be applied to the outer wall of the aorta or to a patch covering a resected opening in the wall of the aorta.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2008Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Sunshine Heart Company Pty. Ltd.Inventors: William Suttle Peters, Scott Hugh Miller, Peter Andrew Watterson
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Publication number: 20140148639Abstract: The various embodiments disclosed herein relate to combination heart assist systems, methods, and devices that include both an electrical therapy device and a mechanical heart assist device. Various operational modes can be implemented using these embodiments, including a synchronized pacing mode, an internal CPR mode, and an internal workout mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2014Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: Sunshine Heart Company PTY LTDInventors: William S. Peters, Rodney G. Parkin, David Rosa, Daniel M. Lafontaine, William T. Abraham, Benjamin Sun
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Patent number: 8702583Abstract: An actuator (10) for a heart assist device. The actuator (10) includes an inflatable balloon (12) and a shroud or wrap (14). The inflatable balloon (12) has a first body portion (22), a second body portion (26) and a flexure region joining (24) the first (22) and second (26) body portions. The shroud or wrap (14) is positioned adjacent the first body portion (24) and has a peripheral extent at least equal to the peripheral extent of the balloon flexure region (24). The balloon (12) and the shroud or wrap (14) are shaped such that the shroud or wrap (14) restrains a part of the balloon first body portion (22) at or near the flexure region (24) against displacement towards the shroud or wrap (outward displacement) past a predetermined limit but allows unrestrained displacement away from the shroud or wrap (inward displacement).Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2011Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Sunshine Heart Company Pty, Ltd.Inventor: Scott H Miller
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Publication number: 20140094645Abstract: The various embodiments disclosed herein relate to percutaneous interface lines and related methods for implanting such lines. Each percutaneous interface line has an internal component coupleable to a percutaneous component with an internal connector. The percutaneous component can have a Y-shaped end having two arms, one arm having a lumen and another arm having at least one wire. The methods for implanting a percutaneous interface line include the use of a tunneling tool having a flexible rod and a replaceable dilator tip.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Sunshine Heart Company Pty LTDInventors: Daniel Lafontaine, William Peters, Martin Cook, Tolga Tas
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Publication number: 20140051909Abstract: The various embodiments herein relate to systems and methods for controlling the operation of a pulsatile heart assist device in a patient. The systems and methods include utilizing sounds and electrical signals produced by the heart to control the operation of the heart assist device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2013Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: Sunshine Heart Company Pty Ltd.Inventors: William Suttle Peters, Rodney Gordon Parkin
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Patent number: 8591394Abstract: An apparatus and method for use in assisting a human heart are disclosed. The apparatus comprises an aortic compression means which may be fully implanatable, a fluid reservoir and a pump means adapted to pump a fluid from the reservoir to the aortic compression means so as to actuate the aortic compression means at least partly in counterpulsation with the patient's heart. In addition, the device is adapted to be wholly positioned within the right chest cavity of the patient. The aortic compression means of the device may be curved along its length so as to substantially replicate the curve of the ascending aorta.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2011Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Sunshine Heart Company Pty Ltd.Inventors: William Suttle Peters, Peter Crispin Lawrence Marsh, Geoffrey Hamilton White, Rolf Gunnar Unger, Frederick Paget Milsom, Hans Hansforth Henrichsen, Colin Edward Sullivan
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Publication number: 20130310629Abstract: The various embodiments disclosed herein relate to transcutaneous energy transfer systems comprising an internal coil positioned within a cavity of a patient and an external coil inductively coupled to the internal coil. The systems can be coupled to any implantable medical devices, such as, for example, a heart assist device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: SUNSHINE HEART COMPANY PTY LTDInventor: SUNSHINE HEART COMPANY PTY LTD
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Patent number: 8571658Abstract: A method of controlling the operation of a pulsatile heart assist device (14) in a patient (10). The method consisting of utilizing sounds produced by the heart (12) to control the operation of the heart assist device (14).Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2010Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Sunshine Heart Company Pty LtdInventors: William Suttle Peters, Rodney G. Parkin
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Patent number: 8469873Abstract: A wrap (20) for securing about a blood vessel (36) by encasing a section of the vessel. The wrap (20) being of thin flexible construction having two ends (22, 24) and two sides (26, 28). The wrap (20) is more elastic or stretchable at, near, or along at least some of its sides (22, 24) compared to at, near, or along its centre, to provide strain relief from wrapped to unwrapped aorta. The wrap (20) is not inelastic, so that loss of aortic compliance is minimised or enhanced. The wrap (20) is adapted to apply, in use, less compressive force at, near, or along at least some of its sides (22, 24) compared to at, near, or along its centre.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Sunshine Heart Company Pty LtdInventors: Scott H Miller, William Suttle Peters, Gemma De Plater
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Patent number: 8425397Abstract: A percutaneous gas-line (10) for a medical device (14). The gas-line including a first gas-line part (10a) and a second gas-line part (10b). The first gas-line part (10a) is adapted to be wholly implanted in a patient and has a first end (10a?) adapted for sealing connection to the medical device (14) and a second end (10a?) with a connection fitting (20). The second gas-line part (10b) is adapted to be part-implanted and part-external and has a first (external) end (10b?) adapted for sealing connection to an external driver (12) and a second (implanted) end (10b?) adapted for removable sealing connection with the connection fitting (20) on the second end (10a?) of the first gas-line part (10a).Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2010Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Sunshine Heart Company PTY LtdInventor: William Suttle Peters
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Publication number: 20120220816Abstract: An apparatus and method for use in assisting a human heart are disclosed. The apparatus comprises an aortic compression means which may be fully implanatable, a fluid reservoir and a pump means adapted to pump a fluid from the reservoir to the aortic compression means so as to actuate the aortic compression means at least partly in counterpulsation with the patient's heart. In addition, the device is adapted to be wholly positioned within the right chest cavity of the patient. The aortic compression means of the device may be curved along its length so as to substantially replicate the curve of the ascending aorta.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2011Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: Sunshine Heart Company PTY, LTDInventors: William Suttle Peters, Peter Crispin Lawrence Marsh, Geoffrey Hamilton White, Rolf Gunnar Unger, Frederick Paget Milsom, Hans Hansforth Henrichsen, Colin Edward Sullivan
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Publication number: 20120065457Abstract: A fluid pressure generating means (10) for a heart assist device having blood pumping means. The pressure generating means (10) includes a housing (11), defining an interior volume (18), and having a substantially rigid first housing portion (12), a substantially rigid second housing portion (14), a flexible third housing portion (16) extending between the first (12) and second (14) housing portions and an inlet/outlet port (15) adapted for fluid communication with the blood pumping means. The pressure generating means (10) also includes a fluid filling the housing and a motor (20) disposed within the housing (11) and connected between the first (12) and second (14) housing portions. Actuation of the motor (20) moves the first (12) and second (14) housing portions relative to one another to generate fluid pressure changes at the inlet/outlet port (15). A related heart assist device and method for the treatment of congestive heart failure, myocardial ischemia and like conditions are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicant: Sunshine Heart Company PTY LTDInventors: William Suttle Peters, Hans H. Henrichsen, Peter A. Watterson
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Publication number: 20110275883Abstract: A percutaneous gas-line (10) for a medical device (14). The gas-line including a first gas-line part (10a) and a second gas-line part (10b). The first gas-line part (10a) is adapted to be wholly implanted in a patient and has a first end (10a?) adapted for sealing connection to the medical device (14) and a second end (10a?) with a connection fitting (20). The second gas-line part (10b) is adapted to be part-implanted and part-external and has a first (external) end (10b?) adapted for sealing connection to an external driver (12) and a second (implanted) end (10b?) adapted for removable sealing connection with the connection fitting (20) on the second end (10a?) of the first gas-line part (10a).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2010Publication date: November 10, 2011Applicant: Sunshine Heart Company PTY LTDInventor: William Suttle Peters