Patents Assigned to Icon Interventional Systems, Inc.
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Patent number: 8603158Abstract: An expandable stent for use within a body passageway having a body member with two ends and a wall surface disposed between the ends. The body member has a first diameter to permit delivery of the body member into a body passageway and a second expanded diameter. The surface of the stent is coated with a biological agent and a polymer which controls the release of the biological agent.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2004Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Icon Interventional Systems, IncInventor: Joseph G. Furst
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Patent number: 8114152Abstract: An expandable stent for use within a body passageway having a body member with two ends and a wall surface disposed between the ends. The body member has a first diameter to permit delivery of the body member into a body passageway and a second expanded diameter. The surface of the stent is coated with a biological agent and a polymer which controls the release of the biological agent.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2008Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: ICON Interventional Systems, Inc.Inventor: Joseph G. Furst
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Patent number: 8070796Abstract: A medical method that is adapted for introducing the medical device into the vascular system of a body which is designed to inhibit or prevent thrombosis after the insertion of the medical device.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2005Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: ICON Interventional Systems, Inc.Inventors: Joseph G. Furst, William G. Brodbeck
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Patent number: 8016881Abstract: The invention relates to sutures and surgical staples useful in anastomoses. Various aspects of the invention include wound closure devices that use amphiphilic copolymer or parylene coatings to control the release rate of an agent, such as a drug or a biological material, polymerizing a solution containing monomers and the agent to form a coating, using multiple cycles of swelling a polymer with a solvent-agent solution to increase loading, microparticles carrying the agent, biodegradable surgical articles with amphiphilic copolymer coatings, and sutures or surgical staples the deliver a drug selected from the group consisting of triazolopyrimidine, paclitaxol, sirolimus, derivatives thereof, and analogs thereof to a wound site.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2004Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: ICON Interventional Systems, Inc.Inventor: Joseph G. Furst
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Patent number: 7967855Abstract: A stent that is adapted for introduction into a body passageway and which releases at least one biological agent after being inserted in the body passageway. The release of the at least one biological agent can be a controlled release via molecular diffusion through a non-porous polymer layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2005Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: ICON Interventional Systems, Inc.Inventors: Joseph G. Furst, William G. Brodbeck
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Patent number: 7945409Abstract: A monitoring system and data archive system for a stent crimping process. The information concerning the crimped stent is used in deciding whether the stent is acceptable for insertion into the body cavity of a human or animal.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2004Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: ICON Interventional Systems, Inc.Inventors: Joseph G. Furst, William Brodbeck
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Patent number: 7803181Abstract: An improved medical device for use in the treatment of stenosis of the ostium of tubular organs, such as, but not limited to blood vessels. The improved medical device includes a configuration and design that enables at least one end region of the improved medical device to flare outwardly.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2008Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Icon Interventional Systems, Inc.Inventors: Joseph G. Furst, Ravish Sachar
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Publication number: 20050038472Abstract: The invention relates to sutures and surgical staples useful in anastomoses. Various aspects of the invention include wound closure devices that use amphiphilic copolymer or parylene coatings to control the release rate of an agent, such as a drug or a biological material, polymerizing a solution containing monomers and the agent to form a coating, using multiple cycles of swelling a polymer with a solvent-agent solution to increase loading, microparticles carrying the agent, biodegradable surgical articles with amphiphilic copolymer coatings, and sutures or surgical staples the deliver a drug selected from the group consisting of triazolopyrimidine, paclitaxol, sirolimus, derivatives thereof, and analogs thereof to a wound site.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2004Publication date: February 17, 2005Applicant: Icon Interventional Systems, Inc.Inventor: Joseph Furst
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Publication number: 20040181277Abstract: An expandable stent for use within a body passageway having a body member with two ends and a wall surface disposed between the ends. The body member has a first diameter to permit delivery of the body member into a body passageway and a second expanded diameter. The surface of the stent is coated with a biological agent and a polymer which controls the release of the biological agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2004Publication date: September 16, 2004Applicant: Icon Interventional Systems, Inc., an Ohio corporationInventor: Joseph G. Furst