Patents Examined by Aamer Syed Ahmed
  • Patent number: 7211073
    Abstract: Methods and devices for selectively removing an agent from a physiological efferent fluid collection site are provided. A feature of the invention is that a non-occlusive aspiration device is employed to selectively remove the target agent from the site only when the target agent is present in the site. Also provided are systems and kits for performing the subject methods. The subject invention finds use in a variety of different applications, including the selective removal of both therapeutic and diagnostic agents from a variety of different physiological sites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Catharos Medical Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Peter J. Fitzgerald, Brian K. Courtney, Ali Hassan
  • Patent number: 7182756
    Abstract: A device for directing a wire guide into a bodily passageway such as a branch of the biliary tree or other difficult to access bodily passageway. The device includes a member, such as an inflatable balloon or a self-expanding basket, for obstructing a first passage. Once the balloon is inflated, or the basket expanded, the wire guide can be reliably directed or deflected into a preferred adjacent passageway in order to cannulate the preferred adjacent passageway. A procedure for cannulating a preferred passageway by obstructing a passageway in the natural flow-path of a wire guide is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Wilson-Cook Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Zahid Saeed, Vihar C. Surti
  • Patent number: 7056300
    Abstract: A needleless syringe comprises a reservoir sealed with mobile closure elements enclosed the liquid, the reservoir being initially isolated from the injection system which is so designed that it comprises at least two peripheral injection conduits located outside a receptacle comprising a blind bore which receives the downstream closure element such that the inlets of the conduits are cleared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Crossject
    Inventors: Patrick Alexandre, Bernard Brouquieres, Xavière Castano, Philippe Gautier