Patents by Inventor Andrew J. Kaucher

Andrew J. Kaucher has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9931439
    Abstract: Described are medical graft materials and devices which can be usefully modified with liquid additives such as cell suspensions, bioactive agents, or combinations of these. The medical graft materials and devices can have a first outer surface and a second outer surface and can define an internal chamber between the first outer surface and the second outer surface. The medical graft materials and devices can also have at least one region of the graft material interrupting the chamber and surrounded by the chamber. Also described are methods for making and using these medical graft materials and devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignees: Cook Biotech Incorporated, Muffin Incorporated
    Inventors: Neal E. Fearnot, Michael C. Hiles, Jeremy Metz, F. Joseph Obermiller, Andrew J. Kaucher, Steven Charlebois
  • Patent number: 9839721
    Abstract: Described are graft devices useful for treating surgical defects, delivery implements for delivery of the graft devices, combinations thereof, and methods for the preparation and use thereof. In certain aspects a tonsillectomy graft can include convexly curved outer edges, where the graft is sized and configured such that these outer edges reside proximate and along tonsillar pillars bounding a surgical tonsillectomy defect. The graft can include one or more pull tethers laced to the graft and functional to draw these outer edges toward one another when tensioned. The graft can be combined with a delivery implement having a delivery head and attached handle, where the delivery head is sized for receipt onto the tonsillectomy defect to deliver the graft. Additional product features, as well as associated methods, are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: P. Arun Mohan, Patrick Melder, Darin G. Schaeffer, Andrew J. Kaucher
  • Publication number: 20140188250
    Abstract: Described are medical graft materials and devices which can be usefully modified with liquid additives such as cell suspensions, bioactive agents, or combinations of these. Also described are methods for making and using these medical graft materials and devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Inventors: Neal E. Fearnot, Michael C. Hiles, Jeremy Metz, F. Joseph Obermiller, Andrew J. Kaucher, Steven Charlebois
  • Publication number: 20140148914
    Abstract: Described are graft devices useful for treating surgical defects, delivery implements for delivery of the graft devices, combinations thereof, and methods for the preparation and use thereof. In certain aspects a tonsillectomy graft can include convexly curved outer edges, where the graft is sized and configured such that these outer edges reside proximate and along tonsillar pillars bounding a surgical tonsillectomy defect. The graft can include one or more pull tethers laced to the graft and functional to draw these outer edges toward one another when tensioned. The graft can be combined with a delivery implement having a delivery head and attached handle, where the delivery head is sized for receipt onto the tonsillectomy defect to deliver the graft. Additional product features, as well as associated methods, are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Inventors: P. Arun Mohan, Patrick Melder, Darin G. Schaeffer, Andrew J. Kaucher