Patents by Inventor Benjamin Arcand
Benjamin Arcand 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: 11951277Abstract: A device for generating microbubbles may include a syringe having a barrel, a plunger and a syringe tip; a converging nozzle; and an aerator. The converging nozzle may have a coupling end, a converging tip opposite the coupling end, an exterior mating surface adjacent the converging tip, and an interior channel that fluidly couples the syringe tip and the converging tip. The interior channel may have a diameter that progressively decreases from the coupling end to the converging tip. The converging nozzle may be coupled to the syringe tip. The aerator may have a retention end, a discharge end, an interior air chamber, an interior circumferential lip, and a discharge channel at the discharge end. The retention end may be coupled to the converging nozzle. The interior circumferential lip may abut the exterior mating surface. One or more air channels may fluidly couple the discharge channel and the interior air chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Agitated Solutions Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Arcand, Carl Lance Boling
-
Publication number: 20230390159Abstract: A kit may include a syringe; and a mixing device. The syringe may have a barrel, a plunger, a tip, and a foamable therapeutic disposed in the barrel. The mixing device may have (A) a syringe body and a mixing tip fluidly coupled to an interior of the syringe body, and a plunger and spring disposed within the syringe body; (B) a mixing channel, a supply channel and a delivery channel; wherein one end of the mixing channel is coupled to the mixing tip and one end of the supply channel includes a connector for removably coupling to the syringe; (C) a three-way valve that is configured to selectively couple an opposite end of the mixing channel, an opposite end of the supply channel and the delivery channel to one or more of the other; and (D) a mixing element disposed in the mixing channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: Moonshot Medical LLCInventors: Benjamin Arcand, Emily Meyering
-
Patent number: 11400207Abstract: A device includes a syringe having a barrel and a syringe tip; an aerator having (i) a generally cylindrical exterior body; (ii) an inlet end; (iii) an outlet end; (iv) a tapered outlet port at its outlet end; and (v) an interior cavity comprising (A) an input port section, (B) a converging section, (C) a throat section, (D) a diverging section, (E) an outlet section, (F) a first vent that fluidly couples at least one of the throat section or the diverging section to an area outside and adjacent to the exterior body, and (G) a second vent that fluidly couples the outlet section to the area; and a housing that (x) circumferentially surrounds an end of the barrel and the aerator, (z) has an interior surface, (aa) forms a circumferential gas pocket between the interior surface and the exterior body, and (bb) has a housing discharge tip.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Agitated Solutions Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Arcand, Carl Lance Boling
-
Publication number: 20220233761Abstract: A device includes a syringe having a barrel and a syringe tip; an aerator having (i) a generally cylindrical exterior body; (ii) an inlet end; (iii) an outlet end; (iv) a tapered outlet port at its outlet end; and (v) an interior cavity comprising (A) an input port section, (B) a converging section, (C) a throat section, (D) a diverging section, (E) an outlet section, (F) a first vent that fluidly couples at least one of the throat section or the diverging section to an area outside and adjacent to the exterior body, and (G) a second vent that fluidly couples the outlet section to the area; and a housing that (x) circumferentially surrounds an end of the barrel and the aerator, (z) has an interior surface, (aa) forms a circumferential gas pocket between the interior surface and the exterior body, and (bb) has a housing discharge tip.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2021Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: Agitated Solutions Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Arcand, Carl Lance Boling
-
Publication number: 20220233760Abstract: A device for generating microbubbles may include a syringe having a barrel, a plunger and a syringe tip; a converging nozzle; and an aerator. The converging nozzle may have a coupling end, a converging tip opposite the coupling end, an exterior mating surface adjacent the converging tip, and an interior channel that fluidly couples the syringe tip and converging tip. The interior channel may have a diameter that progressively decreases from the coupling end to the converging tip. The converging nozzle may be coupled to the syringe tip. The aerator may have a retention end, a discharge end, an interior air chamber, an interior circumferential lip, and a discharge channel at the discharge end. The retention end may be coupled to the converging nozzle. The interior circumferential lip may abut the exterior mating surface. One or more air channels may fluidly couple the discharge channel and the interior air chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2021Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: Agitated Solutions Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Arcand, Carl Lance Boling
-
Publication number: 20220233762Abstract: A device includes a syringe having a barrel and a syringe tip; an aerator having (i) a generally cylindrical exterior body; (ii) an inlet end; (iii) an outlet end; (iv) a tapered outlet port at its outlet end; and (v) an interior cavity comprising (A) an input port section, (B) a converging section, (C) a throat section, (D) a diverging section, (E) an outlet section, (F) a first vent that fluidly couples at least one of the throat section or the diverging section to an area outside and adjacent to the exterior body, and (G) a second vent that fluidly couples the outlet section to the area; and a housing that (x) circumferentially surrounds an end of the barrel and the aerator, (z) has an interior surface, (aa) forms a circumferential gas pocket between the interior surface and the exterior body, and (bb) has a housing discharge tip.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: Agitated Solutions Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Arcand, Carl Lance Boling
-
Publication number: 20220152362Abstract: In some implementations, an intravascular gas exchange catheter includes (a) a catheter wall extending from a proximal end to a distal end; (b) a first internal lumen coupled to a first lumen port at the proximal end and adjacent at least a portion of the catheter wall, and a second internal lumen coupled to a second lumen port at the proximal end; and (c) an interior space enclosed by the catheter wall and disposed at the distal end, wherein the first internal lumen and second interior lumen are fluidly isolated from each other along a length of catheter wall but fluidly coupled to each other at the interior space. The catheter wall may include a porous material that facilitates diffusion of a target gas through the catheter wall, from or to a space exterior to the catheter wall, to or from the first lumen.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: Agitated Solutions Inc.Inventors: Morgan Evans, Gary Heit, Benjamin Arcand, Carl Lance Boling, Jennifer Chmura, Eric Sabelman, Stephen Ruoss
-
Publication number: 20220080106Abstract: A system for intravascular oxygenation may include a catheter shaft, a vibratory member, and an oxygen source. The catheter shaft may have a wall that extends from a proximal end to a distal end along a longitudinal axis to form a lumen. The distal end may terminate in an atraumatic tip that seals off an interior space of the lumen from an adjacent exterior space. The distal end may include a coiled spring whose coils are tightly disposed against adjacent coils. The vibratory member may be configured to produce and transmit via the wall, to the coiled spring, mechanical vibration or high-frequency acoustic energy. The oxygen source may be configured to be coupled to the proximal end and to deliver a flow of oxygen to an interior space for communication to the exterior space, through gaps that exist or are created between adjacent coils of the coiled spring.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: Agitated Solutions Inc.Inventors: Morgan Evans, Benjamin Arcand, Carl Lance Boling, Jennifer Chmura
-
Patent number: 11191888Abstract: A device for generating microbubbles may include a syringe having a barrel, a plunger and a syringe tip; a converging nozzle; and an aerator. The converging nozzle may have a coupling end, a converging tip opposite the coupling end, an exterior mating surface adjacent the converging tip, and an interior channel that fluidly couples the syringe tip and converging tip. The interior channel may have a diameter that progressively decreases from the coupling end to the converging tip. The converging nozzle may be coupled to the syringe tip. The aerator may have a retention end, a discharge end, an interior air chamber, an interior circumferential lip, and a discharge channel at the discharge end. The retention end may be coupled to the converging nozzle. The interior circumferential lip may abut the exterior mating surface. One or more air channels may fluidly couple the discharge channel and the interior air chamber.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Agitated Solutions Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Arcand, Carl Lance Boling
-
Publication number: 20210361257Abstract: A method may include intravenously directing first bubbles into a patient's venous circulatory system and to a right side of the patient's heart. The first bubbles may have sizes that fall within a first range. The method may further include monitoring the patient's heart, with ultrasound imaging, to detect presence of the first bubbles on a left side of the patient's heart. Upon detecting the first bubbles on the left side of the patient's heart, the method may further include intravenously directing second bubbles into the patient's venous circulatory system and to the right side of the patient's heart. The second bubbles may have sizes that fall within a second range that is different than the first range. Upon detecting the second bubbles on the left side of the patient's heart, the method may further include initiating treatment to minimize risk of stroke in the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: Agitated Solutions Inc.Inventors: Micah J Eimer, Morgan Evans, Benjamin Arcand, Jennifer Chmura, C. Lance Boling
-
Publication number: 20210353257Abstract: A device for generating microbubbles may include a syringe having a barrel, a plunger and a syringe tip; a converging nozzle; and an aerator. The converging nozzle may have a coupling end, a converging tip opposite the coupling end, an exterior mating surface adjacent the converging tip, and an interior channel that fluidly couples the syringe tip and converging tip. The interior channel may have a diameter that progressively decreases from the coupling end to the converging tip. The converging nozzle may be coupled to the syringe tip. The aerator may have a retention end, a discharge end, an interior air chamber, an interior circumferential lip, and a discharge channel at the discharge end. The retention end may be coupled to the converging nozzle. The interior circumferential lip may abut the exterior mating surface. One or more air channels may fluidly couple the discharge channel and the interior air chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicant: Agitated Solutions Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Arcand, Carl Lance Boling
-
Publication number: 20210113718Abstract: A method for generating microbubbles may include providing a syringe having a barrel defining an interior volume, a plunger, a tip and a check valve assembly. The check valve assembly may have an inlet port; a check valve that is configured to open when the plunger is drawn back by a user; and a nozzle in fluid communication with the interior volume and, when the check valve is open, in fluid communication with the inlet port. The method may include drawing liquid into the interior volume; removing a seal from the inlet port and drawing gas adjacent the inlet ports into the interior volume to form microbubbles in the liquid already drawn in; coupling the tip to an intravenous line associated with a patient undergoing a bubble study; and depressing the plunger to force the liquid and the formed microbubbles into the intravenous line.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: Agitated Solutions Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Arcand, Carl Lance Boling, Morgan Clyburn, Micah J. Eimer, Jennifer Chmura
-
Patent number: 10478192Abstract: Disclosed herein are detachment mechanisms for vaso-occlusive devices that allow for rapid operator-controlled release of the vaso-occlusive device into the selected site. Also disclosed are vaso-occlusive assemblies comprising these detachment mechanisms and methods of using these detachment mechanisms and vaso-occlusive assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2015Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Clifford Teoh, Michael Williams, Gregory E. Mirigian, Kirsten Carroll, James M. Anderson, Jay Rassat, Benjamin Arcand, Derek Sutermeister
-
Publication number: 20190021746Abstract: Apparatus and methods for bone cavity preparation. Formed broaching members may be supported inside a bone by a rotator. The broaching members may be bowed out inside the bone to create a cavity having a shape determined by the broaching members and bone anatomy.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Inventors: Grace Wlodarski, Alex A. Peterson, Todd A. Krinke, Michael P. Brenzel, Steve D. Kruse, Troy Michael Siemers, Benjamin Arcand, Brian John Mullins, Michael Bennett Tradewell, Erik Julian Nelson, Matthew Howard Rust, Cameron Thomas Kramer, Rachel Marie Kramer, Kyle Taylor
-
Publication number: 20170354419Abstract: Disclosed herein are detachment mechanisms for vaso-occlusive devices that allow for rapid operator-controlled release of the vaso-occlusive device into the selected site. Also disclosed are vaso-occlusive assemblies comprising these detachment mechanisms and methods of using these detachment mechanisms and vaso-occlusive assemblies.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2015Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Clifford TEOH, Michael Williams, Gregory E. Mirigian, Kirsten Carroll, James M. Anderson, Jay Rassat, Benjamin Arcand, Derek Sutermeister
-
Publication number: 20150164514Abstract: Apparatus and methods for bone cavity preparation. Formed broaching members may be supported inside a bone by a rotator. The broaching members may be bowed out inside the bone to create a cavity having a shape determined by the broaching members and bone anatomy.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2014Publication date: June 18, 2015Inventors: Grace Wlodarski, Alex A. Peterson, Todd A. Krinke, Michael P. Brenzel, Steve D. Kruse, Troy Michael Siemers, Benjamin Arcand, Brian John Mullins, Michael Bennett Tradewell, Erik Julian Nelson, Matthew Howard Rust, Cameron Thomas Kramer, Rachel Marie Kramer, Kyle Taylor
-
Patent number: 8933416Abstract: A device includes a sheath having a lumen defined by a wall. The wall has an outer surface that is configured to emit ultraviolet light in a direction substantially normal to the wall. The lumen has a distal end configured for percutaneous placement. The lumen has a proximal end configured to receive a catheter.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2010Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Regents of the University of MinnesotaInventors: Benjamin Arcand, Joseph E. Hale, Nikhil Murdeshwar, Bryan Rolfes
-
Patent number: 8932340Abstract: A delivery system has a stent and a balloon. The stent has a first section made of a plurality of interconnected framework members which define a plurality of potential side branches. The balloon is a dual lumen balloon that can inflate from the proximal end to the distal end with a plurality of protrusions and/or herniations.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2008Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Michael P. Meyer, Michael W. Davis, Benjamin Arcand, Jay Rassat, James Anderson, Derek Sutermeister
-
Patent number: 8685011Abstract: In a method of ablating a tunica of a patient, a laser fiber is inserted into the tunica of the patient. Portions of the tunica are exposed to laser light discharged from the laser fiber. The portions of the tunica that are exposed to the laser light are ablated. In one embodiment, a device is used to control the exposure of the tunica to the laser light. In one embodiment, a penile prosthesis is implanted in the ablated tunica.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2011Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: AMS Research CorporationInventor: Benjamin Arcand
-
Patent number: 8685013Abstract: In a method of ablating a tunica of a patient, a laser fiber is inserted into the tunica of the patient. Portions of the tunica are exposed to laser light discharged from the laser fiber. The portions of the tunica that are exposed to the laser light are ablated. In one embodiment, a device is used to control the exposure of the tunica to the laser light. In one embodiment, a penile prosthesis is implanted in the ablated tunica.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2013Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: AMS Research CorporationInventor: Benjamin Arcand