Patents by Inventor Bradley F. Slaker
Bradley F. Slaker 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).
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Patent number: 10675395Abstract: A method for treating a patient may include establishing an anastomosis between a pulmonary artery and an aorta; and pumping blood from the pulmonary artery to the aorta when the pulmonary artery has a pressure lower than or equal to a pressure of the aorta.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2017Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignees: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Regents of the University of MinnesotaInventors: Umang Anand, Adam J. Black, Ahmed Selim, Steven D. Reinitz, Bradley F. Slaker, Andrew D. Bicek, Paul F. Chouinard
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Patent number: 10201480Abstract: A feeding tube assembly comprising a feeding tube body and an optical system. The feeding tube body includes an administration lumen and an optical lumen. The optical lumen is isolated relative to the administration lumen, with the distal end opening corresponding to the distal opening of the administration lumen. The optical system includes an optical element and an end dispersion element. The optical element is positioned within the optical lumen and the first end of the optical element is attachable to a fiber optic line. The end dispersion element is positioned at the second end of the optical element and is structurally configured to disperse light transmitted through the optical element.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2015Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Cnicus, LLCInventors: Kathryn A. M. Waitzman, Bradley F. Slaker
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Publication number: 20170367820Abstract: A method for treating a patient may include establishing an anastomosis between a pulmonary artery and an aorta; and pumping blood from the pulmonary artery to the aorta when the pulmonary artery has a pressure lower than or equal to a pressure of the aorta.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2017Publication date: December 28, 2017Inventors: Umang Anand, Adam J. BLACK, Ahmed SELIM, Steven D. REINITZ, Bradley F. SLAKER, Andrew D. BICEK, Paul F. CHOUINARD
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Publication number: 20170065491Abstract: A feeding tube assembly comprising a feeding tube body and an optical system. The feeding tube body includes an administration lumen and an optical lumen. The optical lumen is isolated relative to the administration lumen, with the distal end opening corresponding to the distal opening of the administration lumen. The optical system includes an optical element and an end dispersion element. The optical element is positioned within the optical lumen and the first end of the optical element is attachable to a fiber optic line. The end dispersion element is positioned at the second end of the optical element and is structurally configured to disperse light transmitted through the optical element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2015Publication date: March 9, 2017Inventors: Kathryn A. M. Waitzman, Bradley F. Slaker
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Patent number: 9511185Abstract: An intravenous line lifter system for supporting one or more IV lines that extend between a patient and patient care equipment is disclosed. The system can include a first elongated support member couplable to a support for the patient care equipment, a second elongated support member coupled to the first elongated support member, a first line retention device coupled to the first elongated support member, and a second line retention device coupled to the second elongated support member proximate the second end of the second elongated support member.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2014Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignees: REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, DESIGNWISE MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Bradley F. Slaker, Teresa Herriage, Mary C. Hooke, Larry Goss
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Publication number: 20150297826Abstract: An intravenous line lifter system for supporting one or more IV lines that extend between a patient and patient care equipment is disclosed. The system can include a first elongated support member couplable to a support for the patient care equipment, a second elongated support member coupled to the first elongated support member, a first line retention device coupled to the first elongated support member, and a second line retention device coupled to the second elongated support member proximate the second end of the second elongated support member.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2014Publication date: October 22, 2015Inventors: Bradley F. Slaker, Teresa Herriage, Mary C. Hooke, Larry Goss
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Patent number: 9119706Abstract: A filter disposed at the distal end of an elongate guidewire. Catheters are provided for delivering the filter to, and retrieving the filter from, a treatment site. The catheters can be over-the-wire or single operator exchange. The catheters include a housing for receiving the filter therein. The housing has an atraumatic distal end.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2009Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED INC.Inventors: John Daniel, Brian J. Lowe, Robert Cassell, Bradley F. Slaker, John E. Arnold, Jr., Thomas E. Broome
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Patent number: 8303618Abstract: A filter disposed at the distal end of an elongate guidewire. Catheters are provided for delivering the filter to, and retrieving the filter from, a treatment site. The catheters can be over-the-wire or single operator exchange. The catheters include a housing for receiving the filter therein. The housing has an atraumatic distal end.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2004Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: John Daniel, Brian J. Lowe, Robert Cassell, Bradley F. Slaker, John E. Arnold, Jr., Thomas E. Broome
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Publication number: 20100023049Abstract: A filter disposed at the distal end of an elongate guidewire. Catheters are provided for delivering the filter to, and retrieving the filter from, a treatment site. The catheters can be over-the-wire or single operator exchange. The catheters include a housing for receiving the filter therein. The housing has an atraumatic distal end.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2009Publication date: January 28, 2010Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: John Daniel, Brian J. Lowe, Robert Cassell, Bradley F. Slaker, John E. Arnold, JR., Thomas E. Broome
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Patent number: 7618433Abstract: A filter disposed at the distal end of an elongate guidewire. Catheters are provided for delivering the filter to, and retrieving the filter from, a treatment site. The catheters can be over-the-wire or single operator exchange. The catheters include a housing for receiving the filter therein. The housing has an atraumatic distal end.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2003Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: John Daniel, Brian J. Lowe, Robert Cassell, Bradley F. Slaker, John E. Arnold, Jr., Thomas E. Broome
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Patent number: 7029440Abstract: Distal protection filter frame and method for using and manufacturing the same. A distal protection filter frame may include one or more struts, a mouth, and a filter coupled to the mouth.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2002Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Scimed Life Systems, Inc.Inventors: Thomas E. Broome, James M. Anderson, Robert L. Cassell, Verivada (Chandru) Chandrasekaran, John M. K. Daniel, Bradley F. Slaker, Jeffrey H. Vogel
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Publication number: 20030181943Abstract: A filter disposed at the distal end of an elongate guidewire. Catheters are provided for delivering the filter to, and retrieving the filter from, a treatment site. The catheters can be over-the-wire or single operator exchange. The catheters include a housing for receiving the filter therein. The housing has an atraumatic distal end.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2003Publication date: September 25, 2003Applicant: SCIMED LIFE SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: John Daniel, Brian J. Lowe, Robert Cassell, Bradley F. Slaker, John E. Arnold, Thomas E. Broome
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Publication number: 20030176885Abstract: Distal protection filter frame and method for using and manufacturing the same. A distal protection filter frame may include one or more struts, a mouth, and a filter coupled to the mouth.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2002Publication date: September 18, 2003Applicant: SCIMED LIFE SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Thomas E. Broome, James M. Anderson, Robert L. Cassell, Verivada (Chandru) Chandrasekaran, John M.K. Daniel, Bradley F. Slaker, Jeffrey H. Vogel
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Patent number: 6544280Abstract: A filter disposed at the distal end of an elongate guidewire. Catheters are provided for delivering the filter to, and retrieving the filter from, a treatment site. The catheters can be over-the-wire or single operator exchange. The catheters include a housing for receiving the filter therein. The housing has an atraumatic distal end.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2000Date of Patent: April 8, 2003Assignee: SciMed Life Systems, Inc.Inventors: John Daniel, Brian J. Lowe, Robert Cassell, Bradley F. Slaker, John E. Arnold, Jr., Thomas E. Broome
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Patent number: 6475226Abstract: Devices and methods for percutaneous translumenal minimally invasive coronary surgery, particularly bypass surgery involving the following basic steps: determining a proper location for treatment, navigating a suitable device to the treatment site, creating an extravascular opening and pathway, guiding and/or monitoring the progress of creating the opening and pathway, and maintaining the extravascular opening and pathway. One or more extravascular openings and/or pathways may be created to define a fluid path or bypass around the vascular restriction. For example, an intravascular catheter for creating an extravascular opening in a vessel wall includes an elongate shaft adapted for intravascular navigation, an anchoring mechanism disposed on the distal end of the shaft, and a tissue penetrating member having a proximal end slidably disposed in the shaft and a distal end including a tissue penetrating mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 1999Date of Patent: November 5, 2002Assignee: SciMed Life Systems, Inc.Inventors: William M. Belef, Eric M. DoBrava, Joseph D. Farrell, Jaydeep Y. Kokate, Daniel M. LaFontaine, Brian J. Lowe, Jonathan C. Sell, Bradley F. Slaker, David A. White
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Patent number: 6171327Abstract: A filter disposed at the distal end of an elongate guidewire. Catheters are provided for delivering the filter to, and retrieving the filter from, a treatment site. The catheters can be over-the-wire or single operator exchange. The catheters include a housing for receiving the filter therein. The housing has an atraumatic distal end.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 1999Date of Patent: January 9, 2001Assignee: SciMed Life Systems, Inc.Inventors: John Daniel, Brian J. Lowe, Robert Cassell, Bradley F. Slaker, John E. Arnold, Jr., Thomas E. Broome
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Patent number: 5408546Abstract: The present invention provides an improved method of manufacturing a pressure transducer of the optical fiber type and an improved pressure transducer of that type, the method including the steps of providing a housing having a greatest interior dimension less than twice the diameter of the optical fibers, deforming the housing by applying pressure thereto such that an interior dimension of the housing along one axis thereof exceeds twice the diameter of the optical fibers, and releasing the pressure on the housing so that the housing substantially resumes its undeformed state and fixedly traps the optical fibers at a preselected location within the housing. An improved pressure transducer of the optical fiber type has a housing receiving the distal end of an optical path, the housing including an aperture, and a pressure sensitive membrane disposed in covering relation to the aperture under tension.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 1993Date of Patent: April 18, 1995Assignee: MedAmicus, Inc.Inventors: Bradley F. Slaker, Richard L. Little, Bruce L. Funk