Patents by Inventor Bruce M. Burnett
Bruce M. Burnett 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: 8109949Abstract: Compression plate apparatus enables vessels to be joined together in various anastomosis configurations. The compression plates are guided to each other in a parallel orientation by guides. The compression plate apparatus may be utilized with an intraluminally directed anvil apparatus or an externally positioned anvil apparatus. One of the compression plates assists in the eversion of the anastomosis fenestra contour. One of the compression plates enables a graft vessel to be pre-everted so that the anastomosis fenestra contours are everted. The apparatus provides a structure that enables the vessels to be joined without being penetrated.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2007Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Vital Access CorporationInventors: Duane D. Blatter, Kenneth C. Goodrich, Michael C. Barrus, Bruce M. Burnett
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Patent number: 7981126Abstract: Compression plate apparatus enables vessels to be joined together in various anastomosis configurations. The compression plates are guided to each other in a parallel orientation by guides. The compression plate apparatus may be utilized with an intraluminally directed anvil apparatus or an externally positioned anvil apparatus. One of the compression plates assists in the eversion of the anastomosis fenestra contour. One of the compression plates enables a graft vessel to be pre-everted so that the anastomosis fenestra contours are everted. The apparatus provides a structure that enables the vessels to be joined without being penetrated.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2000Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Vital Access CorporationInventors: Duane D. Blatter, Kenneth C. Goodrich, Mike C. Barrus, Bruce M. Burnett
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Patent number: 7922734Abstract: Compression plate apparatus enables vessels to be joined together in various anastomosis configurations. The compression plates are guided to each other in a parallel orientation by guides. The compression plate apparatus may be utilized with an intraluminally directed anvil apparatus or an externally positioned anvil apparatus. One of the compression plates assists in the eversion of the anastomosis fenestra contour. One of the compression plates enables a graft vessel to be pre-everted so that the anastomosis fenestra contours are everted. The apparatus provides a structure that enables the vessels to be joined without being penetrated.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2007Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Vital Access CorporationInventors: Duane D. Blatter, Kenneth C. Goodrich, Michael C. Barrus, Bruce M. Burnett
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Patent number: 7901417Abstract: Compression plate apparatus enables vessels to be joined together in various anastomosis configurations. The compression plates are guided to each other in a parallel orientation by guides. The compression plate apparatus may be utilized with an intraluminally directed anvil apparatus or an externally positioned anvil apparatus. One of the compression plates assists in the eversion of the anastomosis fenestra contour. One of the compression plates enables a graft vessel to be pre-everted so that the anastomosis fenestra contours are everted. The apparatus provides a structure that enables the vessels to be joined without being penetrated.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2007Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Vital Access CorporationInventors: Duane D. Blatter, Kenneth C. Goodrich, Michael C. Barrus, Bruce M. Burnett
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Publication number: 20080287972Abstract: Compression plate apparatus enables vessels to be joined together in various anastomosis configurations. The compression plates are guided to each other in a parallel orientation by guides. The compression plate apparatus may be utilized with an intraluminally directed anvil apparatus or an externally positioned anvil apparatus. One of the compression plates assists in the eversion of the anastomosis fenestra contour. One of the compression plates enables a graft vessel to be pre-everted so that the anastomosis fenestra contours are everted. The apparatus provides a structure that enables the vessels to be joined without being penetrated.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2007Publication date: November 20, 2008Applicant: Integrated Vascular Interventional Technologies, L.C.Inventors: Duane D. Blatter, Kenneth C. Goodrich, Mike C. Barrus, Bruce M. Burnett
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Patent number: 7160311Abstract: Compression plate apparatus enables vessels to be joined together in various anastomosis configurations. The compression plates have locking components such as snap-fit components to maintain the plates together. The compression plate apparatus may be utilized with an intraluminally directed anvil apparatus or an eternally positioned anvil apparatus. One of the compression plates assists in the eversion of the anastomosis fenestra contour. One of the compression plates enables a graft vessel to be pre-everted so that the anastomosis fenestra contours are everted. The appparatus provides a structure that enables the vessels to be joined without being penetrated.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2000Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignee: Integrated Vascular Interventional Technologies, L.C. (IVIT LC)Inventors: Duane D. Blatter, Kenneth C. Goodrich, Mike C. Barrus, Bruce M. Burnett
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Patent number: 6743244Abstract: The present invention is directed to a cutting apparatus for cutting an opening in a vessel for subsequent anastomosis. The cutting apparatus includes an anvil, an anvil pull and a cutter. The anvil is inserted through a small incision at the anastomosis site and brought into contact with the interior wall of a vessel so that the anvil distends the wall of the vessel. The cutter is then urged against the portion of the vessel wall that is distended by the anvil to form an opening in the vessel wall. The anvil has a surface that is softer than the cutter so that the cutter can cut completely through the vessel and depress into the anvil.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2001Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Assignee: Integrated Vascular Interventional Technologies, L.C.Inventors: Duane D. Blatter, Kenneth C. Goodrich, Michael C. Barrus, Bruce M. Burnett, Nemo J. Tullius
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Patent number: 6726694Abstract: Anastomosis procedures are achieved through the use of an intraluminally directed anvil apparatus. The apparatus is inserted at a catheter site and is then positioned through the lumen of the blood vessel to a remote anastomosis site. The intraluminally directed anvil apparatus has an anvil pull extending from an anvil. At the anastomosis site, the anvil is extended through the wall of the vessel at an initial piercing. The anvil is too large to pass through the initial piercing so the anvil pull can be used to pull the anvil against the wall of the vessel and distend the vessel wall in preparation for being cut to form an opening. The apparatus is used with a cutter to form openings in a wall of a blood vessel. After the opening is formed then the vessel is joined with another vessel.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2000Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Integrated Vascular Interventional Technologies, L.C. (IVIT, LC)Inventors: Duane D. Blatter, Kenneth C. Goodrich, Michael C. Barrus, Bruce M. Burnett
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Patent number: 6652542Abstract: Anastomosis procedures are achieved through the use of a system adapted for use with an intraluminally directed anvil apparatus having an anvil pull extending from an anvil. The system has an engager for engaging the anvil pull so that a vessel can be distended by the anvil as the anvil pull is pulled. The system has a cutter for forming an opening in a vessel. The system is adapted for use with a compression plate apparatus used to eversion and holding everted surfaces around the opening together. The system can also be used with an externally positioned anvil apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2000Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: Integrated Vascular Interventional Technologies, L.C. (IVIT, LC)Inventors: Duane D. Blatter, Kenneth C. Goodrich, Michael C. Barrus, Bruce M. Burnett
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Patent number: 6626921Abstract: The present invention is directed to a cutting apparatus for cutting an opening in a vessel for subsequent anastomosis. The cutting apparatus includes an anvil, an anvil pull and a cutter. The anvil is inserted through a small incision at the anastomosis site and brought into contact with the interior wall of a vessel so that the anvil distends the wall of the vessel. The cutter is then urged against the portion of the vessel wall that is distended by the anvil to form an opening in the vessel wall.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2001Date of Patent: September 30, 2003Assignee: Integrated Vascular Interventional Technologies, L.C.Inventors: Duane D. Blatter, Kenneth C. Goodrich, Michael C. Barrus, Bruce M. Burnett, Nemo J. Tullius
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Patent number: 6569173Abstract: Compression plates and vascular anvils for anastomosis of structures including end-to-end and end-to-side anastomosis. Vascular anvils cooperate in the opening of the anastomosis fenestra, engagement by a compression plate and subsequent eversion of the anastomosis fenestra contour, and also in establishing the contact engagement of the anastomosed structures. Compression plates hold anastomosed structures while permitting their dilation and keeping the anastomosis leak-proof. One of the compression plates assists in the eversion of the anastomosis fenestra contour. These compression plates and vascular anvils can be used with or without catheterization in minimally invasive interventions.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1999Date of Patent: May 27, 2003Assignee: Integrated Vascular Interventional Technologies, L.C.Inventors: Duane D. Blatter, Kenneth C. Goodrich, Mike C. Barrus, Bruce M. Burnett
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Publication number: 20030078597Abstract: Anastomosis procedures are achieved through the use of an intraluminally directed anvil apparatus. The apparatus is inserted at a catheter site and is then positioned through the lumen of the blood vessel to a remote anastomosis site. The intraluminally directed anvil apparatus has an anvil pull extending from an anvil. At the anastomosis site, the anvil is extended through the wall of the vessel at an initial piercing. The anvil is too large to pass through the initial piercing so the anvil pull can be used to pull the anvil against the wall of the vessel and distend the vessel wall in preparation for being cut to form an opening. The apparatus is used with a cutter to form openings in a wall of a blood vessel. After the opening is formed then the vessel is joined with another vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2000Publication date: April 24, 2003Inventors: Duane D. Blatter, Kenneth C. Goodrich, Miichael C. Barrus, Bruce M. Burnett
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Patent number: 6551334Abstract: Anastomosis procedures and anastomosis cutting procedures are achieved with an anvil apparatus that is externally positioned through the wall of a vessel into the vessel lumen. The externally positioned anvil apparatus has an anvil that engages a cutter to form a vessel opening. The anvil is larger than the cutter to enable the vessel to be cut as it is compressed between the cutter and the anvil. The anvil may have a spherical engaging end for use with a cylindrical cutter for forming circular openings in a manner such that the anvil self centers. The anvil and cutter may also be adapted to form elliptical openings. The balloon may be solid or deployable.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2000Date of Patent: April 22, 2003Assignee: Integrated Vascular Interventional Technologies, LCInventors: Duane D. Blatter, Kenneth C. Goodrich, Mike C. Barrus, Bruce M. Burnett, Nemo J. Tullius, Jr.
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Publication number: 20020042623Abstract: The present invention is directed to a cutting apparatus for cutting an opening in a vessel for subsequent anastomosis. The cutting apparatus includes an anvil, an anvil pull and a cutter. The anvil is inserted through a small incision at the anastomosis site and brought into contact with the interior wall of a vessel so that the anvil distends the wall of the vessel. The cutter is then urged against the portion of the vessel wall that is distended by the anvil to form an opening in the vessel wall. The anvil has a surface that is softer than the cutter so that the cutter can cut completely through the vessel and depress into the anvil.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2001Publication date: April 11, 2002Inventors: Duane D. Blatter, Kenneth C. Goodrich, Michael C. Barrus, Bruce M. Burnett, Nemo J. Tullius
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Publication number: 20020038127Abstract: The present invention is directed to a cutting apparatus for cutting an opening in a vessel for subsequent anastomosis. The cutting apparatus includes an anvil, an anvil pull and a cutter. The anvil is inserted through a small incision at the anastomosis site and brought into contact with the interior wall of a vessel so that the anvil distends the wall of the vessel. The cutter is then urged against the portion of the vessel wall that is distended by the anvil to form an opening in the vessel wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2001Publication date: March 28, 2002Inventors: Duane D. Blatter, Kenneth C. Goodrich, Michael C, Barrus, Bruce M. Burnett, Nemo J. Tullius
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Publication number: 20010023354Abstract: Compression plate apparatus enables vessels to be joined together in various anastomosis configurations. The compression plates have locking components such as snap-fit components to maintain the plates together. The compression plate apparatus may be utilized with an intraluminally directed anvil apparatus or an eternally positioned anvil apparatus. One of the compression plates assists in the eversion of the anastomosis fenestra contour. One of the compression plates enables a graft vessel to be pre-everted so that the anastomosis fenestra contours are everted. The appparatus provides a structure that enables the vessels to be joined without being penetrated.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2000Publication date: September 20, 2001Inventors: Duane D. Blatter, Kenneth C. Goodrich, Mike C. Barrus, Bruce M. Burnett
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Publication number: 20010016749Abstract: Anastomosis procedures and anastomosis cutting procedures are achieved with an anvil apparatus that is externally positioned through the wall of a vessel into the vessel lumen. The externally positioned anvil apparatus has an anvil that engages a cutter to form a vessel opening. The anvil is larger than the cutter to enable the vessel to be cut as it is compressed between the cutter and the anvil. The anvil may have a spherical engaging end for use with a cylindrical cutter for forming circular openings in a manner such that the anvil self centers. The anvil and cutter may also be adapted to form elliptical openings. The balloon may be solid or deployable.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2000Publication date: August 23, 2001Inventors: Duane D. Blatter, Kenneth C. Goodrich, Mike C. Barrus, Bruce M. Burnett, Nemo J. Tullius
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Publication number: 20010004698Abstract: Compression plate apparatus enables vessels to be joined together in various anastomosis configurations. The compression plates are guided to each other in a parallel orientation by guides. The compression plate apparatus may be utilized with an intralumninally directed anvil apparatus or an externally positioned anvil apparatus. One of the compression plates assists in the eversion of the anastomosis fenestra contour. One of the compression plates enables a graft vessel to be pre-everted so that the anastomosis fenestra contours are everted. The appparatus provides a structure that enables the vessels to be joined without being penetrated.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2000Publication date: June 21, 2001Inventors: Duane D. Blatter, Kenneth C. Goodrich, Mike C. Barrus, Bruce M. Burnett
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Publication number: 20010004697Abstract: Anastomosis procedures are achieved through the use of a system adapted for use with an intraluminally directed anvil apparatus having an anvil pull extending from an anvil. The system has an engager for engaging the anvil pull so that a vessel can be distended by the anvil as the anvil pull is pulled. The system has a cutter for forming an opening in a vessel. The system is adapted for use with a compression plate apparatus used to eversion and holding everted surfaces around the opening together. The system can also be used with an externally positioned anvil apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2000Publication date: June 21, 2001Inventors: Duane D. Blatter, Kenneth C. Goodrich, Mike C. Barrus, Bruce M. Burnett