Patents by Inventor Chad J. Kugler
Chad J. Kugler 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: 11298511Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a device. The device may include a distal shaft defining a central lumen and an orienting element comprising at least one inflatable member. Wherein a first portion of the orienting element extending from the shaft in a first direction and a second portion of the orienting element extending from the shaft in a second direction. Further, wherein the second direction is substantially opposite the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: BRIDGEPOINT MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Chad J. Kugler, Matthew J. Olson, Ross A. Olson, David B. Robinson
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Publication number: 20220096803Abstract: Devices and methods for the treatment of chronic total occlusions are provided. One disclosed embodiment comprises a method of facilitating treatment via a vascular wall defining a vascular lumen containing an occlusion therein. The method includes providing an intravascular device having a distal portion with a lumen extending therein; inserting the device into the vascular lumen; positioning the distal portion in the vascular wall; and directing the distal portion within the vascular wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: BRIDGEPOINT MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: CHAD J. KUGLER, ROBERT E. ATKINSON
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Publication number: 20220080156Abstract: A device for guiding and supporting a stent delivery catheter and other catheters is disclosed. The device may comprise a tubular guiding member and an elongated positioning member extending in a proximal direction beyond the tubular guiding member for advancing and retracting the tubular guiding member in distal and proximal directions. A distal portion of the elongate positioning member may be coupled to the proximal portion of the tubular guide. In embodiments, the device includes a ribbon having a distal portion and a proximal portion. In embodiments, the distal portion of the ribbon extends distally into the tubular guiding member and the proximal portion of the ribbon overlays an inner surface of the elongate positioning member. Methods for making medical devices and portions of medical devices (e.g., intravascular catheters, catheter shafts, and tubular guiding members) are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Chad J. Kugler, Ross A. Olson
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Patent number: 11229776Abstract: Devices and methods for the treatment of chronic total occlusions are provided. One disclosed embodiment comprises a method of facilitating treatment via a vascular wall defining a vascular lumen containing an occlusion therein. The method includes providing an intravascular device having a distal portion with a lumen extending therein; inserting the device into the vascular lumen; positioning the distal portion in the vascular wall; and directing the distal portion within the vascular wall.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: BRIDGEPOINT MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Chad J. Kugler, Robert E. Atkinson
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Publication number: 20210322050Abstract: Devices and methods for the treatment of chronic total occlusions are provided. One disclosed embodiment comprises a method of facilitating treatment via a vascular wall defining a vascular lumen containing an occlusion therein. The method includes providing an intravascular device having a distal portion, inserting the device into the vascular lumen, positioning the distal portion in the vascular wall to at least partially surround the occlusion, and removing at least a portion of the surrounded occlusion from the lumen.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: BRIDGEPOINT MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: CHAD J. KUGLER, ROBERT E. ATKINSON
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Publication number: 20210307752Abstract: The present disclosure is directed a method of facilitating treatment via a vascular wall defining a vascular lumen containing an occlusion therein. The method may include providing a first intravascular device having a distal portion and at least one aperture and positioning the distal portion of the first intravascular device in the vascular wall. The method may further include providing a reentry device having a body and a distal tip, the distal tip having a natural state and a compressed state and inserting the distal tip, in the compressed state, in the distal portion of the first intravascular device. The method may further include advancing the distal tip, in the natural state, through the at least one aperture of the first intravascular device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Applicant: BRIDGEPOINT MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: CHAD J. KUGLER, MATTHEW J. OLSON, ROSS A. OLSON, DAVID B. ROBINSON, PETER ALAN JACOBS
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Publication number: 20210251648Abstract: Devices and methods for the treatment of chronic total occlusions are provided. One disclosed embodiment comprises a method of facilitating treatment via a vascular wall defining a vascular lumen containing an occlusion therein. The method includes providing an intravascular device having a distal portion with a side port, inserting the device into the vascular lumen, positioning the distal portion in the vascular wall, directing the distal portion within the vascular wall such that the distal portion moves at least partially laterally, and directing the side port towards the vascular lumen.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: BRIDGEPOINT MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Chad J. KUGLER, Robert E. ATKINSON
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Patent number: 11076882Abstract: Devices and methods for the treatment of chronic total occlusions are provided. One disclosed embodiment comprises a method of facilitating treatment via a vascular wall defining a vascular lumen containing an occlusion therein. The method includes providing an intravascular device having a distal portion, inserting the device into the vascular lumen, positioning the distal portion in the vascular wall to at least partially surround the occlusion, and removing at least a portion of the surrounded occlusion from the lumen.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Bridgepoint Medical, Inc.Inventors: Chad J. Kugler, Robert E. Atkinson
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Patent number: 11065002Abstract: The present disclosure is directed a method of facilitating treatment via a vascular wall defining a vascular lumen containing an occlusion therein. The method may include providing a first intravascular device having a distal portion and at least one aperture and positioning the distal portion of the first intravascular device in the vascular wall. The method may further include providing a reentry device having a body and a distal tip, the distal tip having a natural state and a compressed state and inserting the distal tip, in the compressed state, in the distal portion of the first intravascular device. The method may further include advancing the distal tip, in the natural state, through the at least one aperture of the first intravascular device.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: BRIDGEPOINT MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Chad J. Kugler, Matthew J. Olson, Ross A. Olson, David B. Robinson, Peter Alan Jacobs
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Publication number: 20210186560Abstract: Devices and methods for exploiting intramural (e.g., subintimal) space of a vascular wall to facilitate the treatment of vascular disease, particularly total occlusions. For example, the devices and methods disclosed herein may be used to visually define the vessel wall boundary, protect the vessel wall boundary from perforation, bypass an occlusion, and/or remove an occlusion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: BRIDGEPOINT MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: CHAD J. KUGLER, MATTHEW J. OLSON, ROSS A. OLSON, ROBERT E. ATKINSON
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Patent number: 11020141Abstract: Devices and methods for the treatment of chronic total occlusions are provided. One disclosed embodiment comprises a method of facilitating treatment via a vascular wall defining a vascular lumen containing an occlusion therein. The method includes providing an intravascular device having a distal portion with a side port, inserting the device into the vascular lumen, positioning the distal portion in the vascular wall, directing the distal portion within the vascular wall such that the distal portion moves at least partially laterally, and directing the side port towards the vascular lumen.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: BRIDGEPOINT MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Chad J. Kugler, Robert E. Atkinson
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Publication number: 20210153882Abstract: Devices and methods for the treatment of chronic total occlusions are provided. One disclosed embodiment comprises a method of facilitating treatment via a vascular wall defining a vascular lumen containing an occlusion therein. The method includes providing a first intravascular device having a distal portion with a concave side, inserting the first device into the vascular lumen, positioning the distal portion in the vascular wall, and orienting the concave side of the distal portion toward the vascular lumen.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2021Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: BRIDGEPOINT MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: CHAD J. KUGLER, MATTHEW J. OLSON, ROBERT E. ATKINSON
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Publication number: 20210128156Abstract: A plurality of structures that resiliently attract one another are provided for implanting in a patient around a body tissue structure of the patient. For example, the body tissue structure may be the esophagus, and the plurality of structures may be implanted in an annulus around the outside of the esophagus, the annulus being substantially coaxial with the esophagus. The attraction may be between annularly adjacent ones of the structures in the annulus, and it may be provided, for example, by magnets or springs. The array of structures is preferably self-limiting with respect to the smallest area that it can encompass, and this smallest area is preferably large enough to prevent the apparatus from applying excessive pressure to tissue passing through that area.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Chad J. Kugler, Jerome K. Grudem, JR., Todd A. Berg, William J. Swanson
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Patent number: 10939928Abstract: Devices and methods for the treatment of chronic total occlusions are provided. One disclosed embodiment comprises a method of facilitating treatment via a vascular wall defining a vascular lumen containing an occlusion therein. The method includes providing a first intravascular device having a distal portion with a concave side, inserting the first device into the vascular lumen, positioning the distal portion in the vascular wall, and orienting the concave side of the distal portion toward the vascular lumen.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: BRIDGEPOINT MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Chad J. Kugler, Matthew J. Olson, Robert E. Atkinson
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Patent number: 10888354Abstract: Devices and methods for exploiting intramural (e.g., subintimal) space of a vascular wall to facilitate the treatment of vascular disease, particularly total occlusions. For example, the devices and methods disclosed herein may be used to visually define the vessel wall boundary, protect the vessel wall boundary from perforation, bypass an occlusion, and/or remove an occlusion.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2007Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: BRIDGEPOINT MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Chad J. Kugler, Matthew J. Olson, Ross A. Olson, Robert E. Atkinson
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Publication number: 20200405348Abstract: Devices and methods for the treatment of chronic total occlusions are provided. One disclosed embodiment comprises a method of facilitating treatment via a vascular wall defining a vascular lumen containing an occlusion therein. The method includes inserting an intramural crossing device into the vascular lumen, positioning at least the distal tip of the crossing device in the vascular wall, advancing an orienting device over the crossing device such that an orienting element of the orienting device resides in the vascular wall, inserting a reentry device, and re-entering the true vascular lumen.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: BridgePoint Medical, Inc.Inventors: CHAD J. KUGLER, ROBERT E. ATKINSON, MATTHEW J. OLSON
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Patent number: 10874400Abstract: A plurality of structures that resiliently attract one another are provided for implanting in a patient around a body tissue structure of the patient. For example, the body tissue structure may be the esophagus, and the plurality of structures may be implanted in an annulus around the outside of the esophagus, the annulus being substantially coaxial with the esophagus. The attraction may be between annularly adjacent ones of the structures in the annulus, and it may be provided, for example, by magnets or springs. The array of structures is preferably self-limiting with respect to the smallest area that it can encompass, and this smallest area is preferably large enough to prevent the apparatus from applying excessive pressure to tissue passing through that area.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Torax Medical, Inc.Inventors: Chad J. Kugler, Jerome K. Grudem, Jr., Todd A. Berg, William J. Swanson
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Patent number: 10806487Abstract: Devices and methods for the treatment of chronic total occlusions are provided. One disclosed embodiment comprises a method of facilitating treatment via a vascular wall defining a vascular lumen containing an occlusion therein. The method includes inserting an intramural crossing device into the vascular lumen, positioning at least the distal tip of the crossing device in the vascular wall, advancing an orienting device over the crossing device such that an orienting element of the orienting device resides in the vascular wall, inserting a reentry device, and re-entering the true vascular lumen.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: BridgePoint Medical, Inc.Inventors: Chad J. Kugler, Robert E. Atkinson, Matthew J. Olson
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Patent number: 10806474Abstract: A system and method for treating a blood vessel that is at least partially obstructed by an occlusion which divides the lumen into a proximal lumen segment and a distal lumen segment. The system includes an orienting catheter having an orientation element positionable in an intrawall space of the vessel and an occlusion catheter having an occlusion balloon inflatable in the proximal lumen segment so as to isolate a target volume including the intrawall space. The pressure inside the target volume is reduced to a pressure below the pressure of the distal lumen segment so that the intima presses against the orienting element of the orienting catheter. A distal end of a reentry device may be advanced from the orienting catheter through the intima and into the distal lumen segment.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Chad J. Kugler, David B. Robinson
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Publication number: 20200155188Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for treating diseases and disorders effecting the cardiovascular system of the human body are disclosed. An exemplary device in accordance with this disclosure comprises a shaft, tip member fixed to the shaft, and a probe extending beyond a distal surface of the tip member. In some useful embodiments, the tip member is relatively atraumatic and the probe is shaped so as to be more likely to produce trauma than the tip member.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2020Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: BridgePoint Medical, Inc.Inventors: Matthew J. Olson, Chad J. Kugler, Ross A. Olson, David B. Robinson, Peter A. Jacobs