Patents by Inventor Christopher E. Banas

Christopher E. Banas 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).

  • METHODS FOR MAKING AN ENCAPSULATED STENT AND INTRALUMINAL DELIVERY THEREOF
    Publication number: 20110196473
    Abstract: A method for making an encapsulated stent includes providing a first seamless unsintered ePTFE tube, providing a second seamless sintered ePTFE tube, positioning a self-expanding stent between the first and second ePTFE tubes to form an assembly, disposing an ePTFE interlayer member between the first and second ePTFE tubes, and joining the first ePTFE tube to the second ePTFE tube through openings in a wall of the stent by applying first pressure, and then heat, to the assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan J. McCrea, Tarun J. Edwin, Christopher E. Banas
  • Endoluminal stent having mid-strut interconnecting members
    Patent number: 7980289
    Abstract: An endoluminal stent composed of a plurality of circumferential expansion elements arrayed to form the circumference of the stent and extending along the longitudinal axis of the stent, and a plurality of interconnecting members that interconnect adjacent pairs of circumferential expansion elements, the interconnecting members joining struts of adjacent pairs of interconnecting members at approximate mid-points of the struts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd.
    Inventors: Christopher E. Banas, David G. Rosenbaum
  • Methods for making an encapsulated stent and intraluminal delivery thereof
    Patent number: 7939000
    Abstract: A method for making an encapsulated stent includes providing a first seamless unsintered ePTFE tube, providing a second seamless sintered ePTFE tube, positioning a self-expanding stent between the first and second ePTFE tubes to form an assembly, and joining the first ePTFE tube to the second ePTFE tube through openings in a wall of the stent by applying first pressure, and then heat, to the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.
    Inventors: Tarun J. Edwin, Brendan McCrea, Christopher E. Banas
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIMULTANEOUS HEMOGLOBIN REFLECTIVITY MEASUREMENT AND OCT MEASUREMENT, THROMBUS DETECTION AND TREATMENT, AND OCT FLUSHING
    Publication number: 20110077528
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for simultaneous hemoglobin reflectivity measurement and OCT measurement, thrombus detection and treatment, and OCT flushing. A first optical energy for OCT and a second optical energy for hemoglobin may be used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Volcano Coproration
    Inventors: Nathaniel J. Kemp, Thomas E. Milner, Christopher E. Banas, Vincent J. Burgess, Paulina M. Margolis
  • METHODS OF MAKING MEDICAL DEVICES
    Publication number: 20110056909
    Abstract: Scaffold-supported metal or pseudometallic film covers suitable for use as medical devices are disclosed together with methods of fabricating the devices. Methods for making the medical devices consist of either providing or forming a scaffold, then depositing a metallic or pseudometallic film cover onto the scaffold in such a manner as to form an integral, substantially monolithic junction between the deposited cover material and the scaffold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Palmaz Scientific, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel D. Sims, Jeffrey N. Steinmetz, Conor P. Mullens, Alexander Parker Wood, Christopher E. Banas
  • IMPLANTABLE GRAFT AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME
    Publication number: 20100217373
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an implantable endoluminal graft comprised of a microporous thin-film covering having a plurality of openings and a structural support element underlying and physically attached to the microporous thin-film covering, the microporous thin-film covering having shape memory properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Palmaz Scientific, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher T. Boyle, Denes Marton, Christopher E. Banas
  • ENDOLUMINAL IMPLANTABLE STENT-GRAFTS
    Publication number: 20100191317
    Abstract: An implantable endoluminal device that is fabricated from materials that present a blood or body fluid and tissue contact surface that has controlled heterogeneities in material constitution. An endoluminal stent-graft and web-stent that is made of an monolithic material deposited into a monolayer and etched into regions of structural members and web regions subtending interstitial regions between the structural members. An endoluminal graft is also provided which is made of a biocompatible metal or metal-like material. The endoluminal stent-graft is characterized by having controlled heterogeneities in the stent material along the blood flow surface of the stent and the method of fabricating the stent using vacuum deposition methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd., A Wholly owned subsidiary of Palmaz Scientific, Inc.
    Inventors: Julio C. Palmaz, Christopher T. Boyle, Christopher E. Banas, Roger W. Wiseman, Denes Marton
  • Methods of making medical devices
    Patent number: 7736687
    Abstract: Scaffold-supported metal or pseudometallic film covers suitable for use as medical devices are disclosed together with methods of fabricating the devices. Methods for making the medical devices consist of either providing or forming a scaffold, then depositing a metallic or pseudometallic film cover onto the scaffold in such a manner as to form an integral, substantially monolithic junction between the deposited cover material and the scaffold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Advance Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daniel D. Sims, Jeffrey N. Steinmetz, Conor P. Mullens, Alexander Parker Wood, Christopher E. Banas
  • Implantable graft and methods of making same
    Patent number: 7704274
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an implantable endoluminal graft comprised of a microporous thin-film covering having a plurality of openings and a structural support element underlying and physically attached to the microporous thin-film covering, the microporous thin-film covering having shape memory properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Advanced Bio Prothestic Surfaces, Ltd.
    Inventors: Christopher T. Boyle, Denes Marton, Christopher E. Banas
  • High strength vacuum deposited nitinol alloy films and method of making same
    Patent number: 7670690
    Abstract: A vacuum deposition method for fabricating high-strength nitinol films by sputter depositing nickel and titanium from a heated sputtering target, and controlling the sputter deposition process parameters in order to create high-strength nitinol films that exhibit shape memory and/or superelastic properties without the need for precipitation annealing to attenuate the transition conditions of the deposited material. A vacuum deposited nitinol film having high-strength properties equal to or better than wrought nitinol films and which are characterized by having non-columnar crystal grain structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd.
    Inventors: Denes Marton, Christopher T. Boyle, Roger W. Wiseman, Christopher E. Banas
  • Endoluminal implantable stent-grafts
    Patent number: 7641680
    Abstract: An implantable endoluminal device that is fabricated from materials that present a blood or body fluid and tissue contact surface that has controlled heterogeneities in material constitution. An endoluminal stent-graft and web-stent that is made of an monolithic material deposited into a monolayer and etched into regions of structural members and web regions subtending interstitial regions between the structural members. An endoluminal graft is also provided which is made of a biocompatible metal or metal-like material. The endoluminal stent-graft is characterized by having controlled heterogeneities in the stent material along the blood flow surface of the stent and the method of fabricating the stent using vacuum deposition methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd.
    Inventors: Julio C. Palmaz, Christopher T. Boyle, Christopher E. Banas, Roger W. Wiseman, Denes Marton
  • METHODS FOR MAKING A SUPPORTED GRAFT
    Publication number: 20090311132
    Abstract: A method for forming a self-expanding stent-graft, including coupling a shape memory member to a polymer cladding to form a polymer clad member, winding a length of the polymer clad member about a mandrel so that adjacent windings include regions of polymer cladding that overlap, heating the wound polymer clad member to join and seal the overlapping regions to one another, manipulating the stent-graft from a first diameter to a second diameter smaller than the first diameter, and loading the stent-graft into a restraining sheath, wherein the restraining sheath prevents the stent-graft from reverting to the first diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: C.R. Bard, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher E. Banas, Tarun J. Edwin, Brendan J. McCrea, Rajagopal R. Kowligi
  • Endoluminal device exhibiting improved endothelialization and method of manufacture thereof
    Patent number: 7625594
    Abstract: An implantable endoluminal device which is fabricated from materials which present a blood or body fluid and tissue contact surface which has controlled heterogeneities in material constitution. An endoluminal stent which is made of a material having controlled heterogeneities in the stent material along the blood flow surface of the stent and the method of fabricating the stent using vacuum deposition methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd.
    Inventors: Julio C. Palmaz, Eugene A. Sprague, Cristina Simon, Denes Marton, Roger W. Wiseman, Christopher E. Banas
  • Methods for making a supported graft
    Patent number: 7578899
    Abstract: A method for forming a self-expanding stent-graft. The method includes coupling a shape memory member to a polymer cladding to form a polymer clad member, winding a length of the polymer clad member about a mandrel so that the polymer cladding has overlapping regions that form seams, and heating the wound polymer clad member to join and seal the overlapping regions to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: C. R. Bard, Inc.
    Inventors: Tarun J. Edwin, Rajagopal R. Kowligi, Brendan McCrea, Christopher E. Banas
  • STENTS WITH METALLIC COVERS AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME
    Publication number: 20090132022
    Abstract: All metal stent grafts and covered stents having either a single structural supporting stent member with concentrically positioned graft members on the luminal and abluminal surfaces of the stent member or a single graft member with concentrically positioned structural supporting stent members on the luminal and abluminal surfaces of the graft member are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd.
    Inventor: Christopher E. Banas
  • METHODS FOR MAKING AN ENCAPSULATED STENT AND INTRALUMINAL DELIVERY THEREOF
    Publication number: 20090125092
    Abstract: A method for making an encapsulated stent includes providing a first seamless unsintered ePTFE tube, providing a second seamless sintered ePTFE tube, positioning a self-expanding stent between the first and second ePTFE tubes to form an assembly, and joining the first ePTFE tube to the second ePTFE tube through openings in a wall of the stent by applying first pressure, and then heat, to the assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: C.R. Bard, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan J. McCrea, Tarun J. Edwin, Christopher E. Banas
  • Endoluminal implantable stent-grafts
    Patent number: 7491226
    Abstract: An implantable endoluminal device that is fabricated from materials that present a blood or body fluid and tissue contact surface that has controlled heterogeneities in material constitution. An endoluminal stent-graft and web-stent that is made of an monolithic material deposited into a monolayer and etched into regions of structural members and web regions subtending interstitial regions between the structural members. An endoluminal graft is also provided which is made of a biocompatible metal or metal-like material. The endoluminal stent-graft is characterized by having controlled heterogeneities in the stent material along the blood flow surface of the stent and the method of fabricating the stent using vacuum deposition methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd.
    Inventors: Julio C. Palmaz, Christopher T. Boyle, Christopher E. Banas, Roger W. Wiseman, Denes Marton
  • Diametrically adaptable encapsulated stent and methods for deployment thereof
    Patent number: 7468071
    Abstract: An implantable intraluminal device having a self-expanding stent encapsulated between a first and second seamless ePTFE tube. The implantable intraluminal device has a reduced first diametric dimension and an expanded second diametric dimension, and is adapted to be modeled to the in vivo profile of a receiving anatomical structure through radial expansion of at least a portion thereof to a third diametric dimension greater than the second diametric dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: C. R. Bard, Inc.
    Inventors: Tarun J. Edwin, Brendan McCrea, Christopher E. Banas
  • HIGH STRENGTH VACUUM DEPOSITED NITINOL ALLOY FILMS AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME
    Publication number: 20080171214
    Abstract: A vacuum deposition method for fabricating high-strength nitinol films by sputter depositing nickel and titanium from a heated sputtering target, and controlling the sputter deposition process parameters in order to create high-strength nitinol films that exhibit shape memory and/or superelastic properties without the need for precipitation annealing to attenuate the transition conditions of the deposited material. A vacuum deposited nitinol film having high-strength properties equal to or better than wrought nitinol films and which are characterized by having non-columnar crystal grain structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Applicant: Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd.
    Inventors: Denes Marton, Christopher T. Boyle, Roger W. Wiseman, Christopher E. Banas
  • High strength vacuum deposited nitinol alloy films and method of making same
    Patent number: 7335426
    Abstract: A vacuum deposition method for fabricating high-strength nitinol films by sputter depositing nickel and titanium from a heated sputtering target, and controlling the sputter deposition process parameters in order to create high-strength nitinol films that exhibit shape memory and/or superelastic properties without the need for precipitation annealing to attenuate the transition conditions of the deposited material. A vacuum deposited nitinol film having high-strength properties equal to or better than wrought nitinol films and which are characterized by having non-columnar crystal grain structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd.
    Inventors: Denes Marton, Christopher T. Boyle, Roger W. Wiseman, Christopher E. Banas