Patents by Inventor Christopher P. Curtis

Christopher P. Curtis 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: 12257150
    Abstract: Prosthetic heart valve assemblies and methods, apparatus, and systems used to deliver a prosthetic heart valve assembly. A prosthetic heart valve assembly includes an inner frame, a prosthetic leaflet section disposed within the inner frame extending between in inflow row of cells and an outflow row of cells of the inner frame, and an outer support stent. The inner frame is disposed within the outer support stent, and the outer support stent is coupled and/or fastened to the inner frame. The outer support stent includes a plurality leaflet capturing arms for capturing native leaflets between the leaflet capturing arms and a portion of the prosthetic heart valve assembly when the prosthetic heart valve assembly is implanted in a native valve. For example, the native leaflets can be frictionally secured between the leaflet capturing arms of the support stent and the inner frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher J. Olson, Glen T. Rabito, Dustin P. Armer, Minh T. Ma, Devin H. Marr, Cheng-Tung Huang, Hiroshi Okabe, Kevin M. Stewart, Alison S. Curtis, Philip P. Corso, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10449437
    Abstract: A toy is used for play between two players who grasp and tug at the toy in an attempt to wrest the toy from the other player's grasp. The toy has a solid body with two identical lobes arranged on a long axis of the body on opposed sides of the body. The lobes each have a truncated ovate shape with a base, and the bases of the lobes proximate to each other. The lobes are rotationally offset with respect to each other about the long axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Inventor: Christopher P. Curtis
  • Publication number: 20150220956
    Abstract: Methods, systems, means and machine-readable media embodying program instructions for creating codes, creating content with the codes, and tracking use of the codes are described. Certain methods may generate a code that includes a number of characters, determine different sections in selected content at which to insert different characters of the code such that none of the characters will be inserted in the same section, and generate new content that includes each of the characters inserted at its respective section in the selected content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventor: Christopher P. Curtis