Patents by Inventor Christopher Tarapata
Christopher Tarapata 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: 8454612Abstract: Embodiments relate generally to tissue anchors and methods of delivering same to the intervertebral disc or other sites within the body. In some embodiments, the anchors provide increased pull-out resistance, stability and/or contact with tissue involving a reduced amount of penetration. In some embodiments, delivery methods are minimally invasive and can include linear, lateral, and off-angle implantation or driving of anchors along, against or within tissue surfaces. Several embodiments disclose anchors and anchoring systems that effectively reconstruct or augment vertebral endplate surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2009Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Intrinsic Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Lambrecht, Thomas Boyajian, Almir Velagic, Robert Kevin Moore, Christopher Tarapata, Jacob Einhorn, Sean Kavanaugh
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Patent number: 8394146Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate generally to tissue anchors and methods of delivering same to the intervertebral disc or other sites within the body. In some embodiments, the anchors provide pull-out resistance, stability and/or maximize contact with tissue involving a minimum amount of penetration. In some embodiments, delivery methods are minimally invasive and include linear, lateral, and off-angle implantation or driving of anchors along, against or within tissue surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2011Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Intrinsic Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Boyajian, Almir Velagic, Robert Kevin Moore, Christopher Tarapata, Jacob Einhorn, Gregory Lambrecht, Sean Kavanaugh
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Patent number: 8361155Abstract: Methods of providing soft tissue impaction using anchored implants are disclosed. In some embodiments, the soft tissue impaction provided by the anchored implants can facilitate intervertebral disc reconstruction. A method of soft tissue impaction includes displacing soft tissue from within a defective region of an anulus into a nuclear disc space of an intervertebral disc as it is driven within an outer surface of an adjacent vertebral body.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2010Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Intrinsic Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Lambrecht, Jacob Einhorn, Christopher Tarapata, Robert Kevin Moore, Sean Kavanaugh
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Patent number: 8323341Abstract: Methods of providing graft impaction using anchored implants are disclosed. In some embodiments, the graft impaction provided by the anchored implants can facilitate surgical spinal fusion procedures. The anchored implants provide increased strength and increased pull-out resistance. The anchored implants can be used in conjunction with various surgical vertebral fusion approaches or techniques, such as anterior, posterior, transforaminal, and/or extreme lateral interbody fusion.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2009Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Intrinsic Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Lambrecht, Jacob Einhorn, Christopher Tarapata, Robert Kevin Moore, Sean Kavanaugh
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Patent number: 8114082Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate generally to tissue anchors and methods of delivering same to the intervertebral disc or other sites within the body. In some embodiments, the anchors provide pull-out resistance, stability and/or maximize contact with tissue involving a minimum amount of penetration. In some embodiments, delivery methods are minimally invasive and include linear, lateral, and off-angle implantation or driving of anchors along, against or within tissue surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2009Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Intrinsic Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Boyajian, Almir Velagic, Robert Kevin Moore, Christopher Tarapata, Jacob Einhorn, Gregory Lambrecht, Sean Kavanaugh
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Publication number: 20110264227Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate generally to tissue anchors and methods of delivering same to the intervertebral disc or other sites within the body. In some embodiments, the anchors provide pull-out resistance, stability and/or maximize contact with tissue involving a minimum amount of penetration. In some embodiments, delivery methods are minimally invasive and include linear, lateral, and off-angle implantation or driving of anchors along, against or within tissue surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2011Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: INTRINSIC THERAPEUTICS, INC.Inventors: Thomas Boyajian, Almir Velagic, Robert Kevin Moore, Christopher Tarapata, Jacob Einhorn, Gregory Lambrecht, Sean Kavanaugh
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Publication number: 20110196492Abstract: Embodiments relate generally to tissue anchors and methods of delive?ng same to the intervertebral disc or other sites within the body. In some embodiments, the anchors provide increased pull-out resistance, stability and/or contact with tissue involving a reduced amount of penetration. In some embodiments, delivery methods are minimally invasive and can include linear, lateral, and off-angle implantation or driving of anchors along, against or within tissue surfaces. Several embodiments disclose anchors and ancho?ng systems that effectively reconstruct or augment vertebral endplate surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2008Publication date: August 11, 2011Applicant: INTRINSIC THERAPEUTICS, INC.Inventors: Gregory Lambrecht, Thomas Boyajian, Almir Velagic, Robert Kevin Moore, Christopher Tarapata, Jacob Einhorn, Sean Kavanaugh
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Patent number: 7972337Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate generally to tissue anchors and methods of delivering same to the intervertebral disc or other sites within the body. In some embodiments, the anchors provide pull-out resistance, stability and/or maximize contact with tissue involving a minimum amount of penetration. In some embodiments, delivery methods are minimally invasive and include linear, lateral, and off-angle implantation or driving of anchors along, against or within tissue surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2006Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Intrinsic Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Boyajian, Almir Velagic, Robert Kevin Moore, Christopher Tarapata, Jacob Einhorn, Gregory Lambrecht, Sean Kavanaugh
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Publication number: 20100121455Abstract: Methods of providing soft tissue impaction using anchored implants are disclosed. In some embodiments, the soft tissue impaction provided by the anchored implants can facilitate intervertebral disc reconstruction. A method of soft tissue impaction includes displacing soft tissue from within a defective region of an anulus into a nuclear disc space of an intervertebral disc as it is driven within an outer surface of an adjacent vertebral body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2010Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicant: Intrinsic Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Lambrecht, Jacob Einhorn, Christopher Tarapata, Robert Kevin Moore, Sean Kavanaugh
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Publication number: 20100114317Abstract: Methods of providing graft impaction using anchored implants are disclosed. In some embodiments, the graft impaction provided by the anchored implants can facilitate surgical spinal fusion procedures. The anchored implants provide increased strength and increased pull-out resistance. The anchored implants can be used in conjunction with various surgical vertebral fusion approaches or techniques, such as anterior, posterior, transforaminal, and/or extreme lateral interbody fusion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2009Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicant: Intrinsic Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Lambrecht, Jacob Einhorn, Christopher Tarapata, Robert Kevin Moore, Sean Kavanaugh
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Publication number: 20100049259Abstract: Embodiments relate generally to tissue anchors and methods of delivering same to the intervertebral disc or other sites within the body. In some embodiments, the anchors provide increased pull-out resistance, stability and/or contact with tissue involving a reduced amount of penetration. In some embodiments, delivery methods are minimally invasive and can include linear, lateral, and off-angle implantation or driving of anchors along, against or within tissue surfaces. Several embodiments disclose anchors and anchoring systems that effectively reconstruct or augment vertebral endplate surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2009Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: INTRINSIC THERAPEUTICS, INC.Inventors: Gregory Lambrecht, Thomas Boyajian, Almir Velagic, Robert Kevin Moore, Christopher Tarapata, Jacob Einhorn, Sean Kavanaugh
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Publication number: 20100004664Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate generally to tissue anchors and methods of delivering same to the intervertebral disc or other sites within the body. In some embodiments, the anchors provide pull-out resistance, stability and/or maximize contact with tissue involving a minimum amount of penetration. In some embodiments, delivery methods are minimally invasive and include linear, lateral, and off-angle implantation or driving of anchors along, against or within tissue surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2009Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicant: INTRINSIC THERAPEUTICS, INC.Inventors: Thomas Boyajian, Almir Velagic, Robert Kevin Moore, Christopher Tarapata, Jacob Einhorn, Gregory Lambrecht, Sean Kavanaugh
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Publication number: 20070260249Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate generally to tissue anchors and methods of delivering same to the intervertebral disc or other sites within the body. In some embodiments, the anchors provide pull-out resistance, stability and/or maximize contact with tissue involving a minimum amount of penetration. In some embodiments, delivery methods are minimally invasive and include linear, lateral, and off-angle implantation or driving of anchors along, against or within tissue surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2006Publication date: November 8, 2007Inventors: Thomas Boyajian, Almir Velagic, Robert Moore, Christopher Tarapata, Jacob Einhorn, Gregory Lambrecht, Sean Kavanaugh
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Publication number: 20070208374Abstract: An embolic protection device for use in a blood vessel when an interventional procedure is being performed in a stenosed or occluded region to capture any embolic material which may be created and released into the bloodstream during the procedure. The device includes a filtering assembly having a self-expanding strut assembly and a filter element attached thereto. In one embodiment, the filtering assembly is attached to the distal end of a guide wire and is deployed within the patient's vasculature as the guide wire is manipulated into the area of treatment. A restraining sheath placed over the filtering assembly in a coaxial arrangement maintains the filtering assembly in its collapsed position until it is ready to be deployed by the physician. Thereafter, the sheath can be retracted to expose the filtering assembly which will then self-expand within the patient's vasculature.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Applicant: ADVANCED CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: William Boyle, Andy Denison, Benjamin Huter, Scott Huter, Richard Stack, Kent Stalker, Christopher Tarapata, John Whitfield
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Patent number: 7217255Abstract: An embolic protection device for use in a blood vessel when an interventional procedure is being performed in a stenosed or occluded region to capture any embolic material which may be created and released into the bloodstream during the procedure. The device includes a filtering assembly having a self-expanding strut assembly and a filter element attached thereto. In one embodiment, the filtering assembly is attached to the distal end of a guide wire and is deployed within the patient's vasculature as the guide wire is manipulated into the area of treatment. A restraining sheath placed over the filtering assembly in a coaxial arrangement maintains the filtering assembly in its collapsed position until it is ready to be deployed by the physician. Thereafter, the sheath can be retracted to expose the filtering assembly which will then self-expand within the patient's vasculature.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2003Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: William J. Boyle, Andy E. Denison, Benjamin C. Huter, Scott J. Huter, Richard S. Stack, Kent C. B. Stalker, Christopher Tarapata, John D. Whitfield
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Patent number: 7097440Abstract: A system for enabling the insertion and removal of an embolic protection device, for capturing and retaining embolic debris which may be created during the performance of a therapeutic interventional procedure in a stenosed or occluded region of a blood vessel. The system, in an embodiment thereof, enables the device to be snap-fitted so as to engage the distal end of a guide wire, to be pre-formed for expansion thereof so as to seal off the inner surface of a blood vessel, to inhibit the forming of a gap therein, for inhibiting embolic material from passing therethrough, and to be foreshortened to enable insertion thereof through confined spaces. The system, in another embodiment thereof, enables expandable material to be formed into an expandable configuration of an embolic protection device for capturing embolic material, which is capable of sealing off the inner surface of the blood vessel.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2003Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: John E. Papp, Anuja Patel, Kent B. Stalker, Christopher Tarapata
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Publication number: 20040098032Abstract: A system for enabling the insertion and removal of an embolic protection device, for capturing and retaining embolic debris which may be created during the performance of a therapeutic interventional procedure in a stenosed or occluded region of a blood vessel. The system, in an embodiment thereof, enables the device to be snap-fitted so as to engage the distal end of a guide wire, to be pre-formed for expansion thereof so as to seal off the inner surface of a blood vessel, to inhibit the forming of a gap therein, for inhibiting embolic material from passing therethrough, and to be foreshortened to enable insertion thereof through confined spaces. The system, in another embodiment thereof, enables expandable material to be formed into an expandable configuration of an embolic protection device for capturing embolic material, which is capable of sealing off the inner surface of the blood vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2003Publication date: May 20, 2004Inventors: John E. Papp, Anuja Patel, Kent B. Stalker, Christopher Tarapata
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Patent number: 6656202Abstract: A system for enabling the insertion and removal of an embolic protection device, for capturing and retaining embolic debris which may be created during the performance of a therapeutic interventional procedure in a stenosed or occluded region of a blood vessel. The system, in an embodiment thereof, enables the device to be snap-fitted so as to engage the distal end of a guide wire, to be pre-formed for expansion thereof so as to seal off the inner surface of a blood vessel, to inhibit the forming of a gap therein, for inhibiting embolic material from passing therethrough, and to be foreshortened to enable insertion thereof through confined spaces. The system, in another embodiment thereof, enables expandable material to be formed into an expandable configuration of an embolic protection device for capturing embolic material, which is capable of sealing off the inner surface of the blood vessel.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2001Date of Patent: December 2, 2003Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: John E. Papp, Anuja Patel, Kent B. Stalker, Christopher Tarapata
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Publication number: 20030212361Abstract: An embolic protection device for use in a blood vessel when an interventional procedure is being performed in a stenosed or occluded region to capture any embolic material which may be created and released into the bloodstream during the procedure. The device includes a filtering assembly having a self-expanding strut assembly and a filter element attached thereto. In one embodiment, the filtering assembly is attached to the distal end of a guide wire and is deployed within the patient's vasculature as the guide wire is manipulated into the area of treatment. A restraining sheath placed over the filtering assembly in a coaxial arrangement maintains the filtering assembly in its collapsed position until it is ready to be deployed by the physician. Thereafter, the sheath can be retracted to expose the filtering assembly which will then self-expand within the patient's vasculature.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2003Publication date: November 13, 2003Inventors: William J. Boyle, Andy E. Denison, Benjamin C. Huter, Scott J. Huter, Richard S. Stack, Kent C.B. Stalker, Christopher Tarapata, John D. Whitfield
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Patent number: 6540722Abstract: An embolic protection device for use in a blood vessel when an interventional procedure is being performed in a stenosed or occluded region to capture any embolic material which may be created and released into the bloodstream during the procedure. The device includes a filtering assembly having a self-expanding strut assembly and a filter element attached thereto. In one embodiment, the filtering assembly is attached to the distal end of a guide wire and is deployed within the patient's vasculature as the guide wire is manipulated into the area of treatment. A restraining sheath placed over the filtering assembly in a coaxial arrangement maintains the filtering assembly in its collapsed position until it is ready to be deployed by the physician. Thereafter, the sheath can be retracted to expose the filtering assembly which will then self-expand within the patient's vasculature.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2000Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: William J. Boyle, Andy E. Denison, Benjamin C. Huter, Scott J. Huter, Richard S. Stack, Kent C. B. Stalker, Christopher Tarapata, John D. Whitfield