Patents by Inventor Daniel D. Sims

Daniel D. Sims 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).

  • Multi-Lumen Sheath Central Venous Catheter With Vena Cava Filter Apparatus and Method of Using Same
    Publication number: 20250177112
    Abstract: A combined multi-lumen sheath with a wire body and a filter. The filter may be removably coupled to the multi-lumen sheath within a filter capsule for temporary placement and retrieval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2024
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: Mermaid Medical Vascular ApS
    Inventors: Jeremy H. Morgan, Daniel D. Sims, Jeffrey N. Steinmetz
  • FILTER APPARATUSES AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20240415629
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to an apparatus and/or method involving an asymmetrical frame connected to an extension arm, and a filter having opposing surface areas terminating around a perimeter of the filter. The filter is configured with the frame and the extension arm to conform one of the opposing surface areas to an inner sidewall of a tubular structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: J. Eric Goslau, Daniel D. Sims,
  • Filter apparatuses and methods
    Patent number: 12070382
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to an apparatus and/or method involving an asymmetrical frame connected to an extension arm, and a filter having opposing surface areas terminating around a perimeter of the filter. The filter is configured with the frame and the extension arm to conform one of the opposing surface areas to an inner sidewall of a tubular structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Transverse Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Eric Goslau, Daniel D. Sims
  • Multi-lumen sheath central venous catheter with vena cava filter apparatus and method of using same
    Patent number: 12053365
    Abstract: A combined sheath with a wire body and a filter. The filter may be removably coupled to the sheath within a filter capsule for temporary placement and retrieval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Mermaid Medical Vascular APS
    Inventors: Jeremy Morgan, Daniel D. Sims, Jeffrey N. Steinmetz
  • FILTER APPARATUSES AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20220331084
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to an apparatus and/or method involving an asymmetrical frame connected to an extension arm, and a filter having opposing surface areas terminating around a perimeter of the filter. The filter is configured with the frame and the extension arm to conform one of the opposing surface areas to an inner sidewall of a tubular structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: J. Eric Goslau, Daniel D. Sims,
  • MULTI-LUMEN SHEATH CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER WITH VENA CAVA FILTER APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USING SAME
    Publication number: 20210093433
    Abstract: A combined sheath with a wire body and a filter. The filter may be removably coupled to the sheath within a filter capsule for temporary placement and retrieval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Jeremy N. Morgan, Daniel D. Sims, Jeffrey N. Steinmetz
  • Multi-lumen sheath central venous catheter with vena cava filter apparatus and method of using same
    Patent number: 10799330
    Abstract: A combined multi-lumen sheath with a wire body and a filter. The filter may be removably coupled to the multi-lumen sheath within a filter capsule for temporary placement and retrieval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Mermaid Medical Vascular ApS
    Inventors: Jeremy Morgan, Daniel D. Sims, Jeffrey N. Steinmetz
  • RAPID EXCHANGE VENA CAVA FILTER CATHETER AND METHOD OF USE
    Publication number: 20190201180
    Abstract: A rapid exchange catheter having a vena cava filter and a method for percutaneous delivery of the rapid exchange vena cava filter for use in indicated medical situations in which prophylactic or therapeutic protection against pulmonary embolism are indicated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Jeremy Morgan, Jeffrey N. Steinmetz, Daniel D. Sims, Rogelio I. Guerra, Elijah Atkinson
  • Rapid exchange vena cava filter catheter and method of use
    Patent number: 10154893
    Abstract: A rapid exchange catheter having a vena cava filter and a method for percutaneous delivery of the rapid exchange vena cava filter for use in indicated medical situations in which prophylactic or therapeutic protection against pulmonary embolism are indicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Bio2 Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Morgan, Jeffrey N. Steinmetz, Daniel D. Sims, Rogelio Guerra, Elijah Atkinson
  • Catheter for in vivo imaging
    Patent number: 9622706
    Abstract: A catheter for in vivo imaging comprising a monolithic outer sheath terminating in a monolithic atraumatic tip having a guidewire lumen. The catheter for in vivo imaging comprising a rotary drive shaft that passes through a central lumen of the monolithic outer sheath to impart rotary motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Volcano Corporation
    Inventors: Larry Dick, Thomas E. Milner, Daniel D. Sims
  • RAPID EXCHANGE VENA CAVA FILTER CATHETER AND METHOD OF USE
    Publication number: 20160220345
    Abstract: A rapid exchange catheter having a vena cava filter and a method for percutaneous delivery of the rapid exchange vena cava filter for use in indicated medical situations in which prophylactic or therapeutic protection against pulmonary embolism are indicated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Jeremy Morgan, Jeffrey N. Steinmetz, Daniel D. Sims, Rogelio Guerra, Elijah Atkinson
  • Methods of making medical devices
    Patent number: 9375330
    Abstract: 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: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daniel D. Sims, Jeffrey N. Steinmetz, Conor P. Mullens, Alexander Parker Wood, Christopher E. Banas
  • IVC filter catheter with imaging modality
    Patent number: 9039729
    Abstract: A combined multi-lumen central access catheter and an embolic filter, further comprising an imaging modality to facilitate intravascular imaging of the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: BIO2 MEDICAL, INC.
    Inventors: Luis F. Angel, Jeffrey N. Steinmetz, Daniel D. Sims
  • IVC filter catheter with imaging modality
    Patent number: 9039728
    Abstract: A combined multi-lumen central access catheter and an embolic filter, further comprising an imaging modality to facilitate intravascular imaging of the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: BIO2 MEDICAL, INC.
    Inventors: Luis F. Angel, Jeffrey N. Steinmetz, Daniel D. Sims
  • STENT-GRAFT WITH PROXIMAL AND DISTAL ATTACHMENT, DELIVERY CATHETER AND METHODS OF MAKING SAME
    Publication number: 20140343658
    Abstract: A metallic or pseudometallic covered stent in which the stent component and the cover component are each fabricated of biocompatible metallic or pseudometallic materials, in which the cover and the stent are joined by at least one juncture at each of a proximal and distal end of the stent and the cover. A method of joining the stent and the cover is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Palmaz Scientific, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel D. Sims, Jeffrey N. Steinmetz, Conor P. Mullens
  • METHODS OF MAKING MEDICAL DEVICES
    Publication number: 20140216637
    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: February 11, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Palmaz Scientific, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel D. Sims, Jeffrey N. Steinmetz, Conor P. Mullens, Andrew Parker Wood, Christopher E. Banas
  • Stent-graft with proximal and distal attachment, delivery catheter and methods of making same
    Patent number: 8732935
    Abstract: A metallic or pseudometallic covered stent in which the stent component and the cover component are each fabricated of biocompatible metallic or pseudometallic materials, in which the cover and the stent are joined by at least one juncture at each of a proximal and distal end of the stent and the cover. A method of joining the stent and the cover is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Palmaz Scientific, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel D. Sims, Jeffrey N. Steinmetz, Conor P. Mullens
  • Methods of making medical devices
    Patent number: 8647700
    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: August 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daniel D. Sims, Jeffrey N. Steinmetz, Conor P. Mullens, Andrew Parker Wood, Christopher E. Banas
  • MULTI-LUMEN SHEATH CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER WITH VENA CAVA FILTER APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USING SAME
    Publication number: 20140018840
    Abstract: A combined multi-lumen sheath with a wire body and a filter. The filter may be removably coupled to the multi-lumen sheath within a filter capsule for temporary placement and retrieval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: BiO2 Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Morgan, Daniel D. Sims, Jeffrey N. Steinmetz
  • METHODS OF MAKING MEDICAL DEVICES
    Publication number: 20120325774
    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: August 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Palmaz Scientific, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel D. Sims, Jeffrey N. STEINMETZ, Conor P. MULLENS, Andrew Parker WOOD, Christopher E. BANAS