Patents by Inventor Daniel J. Horn
Daniel J. Horn 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: 8133250Abstract: The present invention provides medical devices comprising nanocomposite materials. By utilizing nanocomposites in the production thereof, the inventive medical devices can be produced with various advantageous properties. Methods of producing the inventive medical devices are also provided. Inasmuch as the inventive devices are expected to provide certain advantages in their use, there is also provided a method of medical care including methods of treatment or diagnosis, wherein the inventive devices are brought into therapeutic contact with a body to be treated or diagnosed thereby.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2009Date of Patent: March 13, 2012Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Edward Parsonage, Daniel J. Horn, John J. Chen, Paul J. Miller, Douglas A. Devens, Jr., Jan Weber
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Publication number: 20120046608Abstract: The invention relates to medical balloons, and methods of modifying said balloons by forming a void pattern in their exterior surfaces and filling the voids with a material, such as a fiber or a nanomaterial (e.g., nanotubes, such as carbon nanotubes) and a matrix material, e.g., a polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2011Publication date: February 23, 2012Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Daniel J. Horn, John Jianhua Chen, Jan Weber, Thomas J. Holman
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Publication number: 20120018090Abstract: Composite fiber reinforced balloons for medical devices are prepared by applying a web of fibers to the exterior of a preformed underlayer balloon, encasing the web with a matrix material to form an assembly, and inserting the assembly into a preformed outer layer balloon to form the composite balloon.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2011Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Daniel J. Horn, John J. Chen, Ying Xiong, Joe Khammoungkhoune, John Blix, Aaron Khieu
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Patent number: 8048028Abstract: The invention relates to medical balloons, and methods of modifying said balloons by forming a void pattern in their exterior surfaces and filling the voids with a material, such as a fiber or a nanomaterial (e.g., nanotubes, such as carbon nanotubes) and a matrix material, e.g., a polymer.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2005Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Daniel J. Horn, John Jianhua Chen, Jan Weber, Thomas J. Holman
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Patent number: 8034280Abstract: Catheters, balloons, and methods of manufacturing balloons for balloon catheters using lasers are disclosed. A catheter with a shaft sized for use with a 0.014 inch guide wire includes a polymeric balloon having a body portion with an inflated outer diameter of more than 6 millimeters. An inflatable balloon includes an inflated outer diameter to inner waist diameter ratio of 12.5 to 1. An inflatable polymeric balloon that has a body portion with two regions that have different molecular orientations is also provided. A method of processing an elongate polymeric material includes heating a portion of the polymeric material with a laser while longitudinally stretching the portion of the polymeric material. A method of manufacturing a balloon includes heating and longitudinally stretching a first and second portion of an elongate polymeric tube to form first and second end portion. The remaining body portion is radially expanded to form the balloon.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2009Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Afsar Ali, Daniel J. Horn, Jan Weber, Scott Schewe
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Patent number: 7943221Abstract: Composite fiber reinforced balloons for medical devices are prepared by applying a web of fibers to the exterior of a preformed underlayer balloon which has been pressurized and expanded to a predetermined pressure or above ambient size, encasing the web with a matrix material to form an assembly with the fiber web bonded to the underlayer balloon. The assembly may have an outer layer formed by inserting the assembly into a preformed outer layer balloon. The overlayer balloon can be bonded to the assembly during a heat set step.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2006Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Daniel J. Horn, John J. Chen, Aaron Khieu
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Publication number: 20100217186Abstract: Articles such as catheters or balloons that have an ester-linked poly(ester-block-amide) substrate have a lubricious hydrogel coating which suppresses particle development under accelerated aging conditions. A polymerizable coating composition is applied to the substrate without application of an intervening primer layer and cured. The coating composition comprises an uncrosslinked polyvinylpyrrolidone polymer that is free of attached photoinitiator groups and at least one polyfunctional ethylenically unsaturated monomer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2010Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Irina Nazarova, Jeffrey S. Lindquist, Daniel J. Horn
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Publication number: 20100207291Abstract: A method of producing a tubular member which includes providing at least one micro-extruder configured to extrude at least one material and providing a surface configured to accept the material extruded from the micro-extruder.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2009Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Tracee Eidenschink, James Feng, Karl A. Jagger, Daniel Gregorich, Leonard B. Richardson, Timothy J. Mickley, James Lee Shippy, Daniel J. Horn, John J. Chen, Thomas J. Holman, David McMorrow, Jon Kolbrek, Horng-Ban Lin
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Publication number: 20100114018Abstract: Balloon systems for treating bifurcated lumens include desirable burst and folding characteristics. In some cases, the balloon systems can be formed by varying the wall thickness of a balloon parison.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2009Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: RICHARD NODDIN, DAN QUILLIN, DANIEL J. HORN, YING XIONG, RICHARD GOODIN, THE THOMAS TRINH TRAN, YOUSEF F. ALKHATIB, STEVE HOFF, RICHARD DUNN, THOMAS HOLMAN, ZACH TEGELS
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Publication number: 20100094213Abstract: Composite fiber reinforced balloons for medical devices prepared by applying a web of fibers to the exterior of a preformed underlying balloon and encasing the web with a matrix material to form a composite balloon. The fiber web is applied to at least the cone portion of the underlying balloon form. Either the cone portion of the underlying balloon form, or the web fibers applied to said cone portion, or both, have a friction-enhancing material coated thereon.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2009Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Daniel J. Horn, Jeffrey S. Lindquist, Irina Nazarova, Scott Schewe, David W. Meister, John J. Chen
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Publication number: 20100057001Abstract: An expandable medical balloon including an inner layer formed of a poly(ether-block-amide) copolymer and an outer layer formed of a polyamide, the expandable medical balloon having a burst strength of greater than 50,000 psi, and to methods of making and using the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2008Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: John J. Chen, Daniel J. Horn
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Publication number: 20100010440Abstract: The present invention provides medical devices comprising nanocomposite materials. By utilizing nanocomposites in the production thereof, the inventive medical devices can be produced with various advantageous properties. Methods of producing the inventive medical devices are also provided. Inasmuch as the inventive devices are expected to provide certain advantages in their use, there is also provided a method of medical care including methods of treatment or diagnosis, wherein the inventive devices are brought into therapeutic contact with a body to be treated or diagnosed thereby.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2009Publication date: January 14, 2010Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Edward Parsonage, Daniel J. Horn, John J. Chen, Paul J. Miller, Douglas A. Devens, JR., Jan Weber
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Publication number: 20090318862Abstract: Catheters, balloons, and methods of manufacturing balloons for balloon catheters using lasers are disclosed. A catheter with a shaft sized for use with a 0.014 inch guide wire includes a polymeric balloon having a body portion with an inflated outer diameter of more than 6 millimeters. An inflatable balloon includes an inflated outer diameter to inner waist diameter ratio of 12.5 to 1. An inflatable polymeric balloon that has a body portion with two regions that have different molecular orientations is also provided. A method of processing an elongate polymeric material includes heating a portion of the polymeric material with a laser while longitudinally stretching the portion of the polymeric material. A method of manufacturing a balloon includes heating and longitudinally stretching a first and second portion of an elongate polymeric tube to form first and second end portion. The remaining body portion is radially expanded to form the balloon.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2009Publication date: December 24, 2009Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: AFSAR ALI, DANIEL J. HORN, JAN WEBER, SCOTT SCHEWE
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Patent number: 7635510Abstract: Composite fiber reinforced balloons for medical devices prepared by applying a web of fibers to the exterior of a preformed underlying balloon and encasing the web with a matrix material to form a composite balloon. The fiber web is applied to at least the cone portion of the underlying balloon form. Either the cone portion of the underlying balloon form, or the web fibers applied to said cone portion, or both, have a friction-enhancing material coated thereon.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2004Date of Patent: December 22, 2009Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Daniel J. Horn, Jeffrey S. Lindquist, Irina Nazarova, Scott Schewe, David W. Meister, John J. Chen
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Patent number: 7591831Abstract: The present invention provides medical devices comprising nanocomposite materials. By utilizing nanocomposites in the production thereof, the inventive medical devices can be produced with various advantageous properties. Methods of producing the inventive medical devices are also provided. Inasmuch as the inventive devices are expected to provide certain advantages in their use, there is also provide a method of medical care including methods of treatment or diagnosis, wherein the inventive devices are brought into therapeutic contact with a body to be treated or diagnosed thereby.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2002Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Edward Parsonage, Daniel J. Horn, John J. Chen, Paul J. Miller, Douglas A. Devens, Jr., Jan Weber
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Publication number: 20090149948Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, implantable and insertable medical devices are provided which contain one or more particle-containing regions that comprise silicate particles and carbon particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2008Publication date: June 11, 2009Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: LILIANA ATANASOSKA, JAN WEBER, John Jianhua Chen, Daniel J. Horn
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Publication number: 20080275426Abstract: A method of making a flexible, durable catheter tip is achieved by providing a catheter tip, and in some embodiments, applying heat energy only to the distal portion of a catheter tip. In other embodiments, the method includes ablating a portion of the outer diameter of the proximal region material. In at least one embodiment, the method includes manufacturing a catheter tip with a layer of a harder material disposed about a first layer of a relatively softer material and then ablating at least a portion of the harder material. In some embodiments, the method includes dipping at least a portion of the distal region of the catheter tip into a chemical bath. In some embodiments, the method includes providing a catheter tip made of a tip material, adding a curable adhesive to at least a portion of the distal region, and then applying heat energy to cure the curable adhesive.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2007Publication date: November 6, 2008Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Thomas J. HOLMAN, Tracee Eidenschink, John J. Chen, Daniel J. Horn
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Publication number: 20080124495Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of improving balloon refoldability by molding a preformed balloon into a larger, predetermined shape at a lower temperature and higher pressure than that with which the balloon was originally formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2006Publication date: May 29, 2008Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Daniel J. Horn, John J. Chen, Calvin Fenn
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Publication number: 20070267128Abstract: Composite fiber reinforced balloons for medical devices are prepared by applying a web of fibers to the exterior of a preformed underlayer balloon which has been pressurized and expanded to a predetermined pressure or above ambient size, encasing the web with a matrix material to form an assembly with the fiber web bonded to the underlayer balloon. The assembly may have an outer layer formed by inserting the assembly into a preformed outer layer balloon. The overlayer balloon can be bonded to the assembly during a heat set step.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2006Publication date: November 22, 2007Inventors: Daniel J. Horn, John J. Chen, Aaron Khieu
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Patent number: 6989025Abstract: A tubular member comprises a balloon having a body portion positioned between a first end and a second end. The body portion is constructed from an extruded matrix material and at least one stripe of a second extruded material. The at least one stripe is at least partially disposed within the matrix material. The proximal end and the distal end are constructed from the matrix material.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2002Date of Patent: January 24, 2006Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Robert Burgmeier, Daniel J. Horn