Patents by Inventor Daniel Tomaschko

Daniel Tomaschko 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).

  • Closure device, system, and method
    Patent number: 8075576
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to devices, systems and methods for use with cardiac defects. A closure device includes an elongate body with a first actuator segment and a second actuator segment associated with the elongate body that can be bent into a first predetermined position and then to a second predetermined position where the distal end and the proximal end are more closely positioned than when in the first predetermined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Tracee Eidenschink, Karl A. Jagger, Daniel Tomaschko
  • Occluding device and method
    Publication number: 20080051830
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to devices and methods for use with cardiac defects, more particularly, the present disclosure relates to a device including a frame defining a lumen, where the frame expands from a first configuration to a second configuration larger than the first configuration. The device also includes an anchoring member extending from the frame to secure the frame while in the second configuration and a plug portion of the frame to occlude at least a portion of the lumen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Inventors: Tracee Eidenschink, Karl A. Jagger, Daniel Tomaschko
  • Closure device, system, and method
    Publication number: 20080051829
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to devices, systems and methods for use with cardiac defects. A closure device includes an elongate body with a first actuator segment and a second actuator segment associated with the elongate body that can be bent into a first predetermined position and then to a second predetermined position where the distal end and the proximal end are more closely positioned than when in the first predetermined position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Inventors: Tracee Eidenschink, Karl A. Jagger, Daniel Tomaschko
  • Medical balloons
    Publication number: 20070244501
    Abstract: Described herein are medical balloons which contain one or more material regions that are configured to cause the balloons to preferentially fold into predetermined orientations upon deflation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Inventors: Daniel Horn, John Jianhua Chen, John Blix, Jan Weber, Angela Volk, Richard Gunderson, Daniel Tomaschko, Scott Schewe
  • Balloon Cones and Waists Thinning Methodology
    Publication number: 20070213762
    Abstract: Medical balloons and balloon preforms are made by methods which include the step of selectively removing material from the proximal and/or distal ends of a segment. In the case of a thermoplastic material characterized by one or more glass transition temperatures, the segment may optionally be maintained at a temperature below the glass transition temperature of the segment during the material removal step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Tomaschko, Daniel Horn, Xiao Zhang, Nao Lee
  • Micromachined medical devices
    Publication number: 20070135763
    Abstract: Medical devices that include micromachined hypotubes or that have themselves been micromachined can provide advantages in flexibility, strength and other desirable properties. Examples of such medical devices may include catheters such as guide catheters and balloon catheters. Such devices may also include dual shaft medical devices in which an outer shaft is reversibly lockable onto an inner shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Inventors: Frank Musbach, Tracee Eidenschink, Richard Gunderson, Richard Olson, Daniel Tomaschko, Richard Goodin, Todd Turnlund, Jason Lenz
  • Balloon catheter tip design
    Publication number: 20050131445
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to distal tip designs for catheter, wherein distal tip material is positioned about an inner shaft. The distal tip material may also be used as a tie layer for thermally bonding two incompatible materials together, such as a waist portion of a balloon to the inner shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventors: Thomas Holman, Daniel Tomaschko, Leo Klisch, Richard Olson, Joseph Lyver, Richard Dunn, David Griswold, Nie Tang, Lixiao Wang
  • Catheter including a unibody distal guidewire port and method of manufacture
    Publication number: 20050049552
    Abstract: Methods and devices incorporating a guidewire entry port subassembly for use in rapid exchange catheters. The use of a subassembly allows for stronger quality control and simpler fabrication of a rapid exchange device. In several embodiments, methods of making a molded guidewire entry port using a mold, often in conjunction with one or more mandrels, are disclosed. Several device embodiments include a separate molded guidewire port as well as molded guidewire ports which are attached, during a molding step, to segments of a catheter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Inventors: Mark Holzapfel, Martin Plantenberg, Daniel Tomaschko, Richard Olson