Patents by Inventor Darin Buxbaum

Darin Buxbaum 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).

  • DEVICES AND METHODS TO DELIVER, RETAIN AND REMOVE A SEPARATING DEVICE IN AN INTUSSUSCEPTED HOLLOW ORGAN
    Publication number: 20120245504
    Abstract: The present invention is an improved separating device for providing the malabsorptive component of a minimally invasive weight reduction system. This device may be a sleeve, liner, or tubular sheath that alters absorption of compositions through walls of hollow organs (stomach, intestines). The improvement involves better long-term retention through the ability of the device to engage with the interserosal fibrotic tissue formed in an intussusception. The separating device may be a distal extension of a retaining member that is directly engaged with and retained by intussuscepted tissue. Intussusception shrinks a hollow organ to provide a volume reducing restrictive component of a weight reduction system. Securing the separating device to an intussusception avoids retention problems of reference art devices as interserosal fibrosis helps secure the device. Also provided are an apparatus for retaining the device, a device and method for delivering the separating device, and a method for removing it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: HOURGLASS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ivan Tzvetanov, Fan Zhang, Darin Buxbaum, Charles Hsu, Michael Reo
  • DEVICES AND METHODS TO DELIVER, RETAIN AND REMOVE A SEPARATING DEVICE IN AN INTUSSUSCEPTED HOLLOW ORGAN
    Publication number: 20110245854
    Abstract: The present invention is an improved separating device for providing the malabsorptive component of a minimally invasive weight reduction system. This device may be a sleeve, liner, or tubular sheath that alters absorption of compositions through walls of hollow organs (stomach, intestines). The improvement involves better long-term retention through the ability of the device to engage with the interserosal fibrotic tissue formed in an intussusception. The separating device may be a distal extension of a retaining member that is directly engaged with and retained by intussuscepted tissue. Intussusception shrinks a hollow organ to provide a volume reducing restrictive component of a weight reduction system. Securing the separating device to an intussusception avoids retention problems of reference art devices as interserosal fibrosis helps secure the device. Also provided are an apparatus for retaining the device, a device and method for delivering the separating device, and a method for removing it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: HOURGLASS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Darin Buxbaum, Charles Hsu, Ivan Tzvetanov, Fan Zhang, Michael Reo