Patents by Inventor Eamonn Hobbs
Eamonn Hobbs 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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Publication number: 20190262580Abstract: An indwelling venous catheter and method capable of destroying undesirable cellular growth is provided. The catheter includes a shaft having at least one lumen and adapted to be placed inside a vein for long term use. A plurality of electrodes are positioned near a distal section of the shaft and are adapted to receive from a voltage generator a plurality of electrical pulses in an amount sufficient to cause destruction of cells in the undesirable cellular growth that have grown around the shaft. In one aspect of the invention, a probe is configured to be removably insertable into the at least one lumen and the electrodes are positioned near the distal section of the probe.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2019Publication date: August 29, 2019Applicant: AngioDynamics, Inc.Inventors: Eamonn Hobbs, William C. Hamilton, JR.
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Publication number: 20190183561Abstract: A system for destruction the cellular membranes of unwanted or cancerous tissue without denaturing the intra-cellular contents of the cells comprising the tissue, comprising a treatment probe configured to apply radio-frequency energy to a target tissue followed an injection of immunologic adjuvant drugs into the treatment area and an electric pulse generator, and, optionally, a cryomachine operatively coupled to said treatment probe. The treatment optionally comprises a cryoablative pre-cycle to pre-stress the target tissue, thereby reducing the amount of radio-frequency energy needed to achieve tumor membrane destruction, but without damaging the lymphatic or vascular antigen or tumor drainage systems through which the subsequent antitumor effects are enhanced.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Inventors: Eamonn Hobbs, Gary M. Onik, James A. Miessau, Jon H. Condra
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Patent number: 9440046Abstract: The method of treating varicose veins and other vascular diseases provides sclerosant fluid through a catheter into the body vessel to be treated. The catheter has a lumen and a plurality of sidewall exits. The sclerosant fluid is provided under sufficient pressure so that it comes out of each exit as a jet of fluid with sufficient velocity to impinge on the vessel wall substantially orthogonal to the wall and thus minimize dilution of the sclerosant fluid and optimize coverage. A movable sheath on the catheter permits selecting a portion of the exits to be uncovered and thus create an infusion zone for the jets of sclerosant fluid which approximately match a desired treatment zone.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2005Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Angiodynamics, Inc.Inventors: Eamonn Hobbs, William M. Appling
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Publication number: 20160022957Abstract: An indwelling venous catheter and method capable of destroying undesirable cellular growth is provided. The catheter includes a shaft having at least one lumen and adapted to be placed inside a vein for long term use. A plurality of electrodes are positioned near a distal section of the shaft and are adapted to receive from a voltage generator a plurality of electrical pulses in an amount sufficient to cause destruction of cells in the undesirable cellular growth that have grown around the shaft. In one aspect of the invention, a probe is configured to be removably insertable into the at least one lumen and the electrodes are positioned near the distal section of the probe.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicant: AngioDynamics, Inc.Inventors: Eamonn Hobbs, William C. Hamilton, JR.
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Publication number: 20140358134Abstract: An endovascular laser treatment device designed to be used with an optical fiber to treat venous diseases such as varicose veins is provided. The device includes a spacer that positions the distal end of the optical fiber away from the inner wall of the blood vessel during delivery of laser energy to provide an even distribution of thermal energy around the vessel, thereby avoiding vessel perforation and incomplete vessel collapse.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Inventors: William M. Appling, Eamonn Hobbs
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Patent number: 8840606Abstract: An endovascular laser treatment device designed to be used with an optical fiber to treat venous diseases such as varicose veins is provided. The device includes a spacer that positions the distal end of the optical fiber away from the inner wall of the blood vessel during delivery of laser energy to provide an even distribution of thermal energy around the vessel, thereby avoiding vessel perforation and incomplete vessel collapse.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2013Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: AngioDynamics, Inc.Inventors: William M. Appling, Eamonn Hobbs
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Publication number: 20130261614Abstract: An endovascular laser treatment device designed to be used with an optical fiber to treat venous diseases such as varicose veins is provided. The device includes a spacer that positions the distal end of the optical fiber away from the inner wall of the blood vessel during delivery of laser energy to provide an even distribution of thermal energy around the vessel, thereby avoiding vessel perforation and incomplete vessel collapse.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Inventors: William M. Appling, Eamonn Hobbs
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Patent number: 8425501Abstract: An endovascular laser treatment device designed to be used with an optical fiber to treat venous diseases such as varicose veins is provided. The device includes a expandable separator that positions the distal end of the optical fiber away from the inner wall of the blood vessel during delivery of laser energy to provide an even distribution of thermal energy around the vessel, thereby avoiding vessel perforation and incomplete vessel collapse.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2009Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: AngioDynamics, Inc.Inventors: William M. Appling, Eamonn Hobbs
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Publication number: 20090264875Abstract: An endovascular laser treatment device designed to be used with an optical fiber to treat venous diseases such as varicose veins is provided. The device includes a expandable separator that positions the distal end of the optical fiber away from the inner wall of the blood vessel during delivery of laser energy to provide an even distribution of thermal energy around the vessel, thereby avoiding vessel perforation and incomplete vessel collapse.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2009Publication date: October 22, 2009Inventors: William M. Appling, Eamonn Hobbs
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Patent number: 7559329Abstract: An endovascular laser treatment device designed to be used with an optical fiber to treat venous diseases such as varicose veins is provided. The device includes a spacer that positions the distal end of the optical fiber away from the inner wall of the blood vessel during delivery of laser energy to provide an even distribution of thermal energy around the vessel, thereby avoiding vessel perforation and incomplete vessel collapse.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2007Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: Angiodynamics, Inc.Inventors: William M. Appling, Eamonn Hobbs
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Publication number: 20080045886Abstract: A multiple tube catheter, such as a hemo-dialysis catheter, has first and second tubes which are attached to each other over a zone by one or more longitudinally extending wires which joins the two tubes over that zone. When a catheter is implanted in the patient, the attached zone is within the patient so that the catheter cannot be removed or advanced. When the catheter is to be removed, the longitudinally extending wire or wires are pulled proximally out of the tubes involved so that the two tubes can be separated and individually removed. A flexible separating prong within the patient and proximal of the zone holds the tubes apart to further assure that the catheter cannot be moved.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2007Publication date: February 21, 2008Inventors: Eamonn Hobbs, William Appling, Angelo Tarricone, Theodore Beyer
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Publication number: 20080015559Abstract: An endovascular laser treatment device designed to be used with an optical fiber to treat venous diseases such as varicose veins is provided. The device includes a spacer that positions the distal end of the optical fiber away from the inner wall of the blood vessel during delivery of laser energy to provide an even distribution of thermal energy around the vessel, thereby avoiding vessel perforation and incomplete vessel collapse.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2007Publication date: January 17, 2008Inventors: WILLIAM APPLING, Eamonn Hobbs
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Patent number: 7273478Abstract: An endovascular laser treatment device designed to be used with an optical fiber to treat venous diseases such as varicose veins is provided. The device includes a spacer that positions the distal end of the optical fiber away from the inner wall of the blood vessel during delivery of laser energy to provide an even distribution of thermal energy around the vessel, thereby avoiding vessel perforation and incomplete vessel collapse.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2003Date of Patent: September 25, 2007Assignee: AngioDynamics, Inc.Inventors: William M. Appling, Eamonn Hobbs
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Patent number: 7163533Abstract: A catheter device for treating a vascular disease is provided. The catheter device includes an energy delivery device such as an optical fiber for delivering laser energy and a catheter. The catheter lumen receives the optical fiber and a fluid such as an anesthetic agent or vasoconstricting agent. According to the invention, a plurality of exits are formed in the sidewall of the catheter. The exits are in communication with the catheter lumen and administer the fluid into the blood vessel. By administering the fluid from within the catheter lumen, the present catheter device eliminates the need to make numerous external punctures to deliver fluid injections.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2003Date of Patent: January 16, 2007Assignee: AngioDynamics, Inc.Inventors: Eamonn Hobbs, William M. Appling
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Publication number: 20060095015Abstract: The method of treating varicose veins and other vascular diseases provides sclerosant fluid through a catheter into the body vessel to be treated. The catheter has a lumen and a plurality of sidewall exits. The sclerosant fluid is provided under sufficient pressure so that it comes out of each exit as a jet of fluid with sufficient velocity to impinge on the vessel wall substantially orthogonal to the wall and thus minimize dilution of the sclerosant fluid and optimize coverage. A movable sheath on the catheter permits selecting a portion of the exits to be uncovered and thus create an infusion zone for the jets of sclerosant fluid which approximately match a desired treatment zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2005Publication date: May 4, 2006Inventors: Eamonn Hobbs, William Appling
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Patent number: 6953453Abstract: A device cooperating with a pump for guiding a contrast medium from a source thereof to a catheter for delivery to a patient's vascular system. The device comprises a dual check valve, a tubular member, an in-line check valve and a three-port stopcock. The dual check valve has an inlet port connectable to the source of contrast medium, an inlet-outlet port connectable to the pump, and an outlet port coupled to the tubular member. The in-line check valve is connected to the tubular member at a point spaced from the dual check valve for preventing fluid flow towards the dual check valve. The stopcock connected at a first port to the in-line check valve, a second port of the stopcock being operatively connectable to the catheter. Using this device, medical personnel infuses contrast medium into the patient from the source without having to disconnect any element from the device during the infusion process.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2001Date of Patent: October 11, 2005Assignee: AngioDynamics, Inc.Inventors: Daniel K. Recinella, Eamonn Hobbs
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Publication number: 20040010248Abstract: An endovascular laser treatment device designed to be used with an optical fiber to treat venous diseases such as varicose veins is provided. The device includes a spacer that positions the distal end of the optical fiber away from the inner wall of the blood vessel during delivery of laser energy to provide an even distribution of thermal energy around the vessel, thereby avoiding vessel perforation and incomplete vessel collapse.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2003Publication date: January 15, 2004Inventors: William M. Appling, Eamonn Hobbs
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Publication number: 20030191460Abstract: A catheter device for treating a vascular disease is provided. The catheter device includes an energy delivery device such as an optical fiber for delivering laser energy and a catheter. The catheter lumen receives the optical fiber and a fluid such as an anesthetic agent or vasoconstricting agent. According to the invention, a plurality of exits are formed in the sidewall of the catheter. The exits are in communication with the catheter lumen and administer the fluid into the blood vessel. By administering the fluid from within the catheter lumen, the present catheter device eliminates the need to make numerous external punctures to deliver fluid injections.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2003Publication date: October 9, 2003Applicant: AngioDynamics, Inc.Inventors: Eamonn Hobbs, Willam M. Appling
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Publication number: 20010044618Abstract: A device cooperating with a pump for guiding a contrast medium from a source thereof to a catheter for delivery to a patient's vascular system The device comprises a dual check valve, a tubular member, an in-line check valve and a three-port stopcock. The dual check valve has an inlet port connectable to the source of contrast medium, an inlet-outlet port connectable to the pump, and an outlet port coupled to the tubular member. The in-line check valve is connected to the tubular member at a point spaced from the dual check valve for preventing fluid flow towards the dual check valve. The stopcock connected at a first port to the in-line check valve, a second port of the stopcock being operatively connectable to the catheter. Using this device, medical personnel infuses contrast medium into the patient from the source without having to disconnect any element from the device during the infusion process.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2001Publication date: November 22, 2001Inventors: Daniel K. Recinella, Eamonn Hobbs
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Patent number: RE38074Abstract: A device cooperating with a pump for guiding a contrast medium from a source thereof to a catheter for delivery to a patient's vascular system. The device comprises a dual check valve, a tubular member, an in-line check valve and a three-port stopcock. The dual check valve has an inlet port connectable to the source of contrast medium, an inlet-outlet port connectable to the pump, and an outlet port coupled to the tubular member. The in-line check valve is connected to the tubular member at a point spaced from the dual check valve for preventing fluid flow towards the dual check valve. The stopcock connected at a first port to the in-line check valve, a second port of the stopcock being operatively connectable to the catheter. Using this device, medical personnel infuses contrast medium into the patient from the source without having to disconnect any element from the device during the infusion process.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2002Date of Patent: April 8, 2003Assignee: AngioDynamics, Inc.Inventors: Daniel K. Recinella, Eamonn Hobbs