Patents by Inventor Edward E. Shaw

Edward E. Shaw 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).

  • Patent number: 12642951
    Abstract: Various concepts relate to treatment systems for medical devices delivered into patients in medical procedures. The treatment system may include a proximal valve configured to receive the endoluminal device, an optional distal valve configured to receive the endoluminal device, and a treatment chamber configured to receive a portion of the endoluminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: James L. Goepfrich, Thomas E. Kariniemi, William D. Montgomery, Edward E. Shaw
  • Publication number: 20260083563
    Abstract: An implantable medical device comprising a first frame component. The first frame component including a first set of elongate elements configured to conform to an anatomy of a patient. The implantable medical device also comprising a second frame component including a second set of elongate elements configured to conform to an anatomy of a patient. The first frame component and the second frame component being discrete and separate from one another. The implantable medical device also comprising a conduit portion arranged between the first frame component and the second frame component. The conduit portion including a membrane connecting the first frame component and the second frame component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2025
    Publication date: March 26, 2026
    Inventors: Daniel S. Cole, Tom R. McDaniel, Edward E. Shaw, Benjamin A. Smith, Jerome Adam-Cote, Ian R. Berve, Barrett S. Hutto, James A. McCrea
  • Publication number: 20260053624
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems, and methods that include device for chordae tendineae repair. The device may include a flexible cord having a first end and a second end; and a helical wire configured to attach to one of the first end and the second end of the flexible cord and anchor the flexible cord to a leaflet of a heart valve; and a capture device having a channel and configured to clamp the leaflet of the heart valve and deliver the flexible cord through the channel to anchor the helical wire to the leaflet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2025
    Publication date: February 26, 2026
    Inventors: Benjamin M. Trapp, James L. Goepfrich, Brandon C. Hedberg, Edward E. Shaw, Jason D. Hemmer, Paul D. Goodman
  • Patent number: 12544210
    Abstract: Various aspects of the instant disclosure relate to flow devices including filters and occluders for modifying flow in body conduits such as blood vessels. In some examples, such devices include a support structure and a flow media coupled to the support structure. The medical device generally further includes one or more capture features. In some examples, the capture features are coupled to the support structure at one or more of the proximal and distal ends of the support structure. In various examples, the capture features facilitate retrograde and antegrade deployment of the medical device and retrograde and antegrade capture of the medical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2026
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: William D. Montgomery, Edward E. Shaw
  • Patent number: 12514707
    Abstract: An implantable medical device comprising a first frame component. The first frame component including a first set of elongate elements configured to conform to an anatomy of a patient. The implantable medical device also comprising a second frame component including a second set of elongate elements configured to conform to an anatomy of a patient. The first frame component and the second frame component being discrete and separate from one another. The implantable medical device also comprising a conduit portion arranged between the first frame component and the second frame component. The conduit portion including a membrane connecting the first frame component and the second frame component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2026
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel S. Cole, Tom R. McDaniel, Edward E. Shaw, Benjamin A. Smith, Jerome Adam-Cote, Ian R. Berve, Barrett S. Hutto, James A. McCrea
  • Patent number: 12485009
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems, and methods that include device for chordae tendineae repair. The device may include a flexible cord having a first end and a second end; and a helical wire configured to attach to one of the first end and the second end of the flexible cord and anchor the flexible cord to a leaflet of a heart valve; and a capture device having a channel and configured to clamp the leaflet of the heart valve and deliver the flexible cord through the channel to anchor the helical wire to the leaflet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2025
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin M. Trapp, James L. Goepfrich, Brandon C. Hedberg, Edward E. Shaw, Jason D. Hemmer, Paul D. Goodman
  • Patent number: 12465478
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward an embolic filter system. The embolic filter system generally includes a filter and an elongated element. In some examples, the elongate element extends to a position distal to a proximal end of the filter and operates to protect against medical devices entangling with the filter. In some examples, the elongate element is soft and compliant and operates with a hemostatic seal to provide for a hemostatic seal within a lumen of the elongate element while maintaining the lumen as a working lumen through which medical devices can be passed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2025
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: William D. Montgomery, Edward E. Shaw
  • Publication number: 20250255713
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward an embolic filter system. The embolic filter system generally includes a filter and an elongated element. In some examples, the elongate element extends to a position distal to a proximal end of the filter and operates to protect against medical devices entangling with the filter. In some examples, the elongate element is soft and compliant and operates with a hemostatic seal to provide for a hemostatic seal within a lumen of the elongate element while maintaining the lumen as a working lumen through which medical devices can be passed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2025
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Inventors: William D. Montgomery, Edward E. Shaw
  • Publication number: 20250135160
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems, and methods that may include an inflow or outflow cannula apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Steven M. Alston, JR., Scott M. Bryson, Daniel Dominguez, James L. Goepfrich, Joshua C. Haarer, Edward E. Shaw
  • Publication number: 20250065085
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure comprise occlusion and drug delivery devices and methods. One aspect of the disclosure comprises a drug delivery device comprising an inner expansion member and an outer drug delivery component. Another aspect of the disclosure comprises bioabsorbable, lumen-occluding implants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Edward H. Cully, Jeffrey B. Duncan, Douglas S. Paget, Rachel Radspinner, Edward E. Shaw, Michael J. Vonesh
  • Publication number: 20240407909
    Abstract: A device for treating disease along a main vessel and at least one branch vessel extending from the main vessel includes a branch member for deployment in the branch vessel, the branch member having a branch lumen; and a main body for deployment in the main vessel. The main body has a generally tubular wall extending generally longitudinally between opposite first and second ends. The wall has an internal surface defining a main lumen and an opposite outer surface. The wall has a recessed portion that is recessed relative to the outer surface of the wall and positioned between the first and second ends of the main body. The main body has an opening formed in the recessed portion of the wall for receiving the branch member therethrough such that the branch lumen is in fluid communication with the main lumen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Michael D. Dake, Joshua J. Lovekamp, Michael C. Nilson, Edward E. Shaw
  • Publication number: 20240408379
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems, and methods that may include an inflow or outflow cannula apparatus. A support structure of the cannula may include an elongate element having a rectangular cross-section, the elongate element being coupled to the exterior surface of a conduit of the cannula by a second graft component. A cannula may include a first stent element configured to facilitate folding of a first anchor portion toward an exterior surface of the conduit and adjacent a second stent element and the second stent element may be configured to facilitate folding of a second anchor portion toward the exterior surface of the conduit and adjacent the first stent element in a delivery configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Scott M. Bryson, Daniel Dominguez, James L. Goepfrich, Edward E. Shaw
  • Publication number: 20240408378
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems, and methods that may include an inflow or outflow cannula apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Scott M. Bryson, Daniel Dominguez, James L. Goepfrich, Joshua C. Haarer, Edward E. Shaw
  • Patent number: 12161823
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure comprise occlusion and drug delivery devices and methods. One aspect of the disclosure comprises a drug delivery device comprising an inner expansion member and an outer drug delivery component. Another aspect of the disclosure comprises bioabsorbable, lumen-occluding implants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward H. Cully, Jeffrey B. Duncan, Douglas S. Paget, Rachel Radspinner, Edward E. Shaw, Michael J. Vonesh
  • Publication number: 20240374153
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses. systems. and methods that include a catheter-delivered implantable hemodynamic monitor (IHM) implant system with an implantable sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin A. Gill, Min-Hsuan Lin, Rebecca L. Maryn, David J. Minor, Edward E. Shaw, Benjamin M. Trapp
  • Publication number: 20240374140
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to implantable medical devices configured to be implanted within a heart with anchor arrangements that reduce or eliminate signal transmission interference of the sensor. The implantable medical devices may include a sensor configured to sense physiological parameters of the heart and a housing comprising a transmitter and an antenna. An anchoring device formed by one or more wound wires including an engagement component is arranged around at least a portion of the housing a first frame component, a second frame component. The first frame component, the second frame component, or the first frame component and the second frame component comprise a first end separated from a second end to form a discontinuous loop and are formed from a conductive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: David J. Minor, Edward E. Shaw, Benjamin M. Trapp, Nader Najafi
  • Publication number: 20240374377
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems, and methods that include an anchoring implantable medical device configured to anchor an implantable medical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin A. Gill, Min-Hsuan Lin, Rebecca L. Maryn, David J. Minor, Edward E. Shaw, Benjamin M. Trapp
  • Patent number: 12090041
    Abstract: A device for treating disease along a main vessel and at least one branch vessel extending from the main vessel includes a branch member for deployment in the branch vessel, the branch member having a branch lumen; and a main body for deployment in the main vessel. The main body has a generally tubular wall extending generally longitudinally between opposite first and second ends. The wall has an internal surface defining a main lumen and an opposite outer surface. The wall has a recessed portion that is recessed relative to the outer surface of the wall and positioned between the first and second ends of the main body. The main body has an opening formed in the recessed portion of the wall for receiving the branch member therethrough such that the branch lumen is in fluid communication with the main lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Dake, Joshua J. Lovekamp, Michael C. Nilson, Edward E. Shaw
  • Publication number: 20240245407
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, methods, and systems as relating to occlusion. In certain instances, the apparatuses, methods, and systems may include a device for placement in vessels, appendages, and openings in a body. The device may include a unitary frame having a face portion that includes a center frame portion a plurality of elongate members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Charles J. Center, Aaron D. Fox, Nathan C. Korey, Edward E. Shaw, Nicholas S. Webster, Brett J. Wham, Roark N. Wolfe, Peter J. Zeller
  • Publication number: 20240198093
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to apparatuses, systems, and methods for percutaneous delivery of neurostimulation arrays. In an embodiment, neurostimulation lead comprises a body portion configured to transition from a collapsed delivery configuration to an expanded deployed configuration. In aspects, the expanded deployed configuration is wider than the collapsed delivery configuration. Additionally, in some embodiments, transitioning the neurostimulation lead from the collapsed delivery configuration to the expanded deployed configuration comprises unfolding or unwrapping motions that are not perpendicular to the central axis of the delivery system. In certain embodiments, the neurostimulation lead includes an array of electrodes arranged on the body portion, wherein the array of electrodes is electrically coupled to an implantable pulse generator (IPG).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Stuart E. Broyles, Edward H. Cully, Jeffrey B. Duncan, Mark D. Edmundson, Nathan L. Friedman, Edward E. Shaw, Christopher J. Vecchio