Patents by Inventor Ellis Garai
Ellis Garai 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: 20210236812Abstract: Electrical sensing/stimulation apparatuses for positioning at least one electrode within body tissue are provided. An electrical sensing/stimulation apparatus may comprise an elongate lead body having at least one internal lumen, at least one sensing/stimulation electrode, a deployable/retractable displacement member that moves or biases at least one electrode towards a prescribed direction by the user, a tissue attachment mechanism for affixing the distal segment of the device to body tissue, and an atraumatic distal lead body termination. In a retracted configuration, the attachment mechanism is positioned substantially within the distal segment of the lead body, and in the deployed configuration, the attachment mechanism extends from the axis of the lead body to engage body tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventors: Kurt SPARKS, Ellis GARAI, Aravind SWAMINATHAN, Laura DIETCH, Marcel SICOTTE
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Publication number: 20210212605Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide implantable glucose sensors enveloped by a biocompatible sleeve as well as methods for making and using them. In such sensors, the biocompatible sleeve is formed from selected materials that function to inhibit or avoid a foreign body response in patients that can be generated by implanted medical devices. Typical embodiments of the invention include an implantable glucose sensor used in the management of diabetes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2020Publication date: July 15, 2021Applicant: Medtronic MiniMed, inc.Inventors: Lawrence S. Ring, Ellis Garai
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Publication number: 20210186424Abstract: A system for a physiological characteristic sensor deployed with a sensor inserter includes an adhesive skin patch coupled to the physiological characteristic sensor. The adhesive patch is to couple the physiological characteristic sensor to an anatomy. The system also includes a gravity resistance system coupled to the adhesive patch and to be coupled to the sensor inserter. The gravity resistance system maintains the adhesive patch substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the sensor inserter prior to deployment of the physiological characteristic sensor and is removable from the adhesive patch by the sensor inserter upon deployment of the physiological characteristic sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Jasson Rodriguez, Ellis Garai, Ravi R. Deverkadra, Sara M. Voisin, Jacob E. Pananen
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Publication number: 20210186425Abstract: A system for a physiological characteristic sensor deployed with a sensor inserter includes an adhesive skin patch coupled to the physiological characteristic sensor. The adhesive patch is to couple the physiological characteristic sensor to an anatomy. The system includes a gravity resistance system coupled to the adhesive patch and to be coupled to the sensor inserter. The gravity resistance system maintains the adhesive patch substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the sensor inserter prior to deployment of the physiological characteristic sensor and the gravity resistance system is to be removable from the sensor inserter by the adhesive patch upon deployment of the physiological characteristic sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Jasson Rodriguez, Ellis Garai, Ravi R. Deverkadra, Sara M. Voisin, Jacob E. Pananen
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Patent number: 10953223Abstract: Electrical sensing/stimulation apparatuses for positioning at least one electrode within body tissue are provided. An electrical sensing/stimulation apparatus may comprise an elongate lead body having at least one internal lumen, at least one sensing/stimulation electrode, a deployable/retractable displacement member that moves or biases at least one electrode towards a prescribed direction by the user, a tissue attachment mechanism for affixing the distal segment of the device to body tissue, and an atraumatic distal lead body termination. In a retracted configuration, the attachment mechanism is positioned substantially within the distal segment of the lead body, and in the deployed configuration, the attachment mechanism extends from the axis of the lead body to engage body tissue.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: BioTrace Medical, Inc.Inventors: Kurt Sparks, Ellis Garai, Aravind Swaminathan, Laura Dietch, Marcel Sicotte
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Publication number: 20210024972Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide multilayer analyte sensors having elements and/or architectures that function to improve oxygen delivery to sensor enzymes in manner that enhances sensor function, as well as methods for making and using such sensors. Typical embodiments of the invention include glucose sensors used in the management of diabetes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.Inventors: Daniel E. Pesantez, Ashwin K. Rao, Ellis Garai, Rui Kong, Michael E. Miller
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Publication number: 20200384192Abstract: Fluid infusion systems such as a wearable fluid infusion device devoid of a user interface includes a housing configured to accommodate a fluid reservoir. The housing has a largest and a smallest dimension. The wearable fluid infusion device includes a drive system configured to be serially coupled to the fluid reservoir such that a dimension of the drive system and the fluid reservoir is less than or equal to the largest dimension. The wearable fluid infusion device includes a planar battery. The planar battery has a plurality of faces comprising one or more faces having a largest area, and the planar battery is situated such that the one or more faces are parallel to the largest dimension and the smallest dimension. The wearable fluid infusion device includes a means for coupling the housing with an adhesive plate configured to couple the wearable fluid infusion device to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2020Publication date: December 10, 2020Inventors: Ellis Garai, Adam S. Trock, Isabella Ella Miya, Xinrui Zhang
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Publication number: 20200384193Abstract: A fluid infusion system includes a housing configured to be adhesively coupled to an anatomy of a user, and a tube configured to extend from the housing for insertion into the anatomy of the user. The tube includes a plurality of conduits defined within the tube. The plurality of conduits include a fluid delivery conduit configured to facilitate a fluidic connection between a fluid source and the anatomy of the user, and one or more conduits configured to accommodate a plurality of electrodes for determining a physiological characteristic of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2020Publication date: December 10, 2020Inventors: Chia-Hung Chiu, Rebecca K. Gottlieb, Ellis Garai, Akhil Srinivasan, Andrea Varsavsky, Adam S. Trock, Ashwin K. Rao, Hsifu Wang, Daniel E. Pesantez, Isabella Ella Miya, Xinrui Zhang, Guruguhan Meenakshisundaram
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Publication number: 20200384197Abstract: A fluid infusion system includes a housing configured to be adhesively coupled to an anatomy of the user. The housing comprises a communication device configured to wirelessly communicate a physiological characteristic to a communication component of a fluid infusion device. The fluid infusion system includes a fluid flow path from the fluid infusion device into the anatomy of the user, and the fluid flow path is configured to extend from the housing for insertion into the anatomy of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2020Publication date: December 10, 2020Inventors: Chia-Hung Chiu, Rebecca K. Gottlieb, Ellis Garai, Akhil Srinivasan, Andrea Varsavsky, Adam S. Trock, Ashwin K. Rao, Hsifu Wang, Daniel E. Pesantez, Isabella Ella Miya, Xinrui Zhang, Guruguhan Meenakshisundaram
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Publication number: 20200337608Abstract: A sensor introducer for a physiological characteristic sensor assembly includes a sensor introducer body that includes an outer housing that defines an opening to receive the physiological characteristic sensor assembly and an inner housing surrounded by the outer housing. The sensor introducer includes a cradle movable relative to the inner housing from a first position to a second position to deploy the physiological characteristic sensor assembly. The cradle has a cradle flange to receive the physiological characteristic sensor assembly and a cradle body that receives a needle assembly. The cradle body includes at least one locking projection that engages the inner housing to inhibit the movement of the cradle relative to the inner housing in the first position and the at least one locking projection is movable relative to the inner housing to enable the cradle to move from the first position to the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2019Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Ellis Garai, David Choy, Robert C. Mucic, David C. Antonio
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Publication number: 20200337642Abstract: A physiological characteristic sensor assembly includes a flexible top housing including a needle port having a central opening, and a flexible lower housing defining a sensor bore through the lower housing, the sensor bore coaxial with the central opening of the needle port. The physiological characteristic sensor assembly also includes an electrical subsystem disposed between the top housing and the lower housing. The electrical subsystem includes a flexible printed circuit board having a sensor contact pad, a physiological characteristic sensor and an electrically conductive adhesive patch. The physiological characteristic sensor has a distal end that extends through the needle port and a proximal end that includes at least one electrical contact. The conductive adhesive patch electrically and physically couples the at least one electrical contact of the physiological characteristic sensor to the sensor contact pad of the flexible printed circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2019Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Ellis Garai, David Choy, David C. Antonio, Robert C. Mucic
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Publication number: 20200330007Abstract: Analyte sensor devices and methods for fabricating analyte sensor devices are presented here. In accordance with certain embodiments, a device for detecting and/or measuring one or more analytes in fluid includes a substrate and one or more analyte sensors disposed on and/or in the substrate. Further, the device includes an integrated circuit disposed on and/or in the substrate. The integrated circuit is electrically integrated with the analyte sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2019Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventors: Ellis Garai, Akhil Srinivasan, David C. Antonio
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Publication number: 20190217084Abstract: Electrical sensing/stimulation apparatuses for positioning at least one electrode within body tissue are provided. An electrical sensing/stimulation apparatus may comprise an elongate lead body having at least one internal lumen, at least one sensing/stimulation electrode, a deployable/retractable displacement member that moves or biases at least one electrode towards a prescribed direction by the user, a tissue attachment mechanism for affixing the distal segment of the device to body tissue, and an atraumatic distal lead body termination. In a retracted configuration, the attachment mechanism is positioned substantially within the distal segment of the lead body, and in the deployed configuration, the attachment mechanism extends from the axis of the lead body to engage body tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2019Publication date: July 18, 2019Inventors: Kurt SPARKS, Ellis GARAI, Aravind SWAMINATHAN, Laura DIETCH, Marcel SICOTTE
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Patent number: 10232170Abstract: Electrical sensing/stimulation apparatuses for positioning at least one electrode within body tissue are provided. An electrical sensing/stimulation apparatus may comprise an elongate lead body having at least one internal lumen, at least one sensing/stimulation electrode, a deployable/retractable displacement member that moves or biases at least one electrode towards a prescribed direction by the user, a tissue attachment mechanism for affixing the distal segment of the device to body tissue, and an atraumatic distal lead body termination. In a retracted configuration, the attachment mechanism is positioned substantially within the distal segment of the lead body, and in the deployed configuration, the attachment mechanism extends from the axis of the lead body to engage body tissue.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2017Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: BioTrace Medical, Inc.Inventors: Kurt Sparks, Ellis Garai, Aravind Swaminathan, Laura Dietch, Marcel Sicotte
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Publication number: 20190038893Abstract: A device for positioning an electrode in tissue includes: a lead body having a distal portion; an electrode array coupled to the lead distal portion; an anchoring element having an anchor tip and being operable in a first configuration in which the anchor tip is retracted within the lead and in a second configuration in which the anchor tip is extended outside the lead and configured to fixate within the tissue; and a displacement mechanism that is actuated to bias the electrode array or the anchoring element toward the tissue. A method for positioning an electrode in tissue includes: navigating, to the tissue, a lead with an electrode array, an anchoring element with a distal anchor tip, and a displacement mechanism; biasing the electrode array and anchoring element towards the tissue with the displacement mechanism; and deploying the anchoring element, and verifying fixation of the anchor tip within the tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYInventors: Ellis GARAI, Aravind SWAMINATHAN
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Patent number: 10124162Abstract: A device for positioning an electrode in tissue includes: a lead body having a distal portion; an electrode array coupled to the lead distal portion; an anchoring element having an anchor tip and being operable in a first configuration in which the anchor tip is retracted within the lead and in a second configuration in which the anchor tip is extended outside the lead and configured to fixate within the tissue; and a displacement mechanism that is actuated to bias the electrode array or the anchoring element toward the tissue. A method for positioning an electrode in tissue includes: navigating, to the tissue, a lead with an electrode array, an anchoring element with a distal anchor tip, and a displacement mechanism; biasing the electrode array and anchoring element towards the tissue with the displacement mechanism; and deploying the anchoring element, and verifying fixation of the anchor tip within the tissue.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2017Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYInventors: Ellis Garai, Aravind Swaminathan
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Publication number: 20180126156Abstract: Electrical sensing/stimulation apparatuses for positioning at least one electrode within body tissue are provided. An electrical sensing/stimulation apparatus may comprise an elongate lead body having at least one internal lumen, at least one sensing/stimulation electrode, a deployable/retractable displacement member that moves or biases at least one electrode towards a prescribed direction by the user, a tissue attachment mechanism for affixing the distal segment of the device to body tissue, and an atraumatic distal lead body termination. In a retracted configuration, the attachment mechanism is positioned substantially within the distal segment of the lead body, and in the deployed configuration, the attachment mechanism extends from the axis of the lead body to engage body tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Inventors: Kurt SPARKS, Ellis GARAI, Aravind SWAMINATHAN, Laura DIETCH, Marcel SICOTTE
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Patent number: 9937341Abstract: A lead is configured and arranged for brain stimulation. The lead includes a proximal end and a distal end. The proximal end includes a plurality of terminals disposed at the proximal end. The distal end has a non-circular transverse cross-sectional shape and includes a plurality of electrodes disposed at the distal end. A plurality of conductive wires electrically couple at least one of the plurality of electrodes to at least one of the plurality of terminals.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: Boston Scientific Neuromodulation CorporationInventors: Anne M. Pianca, Courtney C. Lane, James C. Makous, Andrew DiGiore, Ellis Garai
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Publication number: 20180085570Abstract: A device for positioning an electrode in tissue includes: a lead body having a distal portion; an electrode array coupled to the lead distal portion; an anchoring element having an anchor tip and being operable in a first configuration in which the anchor tip is retracted within the lead and in a second configuration in which the anchor tip is extended outside the lead and configured to fixate within the tissue; and a displacement mechanism that is actuated to bias the electrode array or the anchoring element toward the tissue. A method for positioning an electrode in tissue includes: navigating, to the tissue, a lead with an electrode array, an anchoring element with a distal anchor tip, and a displacement mechanism; biasing the electrode array and anchoring element towards the tissue with the displacement mechanism; and deploying the anchoring element, and verifying fixation of the anchor tip within the tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Applicant: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYInventors: Ellis GARAI, Aravind Swaminathan
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Patent number: 9872981Abstract: Electrical sensing/stimulation apparatuses for positioning at least one electrode within body tissue are provided. An electrical sensing/stimulation apparatus may comprise an elongate lead body having at least one internal lumen, at least one sensing/stimulation electrode, a deployable/retractable displacement member that moves or biases at least one electrode towards a prescribed direction by the user, a tissue attachment mechanism for affixing the distal segment of the device to body tissue, and an atraumatic distal lead body termination. In a retracted configuration, the attachment mechanism is positioned substantially within the distal segment of the lead body, and in the deployed configuration, the attachment mechanism extends from the axis of the lead body to engage body tissue.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: BIOTRACE MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Kurt Sparks, Ellis Garai, Aravind Swaminathan, Laura Dietch, Marcel Sicotte