Patents by Inventor Gaillard R. Nolan
Gaillard R. Nolan 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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Patent number: 9592396Abstract: The invention is directed to a method of bonding a hermetically sealed electronics package to an electrode or a flexible circuit and the resulting electronics package that is suitable for implantation in living tissue, for a retinal or cortical electrode array to enable restoration of sight to certain non-sighted individuals. The hermetically sealed electronics package is directly bonded to the flex circuit or electrode by electroplating a biocompatible material, such as platinum or gold, effectively forming a plated rivet-shaped connection, which bonds the flex circuit to the electronics package. The resulting electronic device is biocompatible and is suitable for long-term implantation in living tissue.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2012Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.Inventors: Robert J. Greenberg, Alfred E. Mann, Neil Talbot, Jerry Ok, Gaillard R. Nolan, Dau Min Zhou
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Patent number: 9295581Abstract: The present invention is an improved medical tack. The tack of the present invention includes attachment points at each end where at least one of the attachment points is moveable, varying the effective length of the tack. Varying the length of the medical tack adapts the tack for use with tissue of different thickness.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2006Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.Inventors: James S. Little, Gaillard R. Nolan, Neil H. Talbot, Robert J. Greenberg
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Publication number: 20120131794Abstract: The invention is directed to a method of bonding a hermetically sealed electronics package to an electrode or a flexible circuit and the resulting electronics package that is suitable for implantation in living tissue, for a retinal or cortical electrode array to enable restoration of sight to certain non-sighted individuals. The hermetically sealed electronics package is directly bonded to the flex circuit or electrode by electroplating a biocompatible material, such as platinum or gold, effectively forming a plated rivet-shaped connection, which bonds the flex circuit to the electronics package. The resulting electronic device is biocompatible and is suitable for long-term implantation in living tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2012Publication date: May 31, 2012Inventors: Robert J. Greenberg, Alfred E. Mann, Neil Talbot, Jerry Ok, Gaillard R. Nolan, Dau Min Zhou
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Patent number: 8121697Abstract: The invention is directed to a method of bonding a hermetically sealed electronics package to an electrode or a flexible circuit and the resulting electronics package that is suitable for implantation in living tissue, for a retinal or cortical electrode array to enable restoration of sight to certain non-sighted individuals. The hermetically sealed electronics package is directly bonded to the flex circuit or electrode by electroplating a biocompatible material, such as platinum or gold, effectively forming a plated rivet-shaped connection, which bonds the flex circuit to the electronics package. The resulting electronic device is biocompatible and is suitable for long-term implantation in living tissue.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2010Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.Inventors: Robert J. Greenberg, Alfred E. Mann, Neil Talbot, Jerry Ok, Gaillard R. Nolan, Dau Min Zhou
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Publication number: 20110213443Abstract: The invention is directed to a method of bonding a hermetically sealed electronics package to an electrode or a flexible circuit and the resulting electronics package that is suitable for implantation in living tissue, for a retinal or cortical electrode array to enable restoration of sight to certain non-sighted individuals. The hermetically sealed electronics package is directly bonded to the flex circuit or electrode by electroplating a biocompatible material, such as platinum or gold, effectively forming a plated rivet-shaped connection, which bonds the flex circuit to the electronics package. The resulting electronic device is biocompatible and is suitable for long-term implantation in living tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2010Publication date: September 1, 2011Inventors: Robert J. Greenberg, Alfred E. Mann, Neil Talbot, Jerry Ok, Gaillard R. Nolan, Dau Min Zhou
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Patent number: 7813796Abstract: The invention is directed to a method of bonding a hermetically sealed electronics package to an electrode or a flexible circuit and the resulting electronics package, that is suitable for implantation in living tissue, such as for a retinal or cortical electrode array to enable restoration of sight to certain non-sighted individuals. The hermetically sealed electronics package is directly bonded to the flex circuit or electrode by electroplating a biocompatible material, such as platinum or gold, effectively forming a plated rivet-shaped connection, which bonds the flex circuit to the electronics package. The resulting electronic device is biocompatible and is suitable for long-term implantation in living tissue.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2006Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.Inventors: Robert J. Greenberg, Alfred E. Mann, Neil Talbot, Jerry Ok, Gaillard R. Nolan, Dau Min Zhou
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Publication number: 20090118805Abstract: In a visual prosthesis electrodes stimulate retinal tissue to induce the perception of light to a user implanted with the prosthesis. The prosthesis must have a return, or common, electrode to make a complete circuit with the retinal tissue. To avoid stimulating tissue with the return electrode, it is advantageous if the electrode is large. The invention involver a flexible circuit electrode array comprising a polymer base layer, metal traces deposited on said polymer base layer, including electrodes suitable to stimulate neural tissue a polymer top layer deposited on said polymer base layer and said metal traces, and a return electrode separate from said stimulating electrodes. The flexible circuit electrode array comprises a secondary coil for receiving visual data; an electronics package electrically coupled to said receiving coil, and a plurality of stimulating electrode electrically coupled to said electronics package.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2008Publication date: May 7, 2009Inventors: Robert J. Greenberg, Jordan Matthew Neysmith, Neil Hamilton Talbot, James Singleton Little, Kelly H. McClure, Brian V. Mech, Rongqing Dai, David Daomin Zhou, Gaillard R. Nolan
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Publication number: 20030069603Abstract: The present invention is an improved medical tack. The tack of the present invention includes attachment points at each end where at least one of the attachment points is moveable, varying the effective length of the tack. Varying the length of the medical tack adapts the tack for use with tissue of different thickness.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2001Publication date: April 10, 2003Inventors: James S. Little, Gaillard R. Nolan, Neil H. Talbot, Robert J. Greenberg
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Patent number: 4817600Abstract: A blood clot filtration device, for implantation percutaneously, for preventing movement of blood clots within a blood vessel. The device has a head and a plurality of legs extending therefrom. The legs include a first linear leg portion of predetermined length emanating distally from the head generally parallel to the axis of the device; a second multi-angled leg portion of relatively greater length extending generally outwardly from the distal end of the first linear leg portion at an acute angle to the axis, to form, with other second leg portions, a conical aspect, the second leg portion having a series of discrete linear segments arrayed generally tangent to a cone defined by the second leg portions of the set of legs; and a hook portion at the distal end of each the leg extending outwardly, away from the axis in a manner for engaging the blood vessel to fix the position of the device therewithin.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 1987Date of Patent: April 4, 1989Assignee: Medi-Tech, Inc.Inventors: James K. Herms, Gaillard R. Nolan, Jonathan McGrath, Mark J Tolkoff
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Patent number: 4195665Abstract: The fluid valve essentially comprises a support structure designed rotatably to support an inlet within a certain oscillatory ambit and stationarily supporting a plurality of outlets within the oscillatory ambit, and operative means for effecting fluid-tight communication seriatim between the inlet and one of the outlets. The inlet is preferably a blunt needle provided with a side port and each of the outlets comprises an inverted "Y"-shaped member formed of an entrance portion and a pair of leg portions. The needle is designed to be thrust into the entrance portion, so that its side port establishes fluid-tight communication with one of the leg portions. Means are provided, including a pneumatic cylinder, for effecting relative motion between the inlet and the outlets. There is also a means for normally closing off all the entrance portions of the outlets except the selected one, and only during the entry of the blunt needle therein.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 1978Date of Patent: April 1, 1980Assignee: Instrumentation Laboratory, Inc.Inventors: Gaillard R. Nolan, William E. Flynn