Patents by Inventor James E. Mitchell

James E. Mitchell 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).

  • Publication number: 20240398594
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing protection of at least one tissue layer of a medical device or implant during crimping of the medical device or implant. In various embodiments, an implant tissue protection tool may include an outer portion configured to surround one or more outer segments of at least one tissue layer of a medical device to be implanted into a body of a subject and at least one protrusion (which may be affixed to a surface of the outer portion) configured to minimize or prevent occurrence (or likelihood of occurrence) of the at least one tissue layer (in some cases, leaflet material, or the like) of the medical device passing through at least one opening defined by a frame structure of the medical device during crimping of the medical device by a crimping device in preparation for implantation into the body of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Victoria Ung, James E. Mitchell, Philip C. Leung, Justin R. Peterson, Priyanka Ganesh, Nirav P. Patel, Karl L. Olney, Veronica Woen, Kshitija P. Garde
  • Patent number: 12064343
    Abstract: A transcatheter valve prosthesis includes a stent having a crimped configuration for delivery within a vasculature and an expanded configuration for deployment within a native heart valve. The stent includes at least one axial frame member. The transcatheter valve prosthesis includes at least one outflow marker positioned on the at least one axial frame member. The transcatheter heart valve prosthesis may include inflow markers positioned within the inflow portion of the stent. The transcatheter heart valve prosthesis may include two outflow markers disposed on axial frame members and being circumferentially and longitudinally offset from each other. The markers are configured to aid in axial and circumferential aligned of the transcatheter heart valve prosthesis within a native heart valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin R. Peterson, Victoria Ung, James E. Mitchell, Syed J. Askari, Shahnaz Javani, Genevieve E. Farrar, Stuart E. Kari, Mark Casley, Ethan Korngold
  • Patent number: 12064362
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing protection of at least one tissue layer of a medical device or implant during crimping of the medical device or implant. In various embodiments, an implant tissue protection tool may include an outer portion configured to surround one or more outer segments of at least one tissue layer of a medical device to be implanted into a body of a subject and at least one protrusion (which may be affixed to a surface of the outer portion) configured to minimize or prevent occurrence (or likelihood of occurrence) of the at least one tissue layer (in some cases, leaflet material, or the like) of the medical device passing through at least one opening defined by a frame structure of the medical device during crimping of the medical device by a crimping device in preparation for implantation into the body of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Victoria Ung, James E. Mitchell, Kshitija P. Garde, Philip C. Leung, Justin R. Peterson, Priyanka Ganesh, Nirav P. Patel, Karl L. Olney, Veronica Woen
  • Publication number: 20220273476
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing protection of at least one tissue layer of a medical device or implant during crimping of the medical device or implant. In various embodiments, an implant tissue protection tool may include an outer portion configured to surround one or more outer segments of at least one tissue layer of a medical device to be implanted into a body of a subject and at least one protrusion (which may be affixed to a surface of the outer portion) configured to minimize or prevent occurrence (or likelihood of occurrence) of the at least one tissue layer (in some cases, leaflet material, or the like) of the medical device passing through at least one opening defined by a frame structure of the medical device during crimping of the medical device by a crimping device in preparation for implantation into the body of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Victoria Ung, James E. Mitchell, Kshitija P. Garde, Philip C. Leung, Justin R. Peterson, Priyanka Ganesh, Nirav P. Patel, Karl L. Olney, Veronica Woen
  • Patent number: 8828474
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for loading a therapeutic substance or drug within a lumenal space of a hollow wire having a plurality of side openings along a length thereof that forms a hollow drug-eluting stent with a plurality of side drug delivery openings. Loading a drug within the lumenal space of the hollow stent includes a drug filling step, in which the drug is mixed with a solvent or dispersion medium. The lumenal space may be filled with the drug solution or suspension in a reverse fill process and/or a forward fill process. After the drug filling step, a solvent or dispersion medium extracting step is performed to extract the solvent or dispersion medium from within the lumenal space such that only the drug remains within the hollow stent. A stent cleaning step may be performed to an exterior surface of the hollow stent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Medtronic Vascular, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Mitchell, William Heaton, Dishuan Chu, Terry Morgan, Justin Peterson, Joseph Traina
  • Patent number: 8423207
    Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods for displaying navigation performance based flight path deviation information during the final approach segment to a runway and during landing of non-precision flight modes are provided. Improved graphical depictions of navigation performance based flight path deviation information provide pilots and flight crew members with clear, concise displays of the dynamic relationship between ANP and RNP, mode and aspect of flight and related procedures, intersecting flight paths, and current actual flight path deviation from a predefined flight path during the final approach segment to a runway and during landing. For example, an enhanced IAN display may include NPS-type deviation scales to show RNP/ANP relationships and predetermined RNP markers to alert the pilots and flight crew members that the FMC has transitioned from an NPS display for RNAV (LNAV/VNAV) flight procedures to an enhanced IAN display for a non-precision (non-xLS) approach and/or landing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Robert B. Davis, Daniel J. Boorman, L. Kirk Gagnon, William L. Goodman, Alan R. Jacobsen, William A. Miller, James E. Mitchell, Victor A. Riley, William F. Royce, William D. Tafs
  • Publication number: 20120070562
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for loading a therapeutic substance or drug within a lumenal space of a hollow wire having a plurality of side openings along a length thereof that forms a hollow drug-eluting stent with a plurality of side drug delivery openings. Loading a drug within the lumenal space of the hollow stent includes a drug filling step, in which the drug is mixed with a solvent or dispersion medium. The lumenal space may be filled with the drug solution or suspension in a reverse fill process and/or a forward fill process. After the drug filling step, a solvent or dispersion medium extracting step is performed to extract the solvent or dispersion medium from within the lumenal space such that only the drug remains within the hollow stent. A stent cleaning step may be performed to an exterior surface of the hollow stent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: Medtronic Vascular, Inc.
    Inventors: Salvador Avelar, James E. Mitchell
  • Publication number: 20120070563
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for loading a therapeutic substance or drug within a lumenal space of a hollow wire having a plurality of side openings along a length thereof that forms a hollow drug-eluting stent with a plurality of side drug delivery openings. Loading a drug within the lumenal space of the hollow stent includes a drug filling step, in which the drug is mixed with a solvent or dispersion medium. The lumenal space may be filled with the drug solution or suspension in a reverse fill process and/or a forward fill process. After the drug filling step, a solvent or dispersion medium extracting step is performed to extract the solvent or dispersion medium from within the lumenal space such that only the drug remains within the hollow stent. A stent cleaning step may be performed to an exterior surface of the hollow stent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: Medtronic Vascular, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Mitchell, William Heaton, Dishuan Chu, Terry Morgan, Justin Peterson, Joseph Traina
  • Publication number: 20110313600
    Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods for displaying navigation performance based flight path deviation information during the final approach segment to a runway and during landing of non-precision flight modes are provided. Improved graphical depictions of navigation performance based flight path deviation information provide pilots and flight crew members with clear, concise displays of the dynamic relationship between ANP and RNP, mode and aspect of flight and related procedures, intersecting flight paths, and current actual flight path deviation from a predefined flight path during the final approach segment to a runway and during landing. For example, an enhanced IAN display may include NPS-type deviation scales to show RNP/ANP relationships and predetermined RNP markers to alert the pilots and flight crew members that the FMC has transitioned from an NPS display for RNAV (LNAV/VNAV) flight procedures to an enhanced IAN display for a non-precision (non-xLS) approach and/or landing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Robert B. Davis, Daniel J. Boorman, Kirk L. Gagnon, William L. Goodman, Alan R. Jacobsen, William A. Miller, James E. Mitchell, Victor A. Riley, William F. Royce, William D. Tafs
  • Patent number: 8027756
    Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods for displaying navigation performance based flight path deviation information during the final approach segment to a runway and during landing of non-precision flight modes are provided. Improved graphical depictions of navigation performance based flight path deviation information provide pilots and flight crew members with clear, concise displays of the dynamic relationship between ANP and RNP, mode and aspect of flight and related procedures, intersecting flight paths, and current actual flight path deviation from a predefined flight path during the final approach segment to a runway and during landing. For example, an enhanced IAN display may include NPS-type deviation scales to show RNP/ANP relationships and predetermined RNP markers to alert the pilots and flight crew members that the FMC has transitioned from an NPS display for RNAV (LNAV/VNAV) flight procedures to an enhanced IAN display for a non-precision (non-xLS) approach and/or landing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Robert B. Davis, Daniel J. Boorman, L. Kirk Gagnon, William L. Goodman, Alan R. Jacobsen, William A. Miller, James E. Mitchell, Victor A. Riley, William F. Royce, William D. Tafs
  • Publication number: 20110067778
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for loading a therapeutic substance or drug within a lumenal space of a hollow wire having a plurality of side openings along a length thereof that forms a hollow drug-eluting stent with a plurality of side drug delivery openings. Loading a drug within the lumenal space of the hollow stent includes a drug filling step, in which the drug is mixed with a solvent or dispersion medium. The lumenal space may be filled with the drug solution or suspension in a reverse fill process and/or a forward fill process. After the drug filling step, a solvent or dispersion medium extracting step is performed to extract the solvent or dispersion medium from within the lumenal space such that only the drug remains within the hollow stent. A stent cleaning step may be performed to an exterior surface of the hollow stent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: Medtronic Vascular, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Mitchell, Dishuan Chu, Justin Peterson, Joseph Traina
  • Publication number: 20110070357
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for loading a therapeutic substance or drug within a lumenal space of a hollow wire having a plurality of side openings along a length thereof that forms a hollow drug-eluting stent with a plurality of side drug delivery openings. Loading a drug within the lumenal space of the hollow stent includes a drug filling step, in which the drug is mixed with a solvent or dispersion medium. The lumenal space may be filled with the drug solution or suspension in a reverse fill process and/or a forward fill process. After the drug filling step, a solvent or dispersion medium extracting step is performed to extract the solvent or dispersion medium from within the lumenal space such that only the drug remains within the hollow stent. A stent cleaning step may be performed to an exterior surface of the hollow stent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: Medtronic Vascular, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Mitchell, Justin Peterson, Dishuan Chu, Joseph Traina, Salvador Avelar, Michele Silver
  • Publication number: 20080140270
    Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods for displaying navigation performance based flight path deviation information during the final approach segment to a runway and during landing of non-precision flight modes are provided. Improved graphical depictions of navigation performance based flight path deviation information provide pilots and flight crew members with clear, concise displays of the dynamic relationship between ANP and RNP, mode and aspect of flight and related procedures, intersecting flight paths, and current actual flight path deviation from a predefined flight path during the final approach segment to a runway and during landing. For example, an enhanced IAN display may include NPS-type deviation scales to show RNP/ANP relationships and predetermined RNP markers to alert the pilots and flight crew members that the FMC has transitioned from an NPS display for RNAV (LNAV/VNAV) flight procedures to an enhanced IAN display for a non-precision (non-xLS) approach and/or landing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventors: Robert B. Davis, Daniel J. Boorman, L. Kirk Gagnon, William L. Goodman, Alan R. Jacobsen, William A. Miller, James E. Mitchell, Victor A. Riley, William F. Royce, William D. Tafs
  • Patent number: 7143803
    Abstract: An ventilated gate for use with an overhead garage door. The ventilated gate is an added feature to a conventional overhead garage door and provides ventilation to a garage where such ventilation is unavailable through a conventional overhead garage door. The ventilated gate is in a flat position on a driveway in front of the garage door when not in use and in a raised position between the driveway and the bottom of the garage door when in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Inventor: James E. Mitchell
  • Patent number: 6562298
    Abstract: The embodiments disclosed relate to determination of an item of interest in a sample. One embodiment relates to a structure which comprises a process path. The process path comprises a process lane including a process step performance lane where a process step is performed, and a process step avoidance lane where the process step is avoided. A first prime mover is operatively connected with the process path for moving a container holding the sample along the process path. A first pipetting system is operatively associated with the process path for introducing the sample to the container. A second pipetting system is operatively associated with the process path for introducing a reagent to the container. A device is operatively connected with the process path and is selectively engagable with the container for mixing the sample and the reagent in the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: Abbott Laboratories
    Inventors: David C. Arnquist, Grady Barnes, III, Richard D. Button, Chadwick M. Dunn, Richard C. East, Jr., Patrick P. Fritchie, Charles M. Galitz, Gregory E. Gardner, Cass J. Grandone, Robert C. Gray, James T. Holen, Robert P. Luoma, II, Jimmy D. McCoy, James E. Mitchell, Adrian John Murray, David W. Murray, Jack F. Ramsey, Neal T. Sleszynski, Julius J. Toth
  • Patent number: 6138993
    Abstract: A protection screen for a condenser unit of an air conditioning or heat pump system utilizes a plurality of screen panels to form a protective enclosure about the periphery of the condenser unit. The protection screen is self-supporting and is spaced a sufficient distance from the condenser unit to provide an adequate air gap. The protection screen prevents ingress of clogging particulate matter into the heat exchanger portion of the condenser unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Inventors: James E. Mitchell, Jr., John H. Mitchell, Norman E. Logan
  • Patent number: 5856194
    Abstract: The embodiments disclosed relate to determination of an item of interest in a sample. In one method, a process path comprising a process lane including a process step performance lane where a process step is performed, and a process step avoidance lane where the process step is avoided is provided. A container holding the sample is moved along the process path. The sample is introduced to the container. A reagent is introduced to the container. The sample and the reagent are mixed in the container. The container is selectively positioned in a selected one of the process step performance lane and the process step avoidance lane. The item of interest in the sample is determined based upon a reaction between the sample and the reagent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1999
    Assignee: Abbott Laboratories
    Inventors: David C. Arnquist, Grady Barnes, III, Richard D. Button, Chadwick M. Dunn, Richard C. East, Jr., Patrick P. Fritchie, Charles M. Galitz, Gregory E. Gardner, Cass J. Grandone, Robert C. Gray, James T. Holen, Robert P. Luoma, II, Jimmy D. McCoy, James E. Mitchell, Adrian John Murray, David W. Murray, Jack F. Ramsey, Neal T. Sleszynski, Julius J. Toth
  • Patent number: 5848486
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method controls a heating device in a laundry ironer. The apparatus includes a frame and an ironer cylinder. The ironer cylinder rotatably connects to the frame and has an interior surface and an exterior surface. The interior and exterior surfaces extend substantially from a first end to a second end of the ironer cylinder. A line of sight temperature sensor connects to the frame near the first end wherein a line of sight of the sensor is directed at a portion of the interior surface of the cylinder. As the ironer cylinder rotates and is heated by a heating element, the temperature of a portion of the interior surface is sensed. Based on the temperature and a threshold, the state of the heating element is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1998
    Assignee: FinishTech, Ltd.
    Inventors: James E. Mitchell, Bruce W. Johnson
  • Patent number: 5795784
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide methods of performing a process for determining an item of interest in a sample. In one embodiment, a container for holding the sample is accepted in a process lane where a process step is selectively automatically performed on the sample in the container. The process step is selectively automatically performed on the sample in the container. An effective length of the process lane is maintained constant while a physical length of the process lane is selectively varied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignee: Abbott Laboratories
    Inventors: David C. Arnquist, Grady Barnes, III, Chadwick M. Dunn, Richard C. East, Jr., Patrick P. Fritchie, Gregory E. Gardner, Cass J. Grandone, Robert C. Gray, James T. Holen, Jimmy D. McCoy, James E. Mitchell, Adrian John Murray, David W. Murray, Jack F. Ramsey, Neal T. Sleszynski
  • Patent number: 5762878
    Abstract: A sample container segment assembly for use in an automated, continuous, and random access analytical system is disclosed. The assembly includes a sample container which is received by a sample container segment, and the sample container segment is received on a carousel of the automated analytical instrument. The test sample container includes an upper skirt and a body having a reservoir for receipt of the test sample. The segment includes a base, a frame, and a handle. The frame has a shelf for which the upper skirt of the test sample container rests on, and has openings for receipt of the body of the sample container. The carousel has a carousel trough for receipt of the base of the sample container segment, and has a plurality of alignment pins disposed in the carousel trough. The base of the sample container segment has a circular slot and an elongated slot for receiving the alignment pins and positioning the sample container segment relative to the carousel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Abbott Laboratories
    Inventors: Frederick L. Clark, Kendall B. Hendrick, Richard R. Martin, Larry W. Moore, William J. Raymoure, Paul R. Schrier, Edna S. Walker, Donny Ray Walker, Gary E. Winter, Kevin M. Cloonan, David A. Yost, John M. Clemens, William J. Kanewske, III, Douglas D. McDowell, Carl M. Oleksak, William D. Rumbaugh, B. Jane Smith, James A. Vaught, Apparao Tayi, Robert A. Wohlford, James E. Mitchell, Robert B. Hance, Peter A. Lagocki, Richard A. Merriam, Charles D. Pennington, Linda S. Schmidt, Adrian M. Spronk, Richard L. Vickstrom, William E. Watkins, III, Gilbert Clift, Alyn K. Stanton, David B. Hills