Patents by Inventor Jan Weber

Jan Weber 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).

  • Medical devices containing silicate and carbon particles
    Patent number: 8480729
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, implantable and insertable medical devices are provided which contain one or more particle-containing regions that comprise silicate particles and carbon particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Boston Science Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Liliana Atanasoska, Jan Weber, John Jianhua Chen, Daniel J. Horn
  • NERVE MODULATION SYSTEM HAVING HELICAL GUIDE
    Publication number: 20130165920
    Abstract: Systems for nerve modulation and methods for making and using the same are disclosed. An example system for nerve modulation may include a first elongate element having a distal end and a proximal end and having a helical guide having a proximal end and a distal end. The system may also include a second elongate element having a distal end and a proximal end and having a nerve modulation element proximate the distal end. A sheath may be disposed about both the first and second elongate elements. Pulling proximally on the proximal end of the first elongate element may cause simultaneous radial and longitudinal displacement of the nerve modulation element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: JAN WEBER, AIDEN FLANAGAN, TIM O'CONNOR
  • DECALCIFYING HEART VALVE
    Publication number: 20130150957
    Abstract: Vascular valve systems for treating calcified vascular vessel valves by delivery of one or more calcium chelating agents are described. Methods of making the vascular valve systems are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventor: Jan Weber
  • Bifurcation delivery systems and methods
    Patent number: 8454681
    Abstract: A catheter assembly including a side branch locator that is moveable between a retracted position within a main vessel of a vessel bifurcation, and an extended position wherein a distal end of the side branch locator extends into a branch vessel of the vessel bifurcation. The side branch locator includes a first end fixed relative to a portion of the catheter assembly that remains in the main vessel. A second end of the side branch locator is moveable between the retracted and extended positions. The catheter assembly can include a moveable sheath that holds the side branch locator in the retracted position. The catheter assembly can further include a stent having a lateral branch opening through which the side branch locator extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Holman, Jan Weber
  • Method of forming a catheter
    Patent number: 8449803
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for surface modification of catheters. The surface modification can be localized to a lumen surface of the catheter. The surface modification to the lumen surface extends radially into the catheter body a predetermined distance to provide a hardened zone having a hardness that is greater than a hardness of an exterior surface of the catheter body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventor: Jan Weber
  • Medical devices
    Patent number: 8449601
    Abstract: Medical devices including an organic-inorganic composite material, including methods of making the devices, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventor: Jan Weber
  • Endoprosthesis coating
    Patent number: 8449603
    Abstract: An endoprosthesis, e.g., a stent (e.g., a drug eluting stent), that includes a porous surface and hollow elements integrated with a coating on the surface and a method of making the same are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Boston Scientific SciMed, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Weber, Liliana Atanasoska, Michele Zoromski
  • USING BUCKY PAPER AS A THERAPEUTIC AID IN MEDICAL APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20130122060
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and uses of bucky paper are provided in the present invention. These embodiments include covering medical implants with single or multiple layers of bucky paper, treating bucky paper with various therapeutics to be released through the bucky paper to a target site, shaping bucky paper into non-conventional configurations for improved therapeutic deliver, and using bucky paper alone or in conjunction with other materials to treat a target site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Inventors: Jan WEBER, Thomas J. HOLMAN, Tracee EIDENSCHINK, John Jianhua CHEN
  • Stent retaining mechanisms
    Patent number: 8439961
    Abstract: A catheter system comprises a catheter comprising a distal portion, a proximal portion and an inner shaft. The inner shaft comprises a medical device receiving region for receiving and carrying a medical device. The retaining device is at least partially constructed of an electroactive polymer. The retaining device is located on or adjacent to the medical device receiving region. The electroactive polymer of the retaining device has an activated state and an inactivated state. The retaining device is capable of retaining a medical device to the catheter and releasing the medical device from the catheter by transitioning between the activated state and the inactivated state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Karl A. Jagger, Tracee Eidenschink, Derek Sutermeister, Daniel Gregorich, Yousef Alkhatib, Matt Heidner, Adam Jennings, Richard C. Gunderson, John Blix, Timothy J. Mickley, Richard Olson, Jan Weber, Dominick Godin
  • Bioerodible, implantable medical devices incorporating supersaturated magnesium alloys
    Patent number: 8435281
    Abstract: A bioerodible, implantable medical device that includes a supersaturated magnesium alloy. The magnesium alloy includes magnesium and at least one alloying element present in a concentration in excess of the equilibrium solid solubility concentration of the alloying element in hexagonal close-packed magnesium [at 25° C.].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventor: Jan Weber
  • Catheter distal tip design and method of making
    Patent number: 8404165
    Abstract: A catheter comprises a catheter shaft having a distal tip, the distal tip having an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface having a rounded profile. The catheter may be made by rounding the inner surface of the distal tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Weber, Thomas J. Holman
  • Electrically actuated medical devices
    Patent number: 8398693
    Abstract: The present invention relates to medical devices for implantation or insertion into body lumens, for example, catheters, guidewires, stents and aneurysm coils. The devices of the present invention comprise electrically actuated materials, such as electroactive polymers and piezoelectric and electrostrictive materials, which enhance or expand their functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Weber, Tracee Eidenschink, David Elizondo, Loren Simer
  • Medical implant having NANO-crystal grains with barrier layers of metal nitrides or fluorides
    Patent number: 8382824
    Abstract: A endoprosthesis includes a body comprising a plurality of interconnected struts. The body includes a bioerodible metal. At least a first strut of the plurality of interconnected struts includes a stripe on the surface of the first strut. The stripe including a nitride of the bioerodible metal, a fluoride of the bioerodible metal, or a combination thereof. The stripe runs along the length of the first strut. The stripe is part of a continuous network of stripes on struts adjacent to the first strut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventor: Jan Weber
  • Medical device with expandable body for drug delivery by capsules
    Patent number: 8366661
    Abstract: Medical devices using an expandable body to deliver a therapeutic agent. In one particular embodiment, the medical device comprises a tubular catheter and an inner expandable body (e.g., a scaffolding) contained within the catheter. The inner expandable body is connected to a core wire for advancing or retracting the inner body. The inner body may be advanced to exit out of the catheter or retracted to withdraw the inner body back into the catheter. This particular embodiment further comprises a sheath on the outside of the interior of the catheter. The sheath carries a plurality of capsules that contain a therapeutic agent. The therapeutic agent is delivered by pushing the core wire to advance the inner body, which expands against the sheath, causing the capsules on the sheath to be compressed against body tissue such that the therapeutic agent is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Weber, Steven P. Mertens
  • Using bucky paper as a therapeutic aid in medical applications
    Patent number: 8354120
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and uses of bucky paper are provided in the present invention. These embodiments include covering medical implants with single or multiple layers of bucky paper, treating bucky paper with various therapeutics to be released through the bucky paper to a target site, shaping bucky paper into non-conventional configurations for improved therapeutic deliver, and using bucky paper alone or in conjunction with other materials to treat a target site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Weber, Tom Holman, Tracee Eidenschink, John Jianhua Chen
  • Medical devices with drug-eluting coating
    Patent number: 8353949
    Abstract: Medical devices, such as endoprostheses, and methods of making the devices are described. In one embodiment, a medical device having a body of interconnected bands and connectors forming an elongated tubular structure having an inner luminal wall surface, an outer abluminal wall surface and a side wall surface, and defining a central lumen or passageway, wherein said inner luminal wall surface and side wall surface of the bands and connectors form transverse passageways through the elongated tubular structure is described. One or more wall surfaces of the tubular structure can bear a coating whose selected regions define at least one depression. The coating can further include at least one biologically active substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Boston Scientific SciMed, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Weber, Matthew Miller
  • Bifurcation delivery system
    Patent number: 8353944
    Abstract: A catheter assembly comprises a catheter shaft having a proximal region a distal region and a rotational seal therebetween. The rotational seal comprises a first component fixedly engaged to the proximal region and a second component fixedly engaged to the distal region. The components engaged in an overlapping arrangement. The rotational seal is actuatable between a non-activated and activated states. In the non-activated state the first component and the second component are separated by a gap which provides for the distal region of the catheter shaft to be rotatable relative to the proximal region. In the activated state at least a portion of the first component and the second component being sealingly engaged together such that distal region is made static relative to the proximal region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Weber, Karl A. Jagger, Tracee Eidenschink
  • Stent with overlap and high expansion
    Patent number: 8348991
    Abstract: A stent can comprise a tubular body having a first region and a second region. The tubular body is defined by a plurality of serpentine bands. Each serpentine band comprises a plurality of alternating proximal turns and distal turns connected by struts. The second region comprises a first serpentine band and a second serpentine band that overlap one another about a common stent circumference. The first region comprises a serpentine band that is not overlapped by another serpentine band about a common stent circumference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Weber, Karl A. Jagger, Tracee Eidenschink, James Anderson
  • Medical devices
    Patent number: 8343143
    Abstract: Medical systems and methods including balloons having nanotubes are disclosed. In some embodiments, a medical system includes an elongated shaft, and an expandable balloon carried by the shaft and including nanotubes. The medical system is capable of cooling the balloon to less than about 37° C. In some embodiments, a method includes providing a medical device having an elongated shaft, and an expandable balloon carried by the elongated shaft and including nanotubes; and cooling the balloon to less than about 37° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Weber, John M. Hokanson, John H. Chen
  • Bulging balloon for bifurcation catheter assembly and methods
    Patent number: 8333795
    Abstract: A catheter assembly adapted to treat a vessel bifurcation. A balloon member of the catheter assembly includes a main body portion and a cylindrical shaped bulge portion that extends radially outward from the main body portion. The bulge portion extends around a circumference of the main body portion. A stent of the catheter assembly is typically mounted to the balloon member. When treating the vessel bifurcation, the catheter assembly is positioned with the bulge portion aligned axially relative to an ostium of the branch vessel. The balloon member is inflated to expand a portion of the stent into the branch vessel. The circumferential construction of the bulge portion of the balloon member reduces the need for radial (rotational) alignment of the balloon member relative to the ostium of the branch vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Weber, James M. Anderson, Karl Jagger