Patents by Inventor Jason T. Lenz
Jason T. Lenz 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: 9504822Abstract: A system includes a medical device lead including a connector at a proximal end of the lead, a conductor electrically connected to the connector at a proximal end of the conductor, and at least one electrode coupled to a distal end of the conductor. The system further includes a device securable to the proximal end of the lead including an inductive element. The device includes a port configured to receive the connector and position the inductive element around at least a portion of the connector.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2015Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.Inventors: Arthur J. Foster, Linda L. Evert, Joel P. Grover, Jason T. Lenz, Brendan E. Koop
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Publication number: 20150182744Abstract: A system includes a medical device lead including a connector at a proximal end of the lead, a conductor electrically connected to the connector at a proximal end of the conductor, and at least one electrode coupled to a distal end of the conductor. The system further includes a device securable to the proximal end of the lead including an inductive element. The device includes a port configured to receive the connector and position the inductive element around at least a portion of the connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2015Publication date: July 2, 2015Inventors: Arthur J. Foster, Linda L. Evert, Joel P. Grover, Jason T. Lenz, Brendan E. Koop
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Patent number: 8983623Abstract: A system includes a medical device lead including a connector at a proximal end of the lead, a conductor electrically connected to the connector at a proximal end of the conductor, and at least one electrode coupled to a distal end of the conductor. The system further includes a device securable to the proximal end of the lead including an inductive element. The device includes a port configured to receive the connector and position the inductive element around at least a portion of the connector.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2013Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.Inventors: Arthur J. Foster, Linda L. Evert, Joel P. Grover, Jason T. Lenz, Brendan E. Koop
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Publication number: 20140114383Abstract: A system includes a medical device lead including a connector at a proximal end of the lead, a conductor electrically connected to the connector at a proximal end of the conductor, and at least one electrode coupled to a distal end of the conductor. The system further includes a device securable to the proximal end of the lead including an inductive element. The device includes a port configured to receive the connector and position the inductive element around at least a portion of the connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.Inventors: Arthur J. Foster, Linda L. Evert, Joel P. Grover, Jason T. Lenz, Brendan E. Koop
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Patent number: 8251962Abstract: This invention relates to a method of providing a coating on a medical device, especially a dilatation balloon, which improves the durability of the balloon.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2009Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventor: Jason T. Lenz
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Publication number: 20110190873Abstract: A stent with strut bands and connectors, wherein the strut bands have long and short struts with a junction positioned between the short struts. Each junction defines a reservoir, wherein the reservoirs of a strut band are substantially circumferentially aligned. The connectors each have arms, wherein each arm includes an opposing U-shaped link. The opposing links have a shared portion disposed between a peak on one strut band and a longitudinally adjacent trough of an adjacent strut band.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2011Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Jason T. Lenz, Daniel Gregorich
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Patent number: 7951193Abstract: A stent for delivering therapeutic agents to a body lumen includes a plurality of circumferential serpentine bands with each band comprising a plurality of struts. At least one strut has at least one first well region and at least one second well region. The at least one first well region has a first thickness, the at least one second well region has a second thickness, the first thickness being greater than the second thickness. Each well region defines a well having a depth. At least some of the wells contain a therapeutic agent.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2008Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Robaina, Cory Hitzman, Kim Robertson, Liza Davis, Jason T. Lenz
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Patent number: 7922756Abstract: A stent with strut bands and connectors, wherein the strut bands have long and short struts with a junction positioned between the short struts. Each junction defines a reservoir, wherein the reservoirs of a strut band are substantially circumferentially aligned. The connectors each have arms, wherein each arm includes an opposing U-shaped link. The opposing links have a shared portion disposed between a peak on one strut band and a longitudinally adjacent trough of an adjacent strut band.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2010Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Jason T. Lenz, Daniel Gregorich
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Publication number: 20100292777Abstract: An expandable stent has a plurality of expandable rings formed of a plurality of struts and at least one first connector interconnecting adjacent expandable rings. The plurality of struts include a first strut and the at least one first connector has a first arm. A first portion of the first arm is engaged to a first portion of the first strut so that the first portion of the first arm and the first portion of the first strut define a through hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2009Publication date: November 18, 2010Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Michael P. Meyer, Samuel Robaina, Dennis Boismier, Jason T. Lenz, Liza Davis, Kim Robertson, Doug Thesingh, Cory Hitzman, Timothy S. Girton
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Publication number: 20100222868Abstract: A stent with strut bands and connectors, wherein the strut bands have long and short struts with a junction positioned between the short struts. Each junction defines a reservoir, wherein the reservoirs of a strut band are substantially circumferentially aligned. The connectors each have arms, wherein each arm includes an opposing U-shaped link. The opposing links have a shared portion disposed between a peak on one strut band and a longitudinally adjacent trough of an adjacent strut band.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2010Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Jason T. Lenz, Daniel Gregorich
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Patent number: 7722661Abstract: A stent with strut bands and connectors, wherein the strut bands have long and short struts with a junction positioned between the short struts. Each junction defines a reservoir, wherein the reservoirs of a strut band are substantially circumferentially aligned. The connectors each have arms, wherein each arm includes an opposing U-shaped link. The opposing links have a shared portion disposed between a peak on one strut band and a longitudinally adjacent trough of an adjacent strut band.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2007Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Jason T. Lenz, Daniel Gregorich
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Patent number: 7722660Abstract: A stent comprises a plurality of serpentine bands. Each serpentine band has alternating peak regions and trough regions and extends about substantially the entire circumference of the stent. At least one of the serpentine bands has a spline extending therefrom toward a serpentine band adjacent thereto. Serpentine bands which are adjacent one another are connected one to the other.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2006Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventor: Jason T. Lenz
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Publication number: 20100023115Abstract: A stent for delivering therapeutic agents to a body lumen includes a plurality of circumferential serpentine bands with each band comprising a plurality of struts. At least one strut has at least one first well region and at least one second well region. The at least one first well region has a first thickness, the at least one second well region has a second thickness, the first thickness being greater than the second thickness. Each well region defines a well having a depth. At least some of the wells contain a therapeutic agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2008Publication date: January 28, 2010Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Samuel Robaina, Cory Hitzman, Kim Robertson, Liza Davis, Jason T. Lenz
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Publication number: 20090163991Abstract: A stent with strut bands and connectors, wherein the strut bands have long and short struts with a junction positioned between the short struts. Each junction defines a reservoir, wherein the reservoirs of a strut band are substantially circumferentially aligned. The connectors each have arms, wherein each arm includes an opposing U-shaped link. The opposing links have a shared portion disposed between a peak on one strut band and a longitudinally adjacent trough of an adjacent strut band.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2007Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Jason T. Lenz, Daniel Gregorich
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Publication number: 20090124969Abstract: This invention relates to a method of providing a coating on a medical device, especially a dilatation balloon, which improves the durability of the balloon.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2009Publication date: May 14, 2009Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventor: Jason T. Lenz
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Patent number: 7479128Abstract: This invention relates to a method of providing a coating on a medical device, especially a dilatation balloon, which improves the durability of the balloon.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2000Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventor: Jason T. Lenz
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Publication number: 20080275543Abstract: In at least one embodiment, the invention is directed to mechanisms that affect the elution rate of a therapeutic agent that has been deposited on the surface of at least a portion of a stent. Mechanisms include grooves formed in the therapeutic agent that is coating at least a portion of the surface of the stent. In at least one embodiment, the invention is directed to the directional release of a therapeutic agent contained within a reservoir formed in at least one member of a stent.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2007Publication date: November 6, 2008Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Jason T. LENZ, Jaykeep Y. Kokate, Matthew J. Miller
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Patent number: 7226475Abstract: A stent having variable thickness with improved radiopacity, MRI compatibility, radial stiffness, and flexibility and to the method of making such stents.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2002Date of Patent: June 5, 2007Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Jason T. Lenz, Jonathan Swift Stinson
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Patent number: 7179286Abstract: A stent comprises a plurality of serpentine circumferential bands and a plurality of connector columns. Each connector column is located between two adjacent serpentine circumferential bands and comprises a plurality connector struts. Each connector strut is connected at one end to one serpentine circumferential band and at another end to another serpentine circumferential band. Each connector strut has step sections and at least one riser. Each step section extends substantially in a circumferential direction and each riser extends in a substantially longitudinal direction. The steps in a connector are connected to one another via a riser.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2003Date of Patent: February 20, 2007Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventor: Jason T. Lenz
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Patent number: 7144420Abstract: A stent comprises a plurality of serpentine bands. Each serpentine band has alternating peak regions and trough regions and extends about substantially the entire circumference of the stent. At least one of the serpentine bands has a spline extending therefrom toward a serpentine band adjacent thereto. Serpentine bands which are adjacent one another are connected one to the other.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2002Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventor: Jason T. Lenz