Patents by Inventor Jean Rutten
Jean Rutten 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: 11911623Abstract: A method, system and device for implanting an electrode assembly of an implantable medical device in a patient's heart. Positioning one or more radiopaque markers in a coronary sinus of the patient's heart. Positioning, by using the one or more positioned radiopaque markers as a fluoroscopic visual reference, a distal tip of a delivery catheter within a right atrium of the patient's heart so that a distal opening of a lumen of the catheter is against a septal wall of the heart at a location between the ostium of the coronary sinus and the A-V nodal area of the right atrium, and so that the tip of the catheter is generally directed toward a left ventricle of the patient's heart. Advancing the electrode assembly through the lumen of the catheter and into the septal wall.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Vicki L. Bjorklund, Xin Chen, William J. Clemens, Lilian Kornet, Jean Rutten, Berthold Stegemann, Zhongping Yang
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Publication number: 20240003328Abstract: The subject of the invention is a hydraulic turbine of the Pelton type suitable for driving an alternator with a determined net rated (nominal) power of 5 to 1000 kW with a maximum hydraulic pressure substantially equivalent to a maximum determined height of waterfall of between 70 m and 500 m.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventor: Jean Rutten
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Patent number: 11819699Abstract: VfA cardiac therapy uses an implantable medical device or system. The implantable medical device includes a tissue-piercing electrode implanted in the basal and/or septal region of the left ventricular myocardium of the patient's heart from the triangle of Koch region of the right atrium through the right atrial endocardium and central fibrous body. The device may include a right atrial electrode, a right atrial motion detector, or both. The device may be implanted completely within the patient's heart or may use one or more leads to implant electrodes in the patient's heart. The device may be used to provide cardiac therapy, including single or multiple chamber pacing, atrioventricular synchronous pacing, asynchronous pacing, triggered pacing, cardiac resynchronization pacing, or tachycardia-related therapy. A separate medical device may be used to provide some functionality for cardiac therapy, such as sensing, pacing, or shock therapy.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Zhongping Yang, Thomas A. Anderson, Brian P. Colin, William J. Clemens, Subham Ghosh, Jeffrey M. Gillberg, Maurice T. I Verbeek, Toine Camps, Lilian Kornet, Berthold Stegemann, Jean Rutten
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Patent number: 11400296Abstract: VfA cardiac therapy uses an implantable medical device or system. The implantable medical device includes a tissue-piercing electrode implanted in the basal and/or septal region of the left ventricular myocardium of the patient's heart from the triangle of Koch region of the right atrium through the right atrial endocardium and central fibrous body. The device may include a right atrial electrode, a right atrial motion detector, or both. The device may be implanted completely within the patient's heart or may use one or more leads to implant electrodes in the patient's heart. The device may be used to provide cardiac therapy, including single or multiple chamber pacing, atrioventricular synchronous pacing, asynchronous pacing, triggered pacing, cardiac resynchronization pacing, or tachycardia-related therapy. A separate medical device may be used to provide some functionality for cardiac therapy, such as sensing, pacing, or shock therapy.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Zhongping Yang, Thomas A. Anderson, Brian P. Colin, William J. Clemens, Subham Ghosh, Jeffrey M. Gillberg, Maurice T. I. Verbeek, Toine Camps, Lilian Kornet, Berthold Stegemann, Jean Rutten
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Patent number: 11400282Abstract: In some examples, an implantable medical device (IMD) that includes a pulse generator comprising a housing, electrodes, and circuitry configured to deliver cardiac pacing via the electrodes. The IMD may further include a lead including at least one of the electrodes, an elongate body, a fixation helix, and a connector segment. A width of the helix transverse to a longitudinal axis of the lead is greatest at a distal end of the helix. A proximal end of the elongate body may be connected to a distal end of the pulse generator, and the helix may be attached to a distal end of the elongate body. The pulse generator may include a first connector tab. A distal end of the connector segment may be configured to receive the proximal end of the elongate body and a proximal end of the connector segment may include at least one second connector member configured to engage the first connector tab.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Mark T. Marshall, Teresa A. Whitman, Carla Pfeiffer, Thomas A. Anderson, Jean Rutten, Paul Adams, Antoine Camps, Richard Cornelussen, Ralph Leinders
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Patent number: 11235159Abstract: VfA cardiac therapy uses an implantable medical device or system. The implantable medical device includes a tissue-piercing electrode implanted in the basal and/or septal region of the left ventricular myocardium of the patient's heart from the triangle of Koch region of the right atrium through the right atrial endocardium and central fibrous body. The device may include a right atrial electrode, a right atrial motion detector, or both. The device may be implanted completely within the patient's heart or may use one or more leads to implant electrodes in the patient's heart. The device may be used to provide cardiac therapy, including single or multiple chamber pacing, atrioventricular synchronous pacing, asynchronous pacing, triggered pacing, cardiac resynchronization pacing, or tachycardia-related therapy. A separate medical device may be used to provide some functionality for cardiac therapy, such as sensing, pacing, or shock therapy.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Zhongping Yang, Thomas A. Anderson, Brian P. Colin, William J. Clemens, Subham Ghosh, Jeffrey M. Gillberg, Maurice T. I. Verbeek, Toine Camps, Lilian Kornet, Berthold Stegemann, Jean Rutten
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Patent number: 10946190Abstract: A method and system for employing a medical device is disclosed. The medical device includes a housing, a processor disposed within the housing, a connector module, and a medical electrical epicardial lead connected to the processor through the connector module. The epicardial lead is used to sense a cardiac signal from tissue of a patient. The lead comprises an insulative lead body that includes a proximal end and a distal end, at least one conductor disposed in the lead body, and a side helical fixation member, disposed a distance from the distal end, the side helical fixation member. The side helical fixation member comprises a set of windings configured to wrap around the lead body circumference. The side helical fixation member includes a distal tip comprising a sharpened elongated flat free end that is perpendicular to the lead body and angled toward an inside of the set of windings.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Mark T. Marshall, Andrea J. Asleson, Jean Rutten
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Publication number: 20200230415Abstract: VfA cardiac therapy uses an implantable medical device or system. The implantable medical device includes a tissue-piercing electrode implanted in the basal and/or septal region of the left ventricular myocardium of the patient's heart from the triangle of Koch region of the right atrium through the right atrial endocardium and central fibrous body. The device may include a right atrial electrode, a right atrial motion detector, or both. The device may be implanted completely within the patient's heart or may use one or more leads to implant electrodes in the patient's heart. The device may be used to provide cardiac therapy, including single or multiple chamber pacing, atrioventricular synchronous pacing, asynchronous pacing, triggered pacing, cardiac resynchronization pacing, or tachycardia-related therapy. A separate medical device may be used to provide some functionality for cardiac therapy, such as sensing, pacing, or shock therapy.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Zhongping Yang, Thomas A. Anderson, Brian P. Colin, William J. Clemens, Subham Ghosh, Jeffrey M. Gillberg, Maurice T.I. Verbeek, Toine Camps, Lilian Kornet, Berthold Stegemann, Jean Rutten
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Publication number: 20200147365Abstract: In some examples, an implantable medical device (IMD) that includes a pulse generator comprising a housing, electrodes, and circuitry configured to deliver cardiac pacing via the electrodes. The IMD may further include a lead including at least one of the electrodes, an elongate body, a fixation helix, and a connector segment. A width of the helix transverse to a longitudinal axis of the lead is greatest at a distal end of the helix. A proximal end of the elongate body may be connected to a distal end of the pulse generator, and the helix may be attached to a distal end of the elongate body. The pulse generator may include a first connector tab. A distal end of the connector segment may be configured to receive the proximal end of the elongate body and a proximal end of the connector segment may include at least one second connector member configured to engage the first connector tab.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: Mark T. Marshall, Teresa A. Whitman, Carla Pfeiffer, Thomas A. Anderson, Jean Rutten, Paul Adams, Antoine Camps, Richard Cornelussen, Ralph Leinders
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Publication number: 20190290910Abstract: VfA cardiac therapy uses an implantable medical device or system. The implantable medical device includes a tissue-piercing electrode implanted in the basal and/or septal region of the left ventricular myocardium of the patient's heart from the triangle of Koch region of the right atrium through the right atrial endocardium and central fibrous body. The device may include a right atrial electrode, a right atrial motion detector, or both. The device may be implanted completely within the patient's heart or may use one or more leads to implant electrodes in the patient's heart. The device may be used to provide cardiac therapy, including single or multiple chamber pacing, atrioventricular synchronous pacing, asynchronous pacing, triggered pacing, cardiac resynchronization pacing, or tachycardia-related therapy. A separate medical device may be used to provide some functionality for cardiac therapy, such as sensing, pacing, or shock therapy.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Zhongping Yang, Thomas A. Anderson, Brian P. Colin, William J. Clemens, Subham Ghosh, Jeffrey M. Gillberg, Maurice T. I. Verbeek, Toine Camps, Lilian Kornet, Berthold Stegemann, Jean Rutten
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Publication number: 20190290915Abstract: VfA cardiac therapy uses an implantable medical device or system. The implantable medical device includes a tissue-piercing electrode implanted in the basal and/or septal region of the left ventricular myocardium of the patient's heart from the triangle of Koch region of the right atrium through the right atrial endocardium and central fibrous body. The device may include a right atrial electrode, a right atrial motion detector, or both. The device may be implanted completely within the patient's heart or may use one or more leads to implant electrodes in the patient's heart. The device may be used to provide cardiac therapy, including single or multiple chamber pacing, atrioventricular synchronous pacing, asynchronous pacing, triggered pacing, cardiac resynchronization pacing, or tachycardia-related therapy. A separate medical device may be used to provide some functionality for cardiac therapy, such as sensing, pacing, or shock therapy.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Zhongping Yang, Thomas A. Anderson, Brian P. Colin, William J. Clemens, Subham Ghosh, Jeffrey M. Gillberg, Maurice T. I. Verbeek, Toine Camps, Lilian Kornet, Berthold Stegemann, Jean Rutten
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Publication number: 20190269929Abstract: A method, system and device for implanting an electrode assembly of an implantable medical device in a patient's heart. Positioning one or more radiopaque markers in a coronary sinus of the patient's heart. Positioning, by using the one or more positioned radiopaque markers as a fluoroscopic visual reference, a distal tip of a delivery catheter within a right atrium of the patient's heart so that a distal opening of a lumen of the catheter is against a septal wall of the heart at a location between the ostium of the coronary sinus and the A-V nodal area of the right atrium, and so that the tip of the catheter is generally directed toward a left ventricle of the patient's heart. Advancing the electrode assembly through the lumen of the catheter and into the septal wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2019Publication date: September 5, 2019Inventors: Vicki L. Bjorklund, Xin Chen, William J. Clemens, Lilian Kornet, Jean Rutten, Berthold Stegemann, Zhongping Yang
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Publication number: 20190117960Abstract: A method and system for employing a medical device is disclosed. The medical device includes a housing, a processor disposed within the housing, a connector module, and a medical electrical epicardial lead connected to the processor through the connector module. The epicardial lead is used to sense a cardiac signal from tissue of a patient. The lead comprises an insulative lead body that includes a proximal end and a distal end, at least one conductor disposed in the lead body, and a side helical fixation member, disposed a distance from the distal end, the side helical fixation member. The side helical fixation member comprises a set of windings configured to wrap around the lead body circumference. The side helical fixation member includes a distal tip comprising a sharpened elongated flat free end that is perpendicular to the lead body and angled toward an inside of the set of windings.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Mark T. MARSHALL, Andrea J. ASLESON, Jean RUTTEN
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Patent number: 10195421Abstract: A method and system for employing a medical device is disclosed. The medical device includes a housing, a processor disposed within the housing, a connector module, and a medical electrical epicardial lead connected to the processor through the connector module. The epicardial lead is used to sense a cardiac signal from tissue of a patient. The lead comprises an insulative lead body that includes a proximal end and a distal end, at least one conductor disposed in the lead body, and a side helical fixation member, disposed a distance from the distal end, the side helical fixation member. The side helical fixation member comprises a set of windings configured to wrap around the lead body circumference. The side helical fixation member includes a distal tip comprising a sharpened elongated flat free end that is perpendicular to the lead body and angled toward an inside of the set of windings.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Mark T. Marshall, Andrea J. Asleson, Jean Rutten
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Publication number: 20170189674Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an implantable medical device such as a medical electrical lead. The implantable medical device comprises an electrical connector assembly, an electrode, and an elongated lead body having a proximal end and a distal end. The lead body comprising an elongated conductor, a coiled conductor, and an insulative cover surrounding the coiled conductor. The insulative cover comprises a set of ports along a distal portion of the lead body and adjacent the electrode. The electrode is located on the lead body distal to the electrical connector assembly. The coiled conductor extends distally from the electrical connector assembly within the elongated lead body and is mechanically coupled to the electrode. The elongated conductor extends distally from the connector assembly and is electrically coupled to the electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2016Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Toine Camps, Jean Rutten
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Publication number: 20170043155Abstract: A method and system for employing a medical device is disclosed. The medical device includes a housing, a processor disposed within the housing, a connector module, and a medical electrical epicardial lead connected to the processor through the connector module. The epicardial lead is used to sense a cardiac signal from tissue of a patient. The lead comprises an insulative lead body that includes a proximal end and a distal end, at least one conductor disposed in the lead body, and a side helical fixation member, disposed a distance from the distal end, the side helical fixation member. The side helical fixation member comprises a set of windings configured to wrap around the lead body circumference. The side helical fixation member includes a distal tip comprising a sharpened elongated flat free end that is perpendicular to the lead body and angled toward an inside of the set of windings.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2016Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: Mark T. MARSHALL, Andrea J. ASLESON, Jean RUTTEN
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Patent number: 9540943Abstract: A power plant comprises: (a) a liquid pressurizing unit, (b) a Pelton turbine having a rotating shaft, (c) a duct connecting the pressurizing unit to the Pelton turbine for supplying pressurized liquid to the Pelton turbine, the duct being provided with at least one injector, and (d) a generator, advantageously an alternator, capable of being driven directly by the rotating shaft of the turbine, advantageously with the interposition of a gear system.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2015Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: RUTTEN NEW ENERGY SYSTEM SAInventor: Jean Rutten
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Publication number: 20150354398Abstract: A power plant comprises: (a) a liquid pressurising unit, (b) a Pelton turbine having a rotating shaft, (c) a duct connecting the pressurising unit to the Pelton turbine for supplying pressurised liquid to the Pelton turbine, the duct being provided with at least one injector, and (d) a generator, advantageously an alternator, capable of being driven directly by the rotating shaft of the turbine, advantageously with the interposition of a gear system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2015Publication date: December 10, 2015Inventor: Jean Rutten
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Patent number: 9061396Abstract: Abrasive blasting control method in which a control device (10) is used including at least a swing-arm (13) and in which the movement of the swing-arm (13) is controlled from the exterior of the casing of the wheel from its rest position to its second position in which said swing arm (13) is subjected to a part of the jet of abrasives leaving the wheel (1).Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2011Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: ROSLER HOLDING GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Leon Rutten, Jean Rutten
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Patent number: 8996130Abstract: Temporary touch-proof connectors are disclosed that include an insulating body defining a passageway having an open leading end configured to receive a connector element of a medical lead and an enclosed trailing end shielding the connector element.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Antoine Camps, Markus Lazeroms, Jean Rutten, Paulus Van Venrooij, Bernard Cuisset