Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Stephen Plott
Jeffrey Stephen Plott 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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Publication number: 20210212700Abstract: An anti-hemorrhage device, and an anti-hemorrhage kit, includes a rigid platform and a compression device adjustably secured to the rigid platform. The kit also includes a gastroesophageal aortic occlusion device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2020Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Jeffrey Stephen Plott, Kevin R. Ward
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Patent number: 10960178Abstract: An actuated telescoping system for navigation within a vascular lumen and thrombectomy of a thrombus. The system includes a tubular catheter member having an open distal end defining a catheter lumen, a vacuum source, a rotational drive system, a flexible shaft having a channel coupled to the rotational drive system for rotational movement in response thereto, and an optional guidewire selectively inserted at least partially within the flexible shaft. The flexible shaft is at least partially disposed within the tubular catheter member configured for uncoupled rotational and translational motion therein and to optionally define a corkscrew motion in response to rotational driving force by the drive system that results in formation of hydrodynamic vortices within the catheter lumen.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANInventors: Luis Emilio Savastano, Jeffrey Stephen Plott, Yang Liu, Yihao Zheng, Albert Jau-Min Shih
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Publication number: 20210045770Abstract: An actuated telescoping system for navigation within a vascular lumen and thrombectomy of a thrombus. The system includes a tubular catheter member having an open distal end defining a catheter lumen, a vacuum source, a rotational drive system, a flexible shaft having a channel coupled to the rotational drive system for rotational movement in response thereto, and an optional guidewire selectively inserted at least partially within the flexible shaft. The flexible shaft is at least partially disposed within the tubular catheter member configured for uncoupled rotational and translational motion therein and to optionally define a corkscrew motion in response to rotational driving force by the drive system that results in formation of hydrodynamic vortices within the catheter lumen.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Luis Emilio SAVASTANO, Jeffrey Stephen PLOTT, Yang LIU, Yihao ZHENG, Albert Jau-Min SHIH
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Publication number: 20210030418Abstract: An everter device to facilitate preparation of ends of arterial segments for end-to-end microvascular anastomosis. The device includes structure that provides sufficient support to prevent unwanted buckling of arterial tissue. The everter device offsets the tendency of the arterial tissue wall to recover its natural shape and fall off securement posts or pins of a coupler ring. The structure may be in the form of an intraluminal catheter balloon. Alternately, the structure may be in the form of a plunger. Alternately, the structure may be in the form of a radially expanding member provided on a shaft. The device further has a contoured surface on an everter end to evert a free end of arterial tissue over a coupler ring, and to cause the posts or pins of the coupler ring to pierce through the everted arterial tissue. The everter end is provided with one or more openings therein, such as a circumferential slot, to receive the posts or pins of the coupler ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Jeffrey Stephen Plott, Paul S. Cederna, Kirsten Boelkins, Jeffrey H. Kozlow, Jonathan William Zwier, Krishna Mahajan, Kelsey L. Luibrand, Martin Sisolak, Sebastian Kwon, Aaron S. Farberg, Adeyiza Momoh, Albert J. Shih
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Patent number: 10842493Abstract: An everter device to facilitate preparation of ends of arterial segments for end-to-end microvascular anastomosis. The device includes structure that provides sufficient support to prevent unwanted buckling of arterial tissue. The everter device offsets the tendency of the arterial tissue wall to recover its natural shape and fall off securement posts or pins of a coupler ring. The structure may be in the form of an intraluminal catheter balloon. Alternately, the structure may be in the form of a plunger. Alternately, the structure may be in the form of a radially expanding member provided on a shaft. The device further has a contoured surface on an everter end to evert a free end of arterial tissue over a coupler ring, and to cause the posts or pins of the coupler ring to pierce through the everted arterial tissue. The everter end is provided with one or more openings therein, such as a circumferential slot, to receive the posts or pins of the coupler ring.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2016Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANInventors: Jeffrey Stephen Plott, Paul S. Cederna, Kirsten Boelkins, Jeffrey H. Kozlow, Jonathan William Zwier, Krishna Mahajan, Kelsey L. Luibrand, Martin Sisolak, Sebastian Kwon, Aaron S. Farberg, Adeyiza Momoh, Albert J. Shih
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Patent number: 10695071Abstract: A portable compact tourniquet includes a pivot housing, a strap carriage that is linearly translatable relative to the pivot housing, and a screw assembly. When the screw assembly is operated, the strap carriage away from the pivot housing, thus tightening a tourniquet strap that is attached to the strap carriage and to the pivot housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANInventors: Kevin R. Ward, Albert J. Shih, Jeffrey Stephen Plott, Thuan Doan
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Publication number: 20190117421Abstract: A lacrimal stent for intraluminal drainage of a mammal is provided having an elongated tubular member configured to be inserted into at least a portion of the lacrimal drainage structures of the mammal. The elongated tubular member includes an exterior sidewall surface and an interior lumen. The lacrimal stent further includes at least one axial port extending through the exterior sidewall surface to the lumen of the elongated tubular member. The axial port is configured to permit fluidic flow therethrough of the tears of the mammal into the lumen for the purpose of intraluminal drainage.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2017Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Alon KAHANA, Jeffrey Stephen PLOTT
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Publication number: 20190038300Abstract: An actuated telescoping system for navigation within a vascular lumen and thrombectomy of a thrombus. The system includes a tubular catheter member having an open distal end defining a catheter lumen, a vacuum source, a rotational drive system, a flexible shaft having a channel coupled to the rotational drive system for rotational movement in response thereto, and an optional guidewire selectively inserted at least partially within the flexible shaft. The flexible shaft is at least partially disposed within the tubular catheter member configured for uncoupled rotational and translational motion therein and to optionally define a corkscrew motion in response to rotational driving force by the drive system that results in formation of hydrodynamic vortices within the catheter lumen.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Luis Emilio SAVASTANO, Jeffrey Stephen PLOTT, Yang LIU, Yihao ZHENG, Albert Jau-Min SHIH
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Publication number: 20180271529Abstract: An everter device to facilitate preparation of ends of arterial segments for end-to-end microvascular anastomosis. The device includes structure that provides sufficient support to prevent unwanted buckling of arterial tissue. The everter device offsets the tendency of the arterial tissue wall to recover its natural shape and fall off securement posts or pins of a coupler ring. The structure may be in the form of an intraluminal catheter balloon. Alternately, the structure may be in the form of a plunger. Alternately, the structure may be in the form of a radially expanding member provided on a shaft. The device further has a contoured surface on an everter end to evert a free end of arterial tissue over a coupler ring, and to cause the posts or pins of the coupler ring to pierce through the everted arterial tissue. The everter end is provided with one or more openings therein, such as a circumferential slot, to receive the posts or pins of the coupler ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2016Publication date: September 27, 2018Inventors: Jeffrey Stephen Plott, Paul S. Cederma, Kirsten Boelkins, Jeffrey H. Kozlow, Jonathan William Zwier, Krishna Mahajan, Kelsey L. Luibrand, Martin Sisolak, Sebastian Kwon, Aaron S. Farberg, Adeyiza Momoh, Albert J. Shih
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Publication number: 20180193030Abstract: A portable compact tourniquet includes a pivot housing, a strap carriage that is linearly translatable relative to the pivot housing, and a screw assembly. When the screw assembly is operated, the strap carriage away from the pivot housing, thus tightening a tourniquet strap that is attached to the strap carriage and to the pivot housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2018Publication date: July 12, 2018Inventors: Kevin R. Ward, Albert J. Shih, Jeffrey Stephen Plott, Thuan Doan
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Publication number: 20180042629Abstract: The present disclosure provides a mechanically-actuated tool for cutting a tissue graft having a hollow core and methods for use thereof. A portion of a biological structure, such as a nerve, is attached to the hollow core to form an implantable neural graft assembly. The tool has a cutter mechanism and a grasper mechanism. The grasper mechanism has one or more component(s) that open and close via an actuation mechanism, like a handle, and rotate via a controller component, like a rotatable wheel. The cutter mechanism may be a cutting tube component that harvests the tissue graft. The tool may also have an ejector mechanism to remove the tissue graft as part of the implantable neural graft assembly. Such devices and methods are particularly suitable for treating neuromas and other neural regeneration procedures.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2016Publication date: February 15, 2018Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANInventors: Nicholas B. LANGHALS, Cynthia Anne CHESTEK, Paul S. CEDERNA, Albert SHIH, Melanie G. URBANCHEK, Grant H. KRUGER, Jeffrey Stephen PLOTT, Jordan T. KREDA
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Patent number: 9708098Abstract: A receptacle has at least one elastomeric sidewall with a contoured non-linear shape defining a container with a predetermined volume for housing a substance to be contained. The at least one sidewall includes a substance-contacting surface. The receptacle is fully reversibly eversible to transform between a first stable conformation with the substance-contacting surface facing inward and a second stable conformation with the substance-contacting surface facing outward allowing for facile cleaning and drying of the substance-contacting surface. The at least one elastomeric sidewall possesses sufficient structural strength to stand upright in the first and second stable conformations without extraneous support. The receptacle can include a cap and an attachment joint for securing the cap to the elastomeric receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2014Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: flipsi ltd.Inventors: Jeffrey Stephen Plott, Christopher John Plott
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Publication number: 20150164726Abstract: An airway support appliance lifts a patient's jaw upwards by using the mid-face of the patient as a stable fulcrum, thereby alleviating the need for techniques or devices to detect or alleviate airway obstructions. The appliance spans the patient's lower face and is secured to the angle and ramus of each side of the mobile mandible. These attachments are linked to one another across the midface or maxilla, using the bridge of the nose or the area between the nose and upper lip of the patient as the stabilizing point. The appliance may include an adjustment mechanism to facilitate tightening. Upon securement of the device to the patient while in a supine position, and activation of the adjustment mechanism, the mandible of the patient, which is mobile, is lifted anteriorly. Upon lifting of the mandible, the patient's tongue is carried forward and away from the posterior pharynx.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2014Publication date: June 18, 2015Inventors: Kevin R. Ward, Albert J. Shih, Jeffrey Stephen Plott, Christopher Shih
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Publication number: 20140305943Abstract: A receptacle has at least one elastomeric sidewall with a contoured non-linear shape defining a container with a predetermined volume for housing a substance to be contained. The at least one sidewall includes a substance-contacting surface. The receptacle is fully reversibly eversible to transform between a first stable conformation with the substance-contacting surface facing inward and a second stable conformation with the substance-contacting surface facing outward allowing for facile cleaning and drying of the substance-contacting surface. The at least one elastomeric sidewall possesses sufficient structural strength to stand upright in the first and second stable conformations without extraneous support. The receptacle can include a cap and an attachment joint for securing the cap to the elastomeric receptacle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Inventors: Jeffrey Stephen Plott, Christopher John Plott
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Publication number: 20140209610Abstract: An elastomeric containment receptacle has at least one sidewall defining a container substantially surrounding and enclosing a predetermined volume for housing a substance to be contained within the receptacle. The at least one sidewall includes a substance-contacting surface. The receptacle is reversibly transformable between a first stable conformation, wherein the substance-contacting surface faces inward, and a second stable conformation, wherein the substance-contacting surface faces outward. In other words, the receptacle is fully eversible, allowing for facile cleaning and drying of the receptacle interior. The receptacle possesses sufficient structural strength to stand without extraneous support. The eversible receptacle can be adapted to serve as a nursing bottle or other beverage receptacle. The receptacle can include a nipple or other receptacle cap, and an attachment joint for securing the cap to the elastomeric receptacle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Inventors: Jeffrey Stephen Plott, Christopher John Plott