Patents by Inventor John J. Chen
John J. Chen 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: 11648378Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a device and a method for treating at least one of hypertension, pulmonary arteries, diabetes, obesity, heart failure, end-stage renal disease, digestive disease, urological disease, cancers, tumors, pain, asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by delivering an effective amount of a formulation to a tissue. In embodiments of the present invention, the formulation may include at least one of a gas, a vapor, a liquid, a solution, an emulsion, or a suspensions of one or more ingredients. In embodiments of the present invention, amounts of the formulation and/or energy are effective to injure or damage tissue, nerves, and nerve endings in order to relieve disease symptoms.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Neurotronic, Inc.Inventors: Lixiao Wang, John J. Chen, Yongxing Zhang
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Patent number: 11517725Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a device and a method for treating at least one of hypertension, pulmonary arteries, diabetes, obesity, heart failure, end-stage renal disease, digestive disease, urological disease, cancers, tumors, pain, asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by delivering an effective amount of a formulation to a tissue. In embodiments of the present invention, the formulation may include at least one of a gas, a vapor, a liquid, a solution, an emulsion, or a suspensions of one or more ingredients. In embodiments of the present invention, amounts of the formulation and/or energy are effective to injure or damage tissue, nerves, and nerve endings in order to relieve disease symptoms.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Neurotronic, Inc.Inventors: Lixiao Wang, John J. Chen, Yongxing Zhang
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Publication number: 20220233238Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a device and a method for at least one disease by delivering an effective amount of energy and/or formulation to tissue on or near to a body lumen wall. The formulation can include at least one of a gas, a vapor, a liquid, a solution, an emulsion, a suspension of one or more ingredients, or a combination thereof. The amounts of the formulation and/or energy delivered can be effective to injure or damage tissue, nerves, and/or nerve endings to relieve disease symptoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2020Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Lixiao Wang, John J. Chen, The Thomas Trinh Tran
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Publication number: 20220233827Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a device and a method for treating at least one of hypertension, pulmonary arteries, diabetes, obesity, heart failure, end-stage renal disease, digestive disease, urological disease, cancers, tumors, pain, asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by delivering an effective amount of a formulation to a tissue. In embodiments of the present invention, the formulation may include at least one of a gas, a vapor, a liquid, a solution, an emulsion, or a suspensions of one or more ingredients. In embodiments of the present invention, amounts of the formulation and/or energy are effective to injure or damage tissue, nerves, and nerve endings in order to relieve disease symptoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Lixiao Wang, John J. Chen, Yongxing Zhang
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Publication number: 20200398032Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a device and a method for treating at least one of hypertension, pulmonary arteries, diabetes, obesity, heart failure, end-stage renal disease, digestive disease, urological disease, cancers, tumors, pain, asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by delivering an effective amount of a formulation to a tissue. In embodiments of the present invention, the formulation may include at least one of a gas, a vapor, a liquid, a solution, an emulsion, or a suspension of one or more ingredients. In embodiments of the present invention, amounts of the formulation and/or energy are effective to injure or damage tissue, nerves, and nerve endings in order to relieve disease symptoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: Lixiao Wang, John J. Chen, Yongxing Zhang
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Publication number: 20200360671Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a device and a method for treating at least one of hypertension, pulmonary arteries, diabetes, obesity, heart failure, end-stage renal disease, digestive disease, urological disease, cancers, tumors, pain, asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by delivering an effective amount of a formulation to a tissue. In embodiments of the present invention, the formulation may include at least one of a gas, a vapor, a liquid, a solution, an emulsion, or a suspensions of one or more ingredients. In embodiments of the present invention, amounts of the formulation and/or energy are effective to injure or damage tissue, nerves, and nerve endings in order to relieve disease symptoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Inventors: Lixiao Wang, John J. Chen, Yongxing Zhang
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Patent number: 10758713Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a device and a method for treating at least one of hypertension, pulmonary arteries, diabetes, obesity, heart failure, end-stage renal disease, digestive disease, urological disease, cancers, tumors, pain, asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by delivering an effective amount of a formulation to a tissue. In embodiments of the present invention, the formulation may include at least one of a gas, a vapor, a liquid, a solution, an emulsion, or a suspensions of one or more ingredients. In embodiments of the present invention, amounts of the formulation and/or energy are effective to injure or damage tissue, nerves, and nerve endings in order to relieve disease symptoms.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Neurotronic, Inc.Inventors: Lixiao Wang, John J. Chen, Yongxing Zhang
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Publication number: 20200016379Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a device and a method for treating at least one of hypertension, pulmonary arteries, diabetes, obesity, heart failure, end-stage renal disease, digestive disease, urological disease, cancers, tumors, pain, asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by delivering an effective amount of a formulation to a tissue. In embodiments of the present invention, the formulation may include at least one of a gas, a vapor, a liquid, a solution, an emulsion, or a suspensions of one or more ingredients. In embodiments of the present invention, amounts of the formulation and/or energy are effective to injure or damage tissue, nerves, and nerve endings in order to relieve disease symptoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventors: Lixiao Wang, John J. Chen, Yongxing Zhang
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Publication number: 20200009355Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a device and a method for treating at least one of hypertension, pulmonary arteries, diabetes, obesity, heart failure, end-stage renal disease, digestive disease, urological disease, cancers, tumors, pain, asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by delivering an effective amount of a formulation to a tissue. In embodiments of the present invention, the formulation may include at least one of a gas, a vapor, a liquid, a solution, an emulsion, or a suspensions of one or more ingredients. In embodiments of the present invention, amounts of the formulation and/or energy are effective to injure or damage tissue, nerves, and nerve endings in order to relieve disease symptoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Lixiao Wang, John J. Chen, Yongxing Zhang
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Publication number: 20190274687Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a magnetic anastomosis device (MAD), a delivery catheter for the MAD, and a method for treating at least one of diabetes, obesity, digestive disease, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. In embodiments of the present invention, a pair of the MADs are delivered in body lumen by endoscopic and/or laparoscopic techniques. An anastomosis between two adjacent body lumens is formed by compression of the pair of MADs followed by necrosis and regeneration of the lumen tissue. The bodily fluids are then redirected through the formed anastomosis to relieve disease symptoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2017Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: Lixiao Wang, John J. Chen, Yongxing Zhang, Craig C. Belton, Shannon R. Stroud, Richard Cornelius, Scott Naisbitt
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Patent number: 10363400Abstract: A tube-in-tube assembled parison for preparation of an elongated medical device. The parison if formed by assembling in tube-in-tube fashion a first tube of orientable polymer material and a second tube formed of orientable polymer material disposed around the first tube, with an adhesive tie layer disposed between the first and second tubes. The tubes are brought into contact to form a unitary parison. The adhesive may allow movement between the polymer layers during balloon blowing. The first tube, or the second tube, or both, may have been longitudinally pre-stretched after formation thereof but before assembly of the parison.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Nao Lee, Ying Xiong, Joe Khammoungkhoune, John J. Chen
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Patent number: 10286115Abstract: An expandable medical balloon including an inner layer formed of a poly (ether-block-amide) copolymer and an outer layer formed of a polyamide, the expandable medical balloon having a burst strength of greater than 50,000 psi, and to methods of making and using the same.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: John J. Chen, Daniel J. Horn
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Patent number: 10286191Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a device and a method for treating at least one of hypertension, pulmonary arteries, diabetes, obesity, heart failure, end-stage renal disease, digestive disease, urological disease, cancers, tumors, pain, asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by delivering an effective amount of a formulation to a tissue, In embodiments of the present invention, the formulation may include at least one of a gas, a vapor, a liquid, a solution, an emulsion, or a suspensions of one or more ingredients. In embodiments of the present invention, amounts of the formulation and/or energy are effective to injure or damage tissue, nerves, and nerve endings in order to relieve disease symptoms.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Neurotronic, Inc.Inventors: Lixiao Wang, John J. Chen, Yongxing Zhang
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Publication number: 20190038881Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a device and a method for treating at least one of hypertension, pulmonary arteries, diabetes, obesity, heart failure, end-stage renal disease, digestive disease, urological disease, cancers, tumors, pain, asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by delivering an effective amount of a formulation to a tissue. In embodiments of the present invention, the formulation may include at least one of a gas, a vapor, a liquid, a solution, an emulsion, or a suspensions of one or more ingredients. In embodiments of the present invention, amounts of the formulation and/or energy are effective to injure or damage tissue, nerves, and nerve endings in order to relieve disease symptoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Lixiao Wang, John J. Chen, Yongxing Zhang
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Publication number: 20180015264Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a device and a method for treating at least one of hypertension, pulmonary arteries, diabetes, obesity, heart failure, end-stage renal disease, digestive disease, urological disease, cancers, tumors, pain, asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by delivering an effective amount of a formulation to a tissue, In embodiments of the present invention, the formulation may include at least one of a gas, a vapor, a liquid, a solution, an emulsion, or a suspensions of one or more ingredients. In embodiments of the present invention, amounts of the formulation and/or energy are effective to injure or damage tissue, nerves, and nerve endings in order to relieve disease symptoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2015Publication date: January 18, 2018Inventors: Lixiao Wang, John J. Chen, Yongxing Zhang
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Patent number: 9675414Abstract: An expandable medical balloon for transmitting radiofrequency energy, the medical balloon comprising at least one polymeric electrically-insulating layer and at least one polymeric electrically-conductive layer, wherein at least portions of the polymeric electrically-insulating layer are moveable relative to the polymeric electrically-conductive in said at least one pressurizable expanded state.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2013Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Daniel J. Horn, Robert N. Squire, Adam Joseph Royer, Jeffrey S. Lindquist, John J. Chen
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Patent number: 9586030Abstract: In an assembly of a balloon mounted on a catheter and a stent mounted over the deflated balloon, the balloon is provided with a fugitive plasticizer before the stent is crimped over the balloon. The fugitive plasticizer can soften the balloon surface so that molding of the balloon surface to conform to the crimped stent occurs. The fugitive plasticizer is removed before the assembly is used.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2004Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Raed Rizq, John J. Chen, Stanley Nordin
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Patent number: 9463103Abstract: The present invention provides medical devices comprising nanocomposite materials. By utilizing nanocomposites in the production thereof, the inventive medical devices can be produced with various advantageous properties. Methods of producing the inventive medical devices are also provided. Inasmuch as the inventive devices are expected to provide certain advantages in their use, there is also provided a method of medical care including methods of treatment or diagnosis, wherein the inventive devices are brought into therapeutic contact with a body to be treated or diagnosed thereby.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2012Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Edward Parsonage, Daniel J. Horn, John J. Chen, Paul J. Miller, Douglas A. Devens, Jr., Jan Weber
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Publication number: 20160263357Abstract: A tube-in-tube assembled parison for preparation of an elongated medical device. The parison if formed by assembling in tube-in-tube fashion a first tube of orientable polymer material and a second tube formed of orientable polymer material disposed around the first tube, with an adhesive tie layer disposed between the first and second tubes. The tubes are brought into contact to form a unitary parison. The adhesive may allow movement between the polymer layers during balloon blowing. The first tube, or the second tube, or both, may have been longitudinally pre-stretched after formation thereof but before assembly of the parison.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Nao Lee, Ying Xiong, Joe Khammoungkhoune, John J. Chen
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Publication number: 20160262917Abstract: A medical device includes a tubular network of struts including a bioerodible polymer. The tubular network can include a plurality of bands and a plurality of connector struts. Each band can include a plurality of peaks between adjacent band struts. Each band can be connected to one or more adjacent bands by at least two connector struts at a plurality of connector intersections. The bioerodible polymer can include a plurality of polymer chains functionalized with a photo active group.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: JOHN J. CHEN, STEVEN L. KANGAS, YEN-LANE CHEN, HONGXIA ZENG, RAGHAV GOEL