Patents by Inventor John William Carroll

John William Carroll 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).

  • Patent number: 11986207
    Abstract: A tissue-removing catheter for removing tissue in a body lumen includes an elongate body and a tissue-removing element mounted on a distal end portion of the elongate body. The tissue-removing element is configured to remove the tissue as the tissue-removing element is rotated by the elongate body within the body lumen. An inner liner is received within the elongate body. The inner liner defines a guidewire lumen. The inner liner isolates an interior of the guidewire lumen from the elongate body and tissue-removing element such that rotational forces are not transferred from the elongate body and tissue-removing element to the interior of the guidewire lumen when the elongate body and tissue-removing element are rotated during removal of tissue from the body lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC VASCULAR, INC.
    Inventors: Aram Jamous, John Kelly, Matthew Fleming, Colin William Meade, Grainne Teresa Carroll
  • Patent number: 7434428
    Abstract: A portable anti-theft brake pedal locking device for a motor vehicle, comprising a horizontal barrier member, upwardly extending, u-shaped rod shackle engaging members, and a manner of locking the device against removal from beneath existing brake/clutch pedal(s). The manner of locking may be either by a lock integral to the anti-theft device, in the form of a pivoting catching lock member, or by a lock independent of the anti-theft device, such as by a padlock. This portable anti-theft device in its preferred embodiment may be double-locked through use of the lock integral to the anti-theft device, and also secondarily by use of the independent locking padlock. Through the placement of this device beneath the under edge of a brake pedal shaft, the under edge of a clutch pedal shaft when present, against the vehicle floorboard, and locking the device to the brake pedal shaft, a resulting disabling of the operation of such pedals is accomplished by preventing the pedals being depressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Inventor: John William Carroll