Patents by Inventor Jon Becker

Jon Becker 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).

  • Publication number: 20240278245
    Abstract: The assembly includes a docking console and a manifold. The docking console includes a cartridge support surface having a first end and a second end. The manifold has one or more wells defined therein. The docking console further includes a manifold retention bracket to releasably hold the manifold against a fluid cartridge supported on the cartridge support surface at an interface position such that the one or more wells are in fluid communication with the fluid cartridge and a biased seal bar to press the fluid cartridge against the manifold held by the manifold retention bracket. A hydrophilic porous frit disposed within at least one of the wells and is to permit liquid to flow through the outlet aperture but prevent gas from passing through the outlet aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicants: Illumina, Inc., Illumina Cambridge Limited
    Inventors: Bradley Kent DREWS, Gudrun STENGEL, James Christopher BLAKE, Mohammed Kafeel AHAMED, Michael Steven BECKER, Michael Dangelo, Mark J. NIBBE, Daniel L. FULLER, Oliver Jon MILLER
  • Patent number: 7416558
    Abstract: An intravascular stent includes an eluting sheath fabricated from a mesh for controlled release of therapeutic drugs and for delivery of the therapeutic drugs in localized drug therapy in a blood vessel. The eluting sheath is attached to at least a portion of an outside surface area of the stent structure and is fabricated from a mesh designed to neck down in response to a radially outward directed force resulting in the uniform expansion of the stent. The eluting sheath can be loaded with at least one therapeutic drug for the release thereof at a treatment site to facilitate repair of a damaged vessel. The stent has a high degree of flexibility in the longitudinal direction, yet has adequate vessel wall coverage and radial strength sufficient to hold open an artery or other body lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip S. Yip, James Jacobs, Syed Hossainy, Jon Becker, Timothy A. Limon
  • Patent number: 7413574
    Abstract: An intravascular stent includes an eluting sheath fabricated from a mesh for controlled release of therapeutic drugs and for delivery of the therapeutic drugs in localized drug therapy in a blood vessel. The eluting sheath is attached to at least a portion of an outside surface area of the stent structure and is fabricated from a mesh designed to neck down in response to a radially outward directed force resulting in the uniform expansion of the stent. The eluting sheath can be loaded with at least one therapeutic drug for the release thereof at a treatment site to facilitate repair of a damaged vessel. The stent has a high degree of flexibility in the longitudinal direction, yet has adequate vessel wall coverage and radial strength sufficient to hold open an artery or other body lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip S. Yip, James Jacobs, Syed Hossainy, Jon Becker, Timothy A. Limon
  • Patent number: 7273471
    Abstract: A balloon catheter having a balloon with a porous polymer layer and one or more filamentary members which are on or in the porous polymer layer and which form ridges protruding outwardly from a surface of the balloon in the inflated configuration. In a presently preferred embodiment, the balloon has a wingless noninflated configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Edwin Wang, Jon Becker, Florencia Lim
  • Publication number: 20070073383
    Abstract: An intravascular stent includes an eluting sheath fabricated from a mesh for controlled release of therapeutic drugs and for delivery of the therapeutic drugs in localized drug therapy in a blood vessel. The eluting sheath is attached to at least a portion of an outside surface area of the stent structure and is fabricated from a mesh designed to neck down in response to a radially outward directed force resulting in the uniform expansion of the stent. The eluting sheath can be loaded with at least one therapeutic drug for the release thereof at a treatment site to facilitate repair of a damaged vessel. The stent has a high degree of flexibility in the longitudinal direction, yet has adequate vessel wall coverage and radial strength sufficient to hold open an artery or other body lumen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventors: Philip Yip, James Jacobs, Syed Hossainy, Jon Becker, Timothy Limon
  • Publication number: 20060271165
    Abstract: An intravascular stent includes an eluting sheath fabricated from a mesh for controlled release of therapeutic drugs and for delivery of the therapeutic drugs in localized drug therapy in a blood vessel. The eluting sheath is attached to at least a portion of an outside surface area of the stent structure and is fabricated from a mesh designed to neck down in response to a radially outward directed force resulting in the uniform expansion of the stent. The eluting sheath can be loaded with at least one therapeutic drug for the release thereof at a treatment site to facilitate repair of a damaged vessel. The stent has a high degree of flexibility in the longitudinal direction, yet has adequate vessel wall coverage and radial strength sufficient to hold open an artery or other body lumen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Inventors: Philip Yip, James Jacobs, Syed Hossainy, Jon Becker, Timothy Limon
  • Patent number: 7105018
    Abstract: An intravascular stent includes an eluting sheath fabricated from a mesh for controlled release of therapeutic drugs and for delivery of the therapeutic drugs in localized drug therapy in a blood vessel. The eluting sheath is attached to at least a portion of an outside surface area of the stent structure and is fabricated from a mesh designed to neck down in response to a radially outward directed force resulting in the uniform expansion of the stent. The eluting sheath can be loaded with at least one therapeutic drug for the release thereof at a treatment site to facilitate repair of a damaged vessel. The stent has a high degree of flexibility in the longitudinal direction, yet has adequate vessel wall coverage and radial strength sufficient to hold open an artery or other body lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip S. Yip, James Jacobs, Syed Hossainy, Jon Becker, Timothy A. Limon
  • Publication number: 20060075718
    Abstract: Systems and methods for designing and manufacturing customized prefabricated buildings in optimized modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2004
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Inventors: Stuart Borne, Cory Clarke, Jon Becker
  • Patent number: 6652568
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a balloon for an intracorporeal catheter having at least a portion of its walls having radiopaque properties. The balloon is formed of a polymeric material, which has a single wall thickness of at about 0.001 inches to about 0.0125 inches while deflated. The radiopaque portion of the balloon has a thickness of about 0.00025 inches to about 0.012 inches, specifically about 0.002 inches to about 0.003 inches. The balloon is constructed of layers. The radiopaque material may be embedded within the film or deposited on the film to create radiopaque properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon A. Becker, Christopher C. Pfaff
  • Patent number: 6537480
    Abstract: A method of forming a catheter shaft having a flexible section by selective removal of catheter shaft material using laser radiation, and a catheter produced therefrom. The laser radiation is of an ultraviolet wavelength. The catheter shaft is made more flexible without a disadvantageous decrease in column strength by operating the laser in the UV, which allows for machining recess patterns with smooth and repeatable recess surfaces while producing little or no thermal or mechanical effects on the remaining adjacent polymeric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon A. Becker, Richard J. Saunders
  • Patent number: 6165152
    Abstract: A method of forming a catheter shaft having a flexible section by selective removal of catheter shaft material using laser radiation, and a catheter produced therefrom. The laser radiation is of an ultraviolet wavelength. The catheter shaft is made more flexible without a disadvantageous decrease in column strength by operating the laser in the UV, which allows for machining recess patterns with smooth and repeatable recess surfaces while producing little or no thermal or mechanical effects on the remaining adjacent polymeric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon A. Becker, Richard J. Saunders
  • Patent number: 6159140
    Abstract: A radiation delivery catheter which increases the margin of safety and reduces unintended exposure to radiation dosage during delivery thereof to a target area to reduce the likelihood of the development of restenosis. The catheter includes a shaft comprised of radiation shielding material, to shield the patient and staff from unintended radiation exposure. The catheter further includes a treatment section including a reservoir balloon comprised of radiation trans-parent material, which enables predetermined concentrations of radioactivity in the radiation source to permeate therethrough into the target area in a substantially uniform dosage pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems
    Inventors: Joseph P. Loeffler, Eric D. Peterson, Jon A. Becker
  • Patent number: 6122552
    Abstract: An apparatus for positioning a cardiac lead in the vasculature of the heart includes a guide catheter, a sleeve and a guidewire. The guide catheter has an inflatable balloon at its distal end and a central lumen open distally to the exterior of the catheter for injection of dye or advancement of a guidewire through the guide catheter and past its distal end. The guide sleeve replaces the guide catheter once the guidewire is in position so that a lead can be advanced over the guidewire with the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce A. Tockman, Randy W. Westlund, Stuart R. Chastain, Bruce M. Wilson, John A. Greenland, Jon A. Becker
  • Patent number: 5318527
    Abstract: A system for removing an in-place intravascular device such as a catheter or guidewire from a patient's body lumen such as from a coronary artery and advancing a catheter or other similar device through the vascular system until its distal end is located at a desired location within the vascular system. The system includes an exchange catheter, which may be a dilatation catheter, having a flexible strand forming a loop at the distal end of the catheter which is adapted to be disposed about the guidewire or catheter which is in-place within the patient. The loop is tightened about the elongated intraluminal in-place device to be removed so that the catheter can be advanced over the in-place device until the distal end of the catheter is at a desired location within the patient's vasculature. The catheter may be used to perform a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure such as an angioplasty or a replacement device may be advanced through an inner lumen and out the distal end of the catheter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1994
    Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory M. Hyde, Jon A. Becker, Kee S. Lee
  • Patent number: 4382196
    Abstract: A tape transducer comprising an inner conductive strip laminate sandwiched between and totally enclosed by identical outer conductive strip laminates. The inner laminate has an inner conductive strip having opposite sides to which thin dielectric layers are bonded, the layers being electrically charged to form electrets having electrical charges of the same polarity on their outer surfaces. Each outer laminate has a conductive foil with marginal side portions overlying the side edges of the inner laminate and sealed together. The portions of the outer laminates aligned with the inner laminate are capable of simultaneously moving toward and away from the inner laminate for advantageously generating sonic waves in a transmitting mode and for efficiently generating an electrical signal in a receiving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1983
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: G. Kirby Miller, Jon Becker
  • Patent number: 4370182
    Abstract: A method of continuously making a composite tape transducer consisting of the steps of electrically charging dielectric layers on opposite sides of a conductive inner strip to form electrets, applying wider outer laminates symmetrically to opposite sides of the electret-covered inner strip and sealing together the marginal edge portions of the outer laminates to enclose the electret-covered inner strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1983
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: Jon Becker, Kirby G. Miller, Charles F. Burney
  • Patent number: 4344810
    Abstract: Apparatus for continuously producing an elongated composite tape transducer having an inner laminate with a conductive dielectric-covered strip and two outer laminates each with a conductive foil comprises two reels containing the outer laminates and one reel containing an inner laminate, a station for electrically charging the dielectric layers on opposite sides of the inner strip, a mold for applying and sealing the outer laminates to opposite sides of the inner laminate to form the composite transducer, and a mechanism for pulling the three laminates through the apparatus. The lead end of the inner strip is electrically grounded. The charging station has two electrodes connected in parallel to a source of high DC voltage and physically positioned to make electrical contact with the dielectric layers, respectively, on opposite sides of the inner strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1982
    Assignee: GTE Products Corporation
    Inventors: Jon Becker, G. Kirby Miller, Charles F. Burney
  • Patent number: D287622
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1987
    Assignee: Pelton and Crane Company
    Inventors: Ned Landan, Jon A. Becker
  • Patent number: D287624
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1987
    Assignee: Pelton and Crane Company
    Inventors: Ned Landan, Jon Becker, Bobby Miller