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).
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Publication number: 20240278245Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2024Publication date: August 22, 2024Applicants: Illumina, Inc., Illumina Cambridge LimitedInventors: 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
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Patent number: 7416558Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 1, 2006Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: Philip S. Yip, James Jacobs, Syed Hossainy, Jon Becker, Timothy A. Limon
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Patent number: 7413574Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 1, 2006Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: Philip S. Yip, James Jacobs, Syed Hossainy, Jon Becker, Timothy A. Limon
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Patent number: 7273471Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 23, 2003Date of Patent: September 25, 2007Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: Edwin Wang, Jon Becker, Florencia Lim
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Publication number: 20070073383Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2006Publication date: March 29, 2007Inventors: Philip Yip, James Jacobs, Syed Hossainy, Jon Becker, Timothy Limon
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Publication number: 20060271165Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2006Publication date: November 30, 2006Inventors: Philip Yip, James Jacobs, Syed Hossainy, Jon Becker, Timothy Limon
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Patent number: 7105018Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 30, 2002Date of Patent: September 12, 2006Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: Philip S. Yip, James Jacobs, Syed Hossainy, Jon Becker, Timothy A. Limon
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Publication number: 20060075718Abstract: Systems and methods for designing and manufacturing customized prefabricated buildings in optimized modules.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2004Publication date: April 13, 2006Inventors: Stuart Borne, Cory Clarke, Jon Becker
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Patent number: 6652568Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 22, 1999Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: Jon A. Becker, Christopher C. Pfaff
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Patent number: 6537480Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 18, 2000Date of Patent: March 25, 2003Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: Jon A. Becker, Richard J. Saunders
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Patent number: 6165152Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 11, 1998Date of Patent: December 26, 2000Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: Jon A. Becker, Richard J. Saunders
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Patent number: 6159140Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 17, 1998Date of Patent: December 12, 2000Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular SystemsInventors: Joseph P. Loeffler, Eric D. Peterson, Jon A. Becker
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Patent number: 6122552Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 3, 1999Date of Patent: September 19, 2000Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.Inventors: Bruce A. Tockman, Randy W. Westlund, Stuart R. Chastain, Bruce M. Wilson, John A. Greenland, Jon A. Becker
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Patent number: 5318527Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 22, 1992Date of Patent: June 7, 1994Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: Gregory M. Hyde, Jon A. Becker, Kee S. Lee
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Patent number: 4382196Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 16, 1981Date of Patent: May 3, 1983Assignee: GTE Products CorporationInventors: G. Kirby Miller, Jon Becker
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Patent number: 4370182Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 17, 1981Date of Patent: January 25, 1983Assignee: GTE Products CorporationInventors: Jon Becker, Kirby G. Miller, Charles F. Burney
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Patent number: 4344810Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 16, 1981Date of Patent: August 17, 1982Assignee: GTE Products CorporationInventors: Jon Becker, G. Kirby Miller, Charles F. Burney
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Patent number: D287622Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 1984Date of Patent: January 6, 1987Assignee: Pelton and Crane CompanyInventors: Ned Landan, Jon A. Becker
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Patent number: D287624Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 1984Date of Patent: January 6, 1987Assignee: Pelton and Crane CompanyInventors: Ned Landan, Jon Becker, Bobby Miller