Patents by Inventor Jonah Lepak
Jonah Lepak 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: 11744639Abstract: Cardiac tissue ablation catheters including an inflatable and flexible toroidal or spherically shaped balloon disposed at a distal region of an elongate member, a flexible circuit carried by an outer surface of the balloon, the flexible circuit including, a plurality of flexible branches conforming to the radially outer surface of the balloon, each of the plurality of flexible branches including a substrate, a conductive trace carried by the substrate, and an ablation electrode carried by the substrate, the ablation electrode in electrical communication with the conductive trace, and an elongate shaft comprising a guidewire lumen extending in the elongate member and extending from a proximal region of the inflatable balloon to distal region of the inflatable balloon and being disposed within the inflatable balloon, wherein a distal region of the elongate shaft is secured directly or indirectly to the distal region of the inflatable balloon.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: SHIFAMED HOLDINGS LLCInventors: Amr Salahieh, Jonah Lepak, Emma Lepak, Brian D. Brandt, John P. Claude, TOm Saul
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Patent number: 11439298Abstract: Visualization and ablation systems and catheters. The systems can capture a plurality of different 2D images of the patient's anatomy adjacent an expandable member, each of which visualizes at least one part of the patient that is in contact with the expandable membrane, tag each of the plurality of different 2D images with information indicative of the position and orientation of a locational element when each of the plurality of different 2D images was captured, create a patient map, wherein creating the patient map comprises placing each of the plurality of different 2D images at the corresponding tagged position and orientation into a 3D space, and display the patient map.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: John P. Claude, Amr Salahieh, Tom Saul, Jonah Lepak, Adnan Merchant
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Publication number: 20210251681Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an expandable energy delivery assembly adapted to deliver electrical energy to tissue. The assembly includes an elongate device and an expandable portion. The expandable portion includes an inflatable element, a single helical electrode disposed on the inflatable element, and at least one irrigation aperture within the inflatable element. The inflatable element is secured to the elongate device and the single helical electrode makes between about 0.5 and about 1.5 revolutions around the inflatable element. The at least one irrigation aperture is adapted to allow fluid to flow from within the inflatable element to outside the inflatable element.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: Amr Salahieh, Jonah Lepak, Emma Leung, John P. Claude, Tom Saul
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Patent number: 11052226Abstract: Steerable medical devices and methods of use. In some embodiments, the steerable medical devices can be steered bi-directionally. In some embodiments the steerable medical devices include a first flexible tubular member and a second flexible tubular member secured together at a location distal to a steerable portion of the steerable medical device.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Kalila Medical, Inc.Inventors: Amr Salahieh, Jonah Lepak, Emma Lepak, Tom Saul, Jean-Pierre Dueri, Joseph Creagan Trautman, Christopher T. Cheng, Richard Joseph Renati, Colin Mixter, Marc Bitoun
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Patent number: 10933221Abstract: A steering assembly including a handle portion, the handle portion having a first screw with a first helical thread and a second screw with a second helical thread, the first and second threads being in opposite directions, and an actuator with an outer surface adapted to be actuated by a user, the actuator in operable communication with the first and second screws, wherein actuation of the actuator cause axial movement of the first screw in a first direction, and causes axial movement of the second screw in a second direction opposite the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2016Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Kalila Medical, Inc.Inventors: Jonah Lepak, Tom Saul, Michael Conroy
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Patent number: 10736693Abstract: Diagnostic and therapeutic medical devices and methods that include an elongate shaft, a balloon, a plurality of electrodes carried by the balloon, and electronics to electrically connect the electrodes to a proximal end of the shaft. The devices can include a visualization system within the balloon.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Apama Medical, Inc.Inventors: Jonah Lepak, Thomas McGrath, Michael Conroy, Casey Miller
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Publication number: 20200069364Abstract: Cardiac tissue ablation catheters including an inflatable and flexible toroidal or spherically shaped balloon disposed at a distal region of an elongate member, a flexible circuit carried by an outer surface of the balloon, the flexible circuit including, a plurality of flexible branches conforming to the radially outer surface of the balloon, each of the plurality of flexible branches including a substrate, a conductive trace carried by the substrate, and an ablation electrode carried by the substrate, the ablation electrode in electrical communication with the conductive trace, and an elongate shaft comprising a guidewire lumen extending in the elongate member and extending from a proximal region of the inflatable balloon to distal region of the inflatable balloon and being disposed within the inflatable balloon, wherein a distal region of the elongate shaft is secured directly or indirectly to the distal region of the inflatable balloon.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: Amr Salahieh, Jonah Lepak, Emma Lepak, Brian D. Brandt, John P. Claude, Tom Saul
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Publication number: 20190307323Abstract: Visualization and ablation systems and catheters. The systems can capture a plurality of different 2D images of the patient's anatomy adjacent an expandable member, each of which visualizes at least one part of the patient that is in contact with the expandable membrane, tag each of the plurality of different 2D images with information indicative of the position and orientation of a locational element when each of the plurality of different 2D images was captured, create a patient map, wherein creating the patient map comprises placing each of the plurality of different 2D images at the corresponding tagged position and orientation into a 3space, and display the patient map.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: John P. Claude, Amr Salahieh, Tom Saul, Jonah Lepak, Adnan Merchant
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Patent number: 10420537Abstract: Steerable medical devices and methods of use. In some embodiments, the steerable medical devices include a steerable portion with a stiffness that varies along the length of the steerable portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2016Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: Shifamed Holdings, LLCInventors: Amr Salahieh, Jonah Lepak, Emma Lepak, Tom Saul, Jean-Pierre Dueri, Joseph Creagan Trautman, Christopher T. Cheng, Richard Joseph Renati, Colin Mixter, Marc Bitoun
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Patent number: 10349824Abstract: Visualization and ablation systems and catheters. The systems can capture a plurality of different 2D images of the patient's anatomy adjacent an expandable member, each of which visualizes at least one part of the patient that is in contact with the expandable membrane, tag each of the plurality of different 2D images with information indicative of the position and orientation of a locational element when each of the plurality of different 2D images was captured, create a patient map, wherein creating the patient map comprises placing each of the plurality of different 2D images at the corresponding tagged position and orientation into a 3 space, and display the patient map.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Apama Medical, Inc.Inventors: John P. Claude, Jonah Lepak, Adnan Merchant, Amr Salahieh, Tom Saul
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Patent number: 10251700Abstract: Cardiac tissue ablation catheters including an inflatable and flexible toroidal or spherically shaped balloon disposed at a distal region of an elongate member, a flexible circuit carried by an outer surface of the balloon, the flexible circuit including, a plurality of flexible branches conforming to the radially outer surface of the balloon, each of the plurality of flexible branches including a substrate, a conductive trace carried by the substrate, and an ablation electrode carried by the substrate, the ablation electrode in electrical communication with the conductive trace, and an elongate shaft comprising a guidewire lumen extending in the elongate member and extending from a proximal region of the inflatable balloon to distal region of the inflatable balloon and being disposed within the inflatable balloon, wherein a distal region of the elongate shaft is secured directly or indirectly to the distal region of the inflatable balloon.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Shifamed Holdings, LLCInventors: Amr Salahieh, Jonah Lepak, Emma Lepak, Brian D. Brandt, John P. Claude, Tom Saul
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Patent number: 10188832Abstract: Steerable medical delivery devices that have a steerable portion and an external controller. The steerable portion has a first tubular member comprising a flexible polymeric tubular member that comprises a wall of solid material along the steerable portion, the first tubular member configured to preferentially bend, and a second tubular member, wherein one of the first and second tubular members is disposed within the other, wherein the first and second tubular members are permanently axially fixed relative to one another at a fixation location distal to the steerable portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Shifamed Holdings, LLCInventors: Amr Salahieh, Jonah Lepak, Emma Lepak, Tom Saul, Jean-Pierre Dueri, Brice Arnault De La Menardiere, Clayton Baldwin
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Publication number: 20180296798Abstract: A steering assembly including a handle portion, the handle portion having a first screw with a first helical thread and a second screw with a second helical thread, the first and second threads being in opposite directions, and an actuator with an outer surface adapted to be actuated by a user, the actuator in operable communication with the first and second screws, wherein actuation of the actuator cause axial movement of the first screw in a first direction, and causes axial movement of the second screw in a second direction opposite the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2016Publication date: October 18, 2018Applicant: SHIFAMED HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Jonah LEPAK, Tom SAUL, Michael CONROY
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Publication number: 20170333125Abstract: Diagnostic and therapeutic medical devices and methods that include an elongate shaft, a balloon, a plurality of electrodes carried by the balloon, and electronics to electrically connect the electrodes to a proximal end of the shaft. The devices can include a visualization system within the balloon.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2017Publication date: November 23, 2017Inventors: Jonah LEPAK, Thomas MCGRATH, Michael CONROY, Casey MILLER
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Patent number: 9795442Abstract: Cardiac tissue ablation catheters including an inflatable and flexible toroidal or spherically shaped balloon disposed at a distal region of an elongate member, a flexible circuit carried by an outer surface of the balloon, the flexible circuit including, a plurality of flexible branches conforming to the radially outer surface of the balloon, each of the plurality of flexible branches including a substrate, a conductive trace carried by the substrate, and an ablation electrode carried by the substrate, the ablation electrode in electrical communication with the conductive trace, and an elongate shaft comprising a guidewire lumen extending in the elongate member and extending from a proximal region of the inflatable balloon to distal region of the inflatable balloon and being disposed within the inflatable balloon, wherein a distal region of the elongate shaft is secured directly or indirectly to the distal region of the inflatable balloon.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Shifamed Holdings, LLCInventors: Amr Salahieh, Jonah Lepak, Emma Lepak, Brian D. Brandt, John P. Claude, Tom Saul
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Publication number: 20170296266Abstract: Cardiac tissue ablation catheters including an inflatable and flexible toroidal or spherically shaped balloon disposed at a distal region of an elongate member, a flexible circuit carried by an outer surface of the balloon, the flexible circuit including, a plurality of flexible branches conforming to the radially outer surface of the balloon, each of the plurality of flexible branches including a substrate, a conductive trace carried by the substrate, and an ablation electrode carried by the substrate, the ablation electrode in electrical communication with the conductive trace, and an elongate shaft comprising a guidewire lumen extending in the elongate member and extending from a proximal region of the inflatable balloon to distal region of the inflatable balloon and being disposed within the inflatable balloon, wherein a distal region of the elongate shaft is secured directly or indirectly to the distal region of the inflatable balloon.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2017Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventors: Amr SALAHIEH, Jonah LEPAK, Emma LEPAK, Brian D. BRANDT, John P. CLAUDE, Tom SAUL
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Patent number: 9717557Abstract: Cardiac ablation catheters and methods of use. Catheters that include an expandable membrane, an imaging member disposed within the expandable membrane, the imaging member having a field of view, a light source disposed within the expandable member adapted to deliver light towards the field of view of the imaging member, and an electrode comprising an outer conductive layer and inner light absorbing layer disposed between the electrode and the expandable membrane, the inner light absorbing layer adapted to absorb light from the light source and thereby reduce reflection of the light from the outer conductive electrode.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: APAMA MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Amr Salahieh, Jonah Lepak, Emma Leung, Brian D. Brandt, John P. Claude, Claudio Argento, Thilaka Sumanaweera, Zak West
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Publication number: 20170203077Abstract: Steerable medical devices and methods of use. In some embodiments, the steerable medical devices can be steered bi-directionally. In some embodiments the steerable medical devices include a first flexible tubular member and a second flexible tubular member secured together at a location distal to a steerable portion of the steerable medical device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2016Publication date: July 20, 2017Inventors: Amr Salahieh, Jonah Lepak, Emma Lepak, Tom Saul, Jean-Pierre Dueri, Joseph Creagan Trautman, Christopher T. Cheng, Richard Joseph Renati, Colin Mixter, Marc Bitoun
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Publication number: 20170173303Abstract: Steerable medical delivery devices that have a steerable portion and an external controller. The steerable portion has a first tubular member comprising a flexible polymeric tubular member that comprises a wall of solid material along the steerable portion, the first tubular member configured to preferentially bend, and a second tubular member, wherein one of the first and second tubular members is disposed within the other, wherein the first and second tubular members are permanently axially fixed relative to one another at a fixation location distal to the steerable portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2017Publication date: June 22, 2017Inventors: Amr SALAHIEH, Jonah LEPAK, Emma LEPAK, Tom SAUL, Jean-Pierre DUERI, Brice Arnault DE LA MENARDIERE, Clayton BALDWIN
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Publication number: 20170143201Abstract: Visualization and ablation systems and catheters. The systems can capture a plurality of different 2D images of the patient's anatomy adjacent an expandable member, each of which visualizes at least one part of the patient that is in contact with the expandable membrane, tag each of the plurality of different 2D images with information indicative of the position and orientation of a locational element when each of the plurality of different 2D images was captured, create a patient map, wherein creating the patient map comprises placing each of the plurality of different 2D images at the corresponding tagged position and orientation into a 3 space, and display the patient map.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2016Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: John P. CLAUDE, Jonah LEPAK, Adnan MERCHANT, Amr SALAHIEH, Tom SAUL