Patents by Inventor Joseph Zinter
Joseph Zinter 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: 20240081970Abstract: A medical device for retrieving an inferior vena cava filter from an inferior vena cava having a handle having a distal end, wherein a longitudinal axis is defined thereby; a grasping assembly coupled to the handle, wherein the grasping assembly comprises a grasper for grasping the inferior vena cava filter positioned within the inferior vena cava, and an articulation assembly coupled to the grasping assembly for causing the grasping assembly to move laterally with respect to the longitudinal axis of the handle. Methods of retrieving an inferior vena cava filter from an inferior vena cava are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Cassius Iyad ochoa Chaar, Daniel Rodion Rathbone, Joseph Zinter
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Publication number: 20200093584Abstract: A medical device for retrieving an inferior vena cava filter from an inferior vena cava having a handle having a distal end, wherein a longitudinal axis is defined thereby; a grasping assembly coupled to the handle, wherein the grasping assembly comprises a grasper for grasping the inferior vena cava filter positioned within the inferior vena cava, and an articulation assembly coupled to the grasping assembly for causing the grasping assembly to move laterally with respect to the longitudinal axis of the handle. Methods of retrieving an inferior vena cava filter from an inferior vena cava are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventors: Cassius Iyad ochoa Chaar, Daniel Rodion Rathbone, Joseph Zinter
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Patent number: 10524891Abstract: A medical device for retrieving an inferior vena cava filter from an inferior vena cava having a handle having a distal end, wherein a longitudinal axis is defined thereby; a grasping assembly coupled to the handle, wherein the grasping assembly comprises a grasper for grasping the inferior vena cava filter positioned within the inferior vena cava, and an articulation assembly coupled to the grasping assembly for causing the grasping assembly to move laterally with respect to the longitudinal axis of the handle. Methods of retrieving an inferior vena cava filter from an inferior vena cava are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2015Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Yale UniversityInventors: Cassius Iyad ochoa Chaar, Daniel Rodion Rathbone, Joseph Zinter
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Publication number: 20160066564Abstract: One embodiment of the invention provides a perfusion system including: a first circuit adapted and configured to circulate a first perfusate through a lumen of a small intestine and a second circuit adapted and configured to circulate a second perfusate through one or more blood vessels of the small intestine. Another aspect of the invention provides a method of perfusing at least a portion of a small intestine. The method includes: circulating a first perfusate through a lumen of the small intestine and circulating a second perfusate through a blood vessel of the small intestine.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: John P. Geibel, Joseph Zinter, Manuel Rodriguez-Davalos, Roger Patron-Lozano, Spencer Backus, Andrew Crouch, Brian Loeb, Raja Narayan, Kristi Oki, Natalie Pancer
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Patent number: 8119206Abstract: A method of forming a negative coefficient of thermal expansion particle includes flattening a hollow sphere made of a first material, annealing the flattened hollow sphere at a reference temperature above a predetermined maximum use temperature to set a stress minimum of the flattened hollow sphere, and forming a coating made of a second material on the flattened hollow sphere at the reference temperature, the second material having a lower coefficient of thermal expansion than that of the first material, the negative coefficient of thermal expansion particle characterized by volumetric contraction when heated.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2009Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gareth Geoffrey Hougham, Xiao Hu Liu, S. Jay Chey, Joseph Zinter, Jr., Michael J. Rooks, Brian Richard Sundolf, Jon Alfred Casey
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Patent number: 7823278Abstract: An interposer having one or more hollow electrical contact buttons disposed in a carrier. The interposer is formed by disposing sacrificial posts in vias of the carrier. The electrical contact buttons are formed on the sacrificial posts by a metallizing process in desired pattern using a mask. The sacrificial posts are made of a material that thermally decomposes upon application of heat without altering the carrier or the electrical contact buttons.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2005Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gareth G Hougham, Keith E Fogel, Joanna Rosner, Paul A Lauro, Sherif Goma, Joseph Zinter, Jr.
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Patent number: 7736152Abstract: Methods for fabricating Land Grid Array (LGA) interposer contacts that are both conducting and elastic. Also provided are LGA interposer contacts as produced by the inventive methods. Provided is LGA type which utilizes a pure unfilled elastomer button core that is covered with an electrically-conductive material that is continuous from the top surface to the bottom surface of the button structure. In order to obviate the disadvantages and drawbacks which are presently encountered in the technology pertaining to the fabrication and structure of land grid arrays using electrically-conductive interposer contacts, there is provided both methods and structure for molding elastomer buttons into premetallized LGA carrier sheets, and wherein the non-conductive elastomer buttons are surface-metallized in order to convert them into conductive electrical contacts.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2008Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gareth G. Hougham, Keith E. Fogel, Paul A. Lauro, Joseph Zinter, Jr.
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Patent number: 7648369Abstract: An interposer having one or more hollow electrical contact buttons disposed in a carrier. The interposer is formed by disposing sacrificial posts in vias of the carrier. The electrical contact buttons are formed on the sacrificial posts by a metallizing process in desired pattern using a mask. The sacrificial posts are made of a material that thermally decomposes upon application of heat without altering the carrier or the electrical contact buttons.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2006Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gareth G. Hougham, Keith E. Fogel, Joanna Rosner, Paul A. Lauro, Sherif Goma, Joseph Zinter, Jr.
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Publication number: 20090214780Abstract: A negative coefficient of thermal expansion particle includes a first bilayer having a first bilayer inner layer and a first bilayer outer layer, and a second bilayer having a second bilayer inner layer and a second bilayer outer layer. The first and second bilayers are joined together along perimeters of the first and second bilayer outer layers and first and second bilayer inner layers, respectively. The first bilayer inner layer and the second bilayer inner layer are made of a first material and the first bilayer outer layer and the second bilayer outer layer are made of a second material. The first material has a greater coefficient of thermal expansion than that of the second material.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2009Publication date: August 27, 2009Applicant: International Business MachinesInventors: Gareth Geoffrey Hougham, Xiao Hu Liu, S. Jay Chey, Joseph Zinter, JR., Michael J. Rooks, Brian Richard Sundlof, Jon Alfred Casey
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Patent number: 7579069Abstract: A negative coefficient of thermal expansion particle includes a first bilayer having a first bilayer inner layer and a first bilayer outer layer, and a second bilayer having a second bilayer inner layer and a second bilayer outer layer. The first and second bilayers are joined together along perimeters of the first and second bilayer outer layers and first and second bilayer inner layers, respectively. The first bilayer inner layer and the second bilayer inner layer are made of a first material and the first bilayer outer layer and the second bilayer outer layer are made of a second material. The first material has a greater coefficient of thermal expansion than that of the second material.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2003Date of Patent: August 25, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gareth Geoffrey Hougham, Xiao Hu Liu, S. Jay Chey, James Patrick Doyle, Joseph Zinter, Jr., Michael J. Rooks, Brian Richard Sundlof, Jon Alfred Casey
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Publication number: 20090044405Abstract: An interposer having one or more hollow electrical contact buttons disposed in a carrier. The interposer is formed by disposing sacrificial posts in vias of the carrier. The electrical contact buttons are formed on the sacrificial posts by a metallizing process in desired pattern using a mask. The sacrificial posts are made of a material that thermally decomposes upon application of heat without altering the carrier or the electrical contact buttons.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2008Publication date: February 19, 2009Inventors: Gareth G. Hougham, Keith E. Fogel, Joanna Rosner, Paul A. Lauro, Sherif Goma, Joseph Zinter, JR.
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Publication number: 20090042414Abstract: Methods for fabricating Land Grid Array (LGA) interposer contacts that are both conducting and elastic. Also provided are LGA interposer contacts as produced by the inventive methods. Provided is LGA type which utilizes a pure unfilled elastomer button core that is covered with an electrically-conductive material that is continuous from the top surface to the bottom surface of the button structure. In order to obviate the disadvantages and drawbacks which are presently encountered in the technology pertaining to the fabrication and structure of land grid arrays using electrically-conductive interposer contacts, there is provided both methods and structure for molding elastomer buttons into premetallized LGA carrier sheets, and wherein the non-conductive elastomer buttons are surface-metallized in order to convert them into conductive electrical contacts.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2008Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: International Business MachinesInventors: Gareth G. Hougham, Keith E. Fogel, Paul A. Lauro, Joseph Zinter, JR.
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Patent number: 7479014Abstract: Methods for fabricating Land Grid Array (LGA) interposer contacts that are both conducting and elastic. Also provided are LGA interposer contacts as produced by the inventive methods. Provided is LGA type which utilizes a pure unfilled elastomer button core that is covered with an electrically-conductive material that is continuous from the top surface to the bottom surface of the button structure. In order to obviate the disadvantages and drawbacks which are presently encountered in the technology pertaining to the fabrication and structure of land grid arrays using electrically-conductive interposer contacts, there is provided both methods and structure for molding elastomer buttons into premetallized LGA carrier sheets, and wherein the non-conductive elastomer buttons are surface-metallized in order to convert them into conductive electrical contacts.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2003Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gareth G. Hougham, Keith E. Fogel, Paul A. Lauro, Joseph Zinter, Jr.
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Publication number: 20070087588Abstract: An interposer having one or more hollow electrical contact buttons disposed in a carrier. The interposer is formed by disposing sacrificial posts in vias of the carrier. The electrical contact buttons are formed on the sacrificial posts by a metallizing process in desired pattern using a mask. The sacrificial posts are made of a material that thermally decomposes upon application of heat without altering the carrier or the electrical contact buttons.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2006Publication date: April 19, 2007Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Gareth Hougham, Keith Fogel, Joanna Rosner, Paul Lauro, Sherif Goma, Joseph Zinter
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Patent number: 7137827Abstract: An interposer having one or more hollow electrical contact buttons disposed in a carrier. The interposer is formed by disposing sacrificial posts in vias of the carrier. The electrical contact buttons are formed on the sacrificial posts by a metallizing process in desired pattern using a mask. The sacrificial posts are made of a material that thermally decomposes upon application of heat without altering the carrier or the electrical contact buttons.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2003Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gareth G Hougham, Keith E Fogel, Joanna Rosner, Paul A Lauro, Sherif Goma, Joseph Zinter, Jr.
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Publication number: 20060009050Abstract: An interposer having one or more hollow electrical contact buttons disposed in a carrier. The interposer is formed by disposing sacrificial posts in vias of the carrier. The electrical contact buttons are formed on the sacrificial posts by a metallizing process in desired pattern using a mask. The sacrificial posts are made of a material that thermally decomposes upon application of heat without altering the carrier or the electrical contact buttons.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2005Publication date: January 12, 2006Inventors: Gareth Hougham, Keith Fogel, Joanna Rosner, Paul Lauro, Sherif Goma, Joseph Zinter
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Publication number: 20060003648Abstract: Methods for fabricating Land Grid Array (LGA) interposer contacts that are both conducting and elastic. Also provided are LGA interposer contacts as produced by the inventive methods. Provided is LGA type which utilizes a pure unfilled elastomer button core that is covered with an electrically-conductive material that is continuous from the top surface to the bottom surface of the button structure. In order to obviate the disadvantages and drawbacks which are presently encountered in the technology pertaining to the fabrication and structure of land grid arrays using electrically-conductive interposer contacts, there is provided both methods and structure for molding elastomer buttons into premetallized LGA carrier sheets, and wherein the non-conductive elastomer buttons are surface-metallized in order to convert them into conductive electrical contacts.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2003Publication date: January 5, 2006Inventors: Gareth Hougham, Keith Fogel, Paul Lauro, Joseph Zinter Jr
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Publication number: 20050106902Abstract: An interposer having one or more hollow electrical contact buttons disposed in a carrier. The interposer is formed by disposing sacrificial posts in vias of the carrier. The electrical contact buttons are formed on the sacrificial posts by a metallizing process in desired pattern using a mask. The sacrificial posts are made of a material that thermally decomposes upon application of heat without altering the carrier or the electrical contact buttons.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2003Publication date: May 19, 2005Inventors: Gareth Hougham, Keith Fogel, Joanna Rosner, Paul Lauro, Sherif Goma, Joseph Zinter
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Publication number: 20050100743Abstract: A negative coefficient of thermal expansion particle includes a first bilayer having a first bilayer inner layer and a first bilayer outer layer, and a second bilayer having a second bilayer inner layer and a second bilayer outer layer. The first and second bilayers are joined together along perimeters of the first and second bilayer outer layers and first and second bilayer inner layers, respectively. The first bilayer inner layer and the second bilayer inner layer are made of a first material and the first bilayer outer layer and the second bilayer outer layer are made of a second material. The first material has a greater coefficient of thermal expansion than that of the second material.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2003Publication date: May 12, 2005Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Gareth Hougham, Xiao Liu, S. Chey, James Doyle, Joseph Zinter, Michael Rooks, Brian Sundlof, Jon Casey