Patents by Inventor Karl Im

Karl Im 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: 20120320179
    Abstract: We provide a device for combining tomographic images with human vision using a partially transparent display to merge the visual outer surface of an object with a simultaneous tomographic image from the interior of the object. The device may be used with various types of image modalities including ultrasound, CT, and MRI. The image captured device and the display may or may not be fixed to each other. If not fixed, the imaging device may provide a compensation device that adjusts the image on the partially transparent display to account for any change in the image capture device orientation or location. Methods for using such a device are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventors: Karl Im, Gary Rosensteel, Frederick Rezaei
  • Publication number: 20080058868
    Abstract: Anchors, anchoring systems, anchor delivery devices, and method of using anchors are described. An anchor may be a flexible anchor having two curved legs that cross in a single turning direction to form a loop, wherein the legs are adapted to penetrate tissue. The ends of the curved legs may be blunt or sharp. The anchor can assume different configurations such as a deployed configuration and a delivery configuration, and the anchor may switch between these different configurations. In operation, the anchor may be inserted into tissue by releasing the anchor from a delivery configuration so that the anchor self-expands into the deployed configuration, so that the legs of the anchor may penetrate the tissue in a curved pathway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventors: John To, Niel Starksen, Mariel Fabro, Nathan Pliam, Karl Im
  • Publication number: 20080051832
    Abstract: Anchors, anchoring systems, anchor delivery devices, and method of using anchors are described. An anchor may be a flexible anchor having two curved legs that cross in a single turning direction to form a loop, wherein the legs are adapted to penetrate tissue. The ends of the curved legs may be blunt or sharp. The anchor can assume different configurations such as a deployed configuration and a delivery configuration, and the anchor may switch between these different configurations. In operation, the anchor may be inserted into tissue by releasing the anchor from a delivery configuration so that the anchor self-expands into the deployed configuration, so that the legs of the anchor may penetrate the tissue in a curved pathway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Inventors: John To, Niel Starksen, Mariel Fabro, Nathan Pliam, Karl Im
  • Publication number: 20080051810
    Abstract: Anchors, anchoring systems, anchor delivery devices, and method of using anchors are described. An anchor may be a flexible anchor having two curved legs that cross in a single turning direction to form a loop, wherein the legs are adapted to penetrate tissue. The ends of the curved legs may be blunt or sharp. The anchor can assume different configurations such as a deployed configuration and a delivery configuration, and the anchor may switch between these different configurations. In operation, the anchor may be inserted into tissue by releasing the anchor from a delivery configuration so that the anchor self-expands into the deployed configuration, so that the legs of the anchor may penetrate the tissue in a curved pathway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Inventors: John To, Niel Starksen, Mariel Fabro, Nathan Pliam, Karl Im
  • Publication number: 20080045982
    Abstract: Anchors, anchoring systems, anchor delivery devices, and method of using anchors are described. An anchor may be a flexible anchor having two curved legs that cross in a single turning direction to form a loop, wherein the legs are adapted to penetrate tissue. The ends of the curved legs may be blunt or sharp. The anchor can assume different configurations such as a deployed configuration and a delivery configuration, and the anchor may switch between these different configurations. In operation, the anchor may be inserted into tissue by releasing the anchor from a delivery configuration so that the anchor self-expands into the deployed configuration, so that the legs of the anchor may penetrate the tissue in a curved pathway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Inventors: John To, Niel Starksen, Mariel Fabro, Nathan Pliam, Karl Im
  • Publication number: 20080045983
    Abstract: Anchors, anchoring systems, anchor delivery devices, and method of using anchors are described. An anchor may be a flexible anchor having two curved legs that cross in a single turning direction to form a loop, wherein the legs are adapted to penetrate tissue. The ends of the curved legs may be blunt or sharp. The anchor can assume different configurations such as a deployed configuration and a delivery configuration, and the anchor may switch between these different configurations. In operation, the anchor may be inserted into tissue by releasing the anchor from a delivery configuration so that the anchor self-expands into the deployed configuration, so that the legs of the anchor may penetrate the tissue in a curved pathway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Inventors: John To, Niel Starksen, Mariel Fabro, Nathan Pliam, Karl Im
  • Publication number: 20070055206
    Abstract: Described here are devices, methods, and kits for deployment of tissue anchors. In some variations, the devices described here comprise a shaft defining a lumen for housing at least one anchor therein (the anchor having an eyelet) and a mechanism for deploying the anchor distally from the lumen, wherein the inner diameter of the lumen is the same size or smaller than the diameter of the eyelet of the anchor to be disposed therein when the anchor is in an expanded configuration. In some variations, the methods comprise loading an anchor within a lumen of a shaft (where the anchor comprises an eyelet and the shaft has a slot therethrough), passing a linking member through the slot and through the eyelet of the anchor, and deploying the anchor. Other methods comprise loading an anchor within a lumen of a shaft, and deploying the anchor distally from the lumen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2005
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Applicant: Guided Delivery Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: John To, Mariel Fabro, Karl Im
  • Publication number: 20050273138
    Abstract: Anchors, anchoring systems, anchor delivery devices, and method of using anchors are described. An anchor may be a flexible anchor having two curved legs that cross in a single turning direction to form a loop, wherein the legs are adapted to penetrate tissue. The ends of the curved legs may be blunt or sharp. The anchor can assume different configurations such as a deployed configuration and a delivery configuration, and the anchor may switch between these different configurations. In operation, the anchor may be inserted into tissue by releasing the anchor from a delivery configuration so that the anchor self-expands into the deployed configuration, so that the legs of the anchor may penetrate the tissue in a curved pathway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2005
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Applicant: Guided Delivery Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: John To, Niel Starksen, Mariel Fabro, Nathan Pliam, Karl Im