Patents by Inventor Kayla Eichers

Kayla Eichers 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).

  • Methods, devices and systems for sensing, measuring and/or characterizing vessel and/or lesion compliance and/or elastance changes during vascular procedures
    Patent number: 10335042
    Abstract: The present system is directed in various embodiments to methods, devices and systems for sensing, measuring and evaluating compliance in a bodily conduit. In other embodiments, the methods, devices and systems sense, measure, determine, display and/or interpret compliance in a bodily conduit and/or a lesion within the bodily conduit. In all embodiments, the sensing, measuring, determining, displaying and/or interpreting may occur before, during and/or after a procedure performed within the bodily conduit. An exemplary conduit comprises a blood vessel and an exemplary procedure comprises a vascular procedure such as atherectomy, angioplasty, stent placement and/or biovascular scaffolding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor L. Schoenle, Thomas B. Hoegh, Bruce J. Persson, Kayla Eichers, Matthew Tilstra, Richard C. Mattison, Joseph P. Higgins, Michael J. Grace, Matthew Saterbak, Matthew D. Cambronne, Robert E. Kohler
  • METHODS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR SENSING, MEASURING AND/OR CHARACTERIZING VESSEL AND/OR LESION COMPLIANCE AND/OR ELASTANCE CHANGES DURING VASCULAR PROCEDURES
    Publication number: 20160183807
    Abstract: The present system is directed in various embodiments to methods, devices and systems for sensing, measuring and evaluating compliance in a bodily conduit. In other embodiments, the methods, devices and systems sense, measure, determine, display and/or interpret compliance in a bodily conduit and/or a lesion within the bodily conduit. In all embodiments, the sensing, measuring, determining, displaying and/or interpreting may occur before, during and/or after a procedure performed within the bodily conduit. An exemplary conduit comprises a blood vessel and an exemplary procedure comprises a vascular procedure such as atherectomy, angioplasty, stent placement and/or biovascular scaffolding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Victor L. Schoenle, Thomas B. Hoegh, Bruce J. Persson, Kayla Eichers, Matthew Tilstra, Richard C. Mattison, Joseph P. Higgins, Michael J. Grace, Matthew Saterbak, Matthew D. Cambronne, Robert E. Kohler