Patents by Inventor Keith M. Flury
Keith M. Flury 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: 20230240872Abstract: Controlled deployable medical devices that are retained inside a body passage and in one particular application to vascular devices used in repairing arterial dilations, e.g., aneurysms. Such devices can be adjusted during deployment, thereby allowing at least one of a longitudinal or radial re-positioning, resulting in precise alignment of the device to an implant target site.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Edward H. Cully, Keith M. Flury, Michelle L. Gendron, Stanislaw L. Zukowski
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Patent number: 11628079Abstract: Controlled deployable medical devices that are retained inside a body passage and in one particular application to vascular devices used in repairing arterial dilations, e.g., aneurysms. Such devices can be adjusted during deployment, thereby allowing at least one of a longitudinal or radial re-positioning, resulting in precise alignment of the device to an implant target site.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Inventors: Edward H. Cully, Keith M. Flury, Michelle L. Gendron, Stanislaw L. Zukowski
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Patent number: 10905576Abstract: Controlled deployable medical devices that are retained inside a body passage and in one particular application to vascular devices used in repairing arterial dilations, e.g., aneurysms. Such devices can be adjusted during deployment, thereby allowing at least one of a longitudinal or radial re-positioning, resulting in precise alignment of the device to an implant target site.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Inventors: Stanislaw L. Zukowski, Edward H. Cully, Keith M. Flury, Michelle L. Gendron, Patrick S. Young
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Publication number: 20190282356Abstract: A self-expanding stent-graft provided in a diametrically compacted state for implantation and retained preferably by a constraining sheath, useful for the temporary or permanent repair of injured, partially or entirely transected body conduits including blood vessels. It may be used under direct visualization to quickly stop or substantially reduce loss of blood from such damaged vessels and to quickly re-establish perfusion distal to the injury site. The device would typically be implanted under emergency room conditions but also be used in field situations by trained medical technicians. After an end of the device is inserted into a blood vessel through the injury access, deployment preferably initiates from the device end in a direction moving toward the middle of the length of the device by directionally releasing the constraining sheath.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Edward H. Cully, Jeffrey B. Duncan, Keith M. Flury, Paul D. Goodman, Wayne D. House, Vrad W. Levering, Philip P. Off, Daniel M. O'Shea, Michael J. Vonesh, Jason M. Wiersdorf
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Patent number: 10357352Abstract: A self-expanding stent-graft provided in a diametrically compacted state for implantation and retained preferably by a constraining sheath, useful for the temporary or permanent repair of injured, partially or entirely transected body conduits including blood vessels. It may be used under direct visualization to quickly stop or substantially reduce loss of blood from such damaged vessels and to quickly re-establish perfusion distal to the injury site. The device would typically be implanted under emergency room conditions but also be used in field situations by trained medical technicians. After an end of the device is inserted into a blood vessel through the injury access, deployment preferably initiates from the device end in a direction moving toward the middle of the length of the device by directionally releasing the constraining sheath.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2016Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Inventors: Edward H. Cully, Jeffrey B. Duncan, Keith M. Flury, Paul D. Goodman, Wayne D. House, Vrad W. Levering, Philip P. Off, Daniel M. O'Shea, Michael J. Vonesh, Jason M. Wiersdorf
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Publication number: 20190192323Abstract: Controlled deployable medical devices that are retained inside a body passage and in one particular application to vascular devices used in repairing arterial dilations, e.g., aneurysms. Such devices can be adjusted during deployment, thereby allowing at least one of a longitudinal or radial re-positioning, resulting in precise alignment of the device to an implant target site.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2019Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Edward H. Cully, Keith M. Flury, Michelle L. Gendron, Stanislaw L. Zukowski
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Patent number: 10219925Abstract: Controlled deployable medical devices that are retained inside a body passage and in one particular application to vascular devices used in repairing arterial dilations, e.g., aneurysms. Such devices can be adjusted during deployment, thereby allowing at least one of a longitudinal or radial re-positioning, resulting in precise alignment of the device to an implant target site.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Inventors: Edward H. Cully, Keith M. Flury, Michelle L. Gendron, Stanislaw L. Zukowski
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Publication number: 20180193178Abstract: Controlled deployable medical devices that are retained inside a body passage and in one particular application to vascular devices used in repairing arterial dilations, e.g., aneurysms. Such devices can be adjusted during deployment, thereby allowing at least one of a longitudinal or radial re-positioning, resulting in precise alignment of the device to an implant target site.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2018Publication date: July 12, 2018Inventors: Stanislaw L. Zukowski, Edward H. Cully, Keith M. Flury, Michelle L. Gendron, Patrick S. Young
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Patent number: 9907683Abstract: Controlled deployable medical devices that are retained inside a body passage and in one particular application to vascular devices used in repairing arterial dilations, e.g., aneurysms. Such devices can be adjusted during deployment, thereby allowing at least one of a longitudinal or radial re-positioning, resulting in precise alignment of the device to an implant target site.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2014Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Inventors: Stanislaw L. Zukowski, Edward H. Cully, Keith M. Flury, Michelle L. Gendron, Patrick S. Young
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Patent number: 9433745Abstract: Puncturing tools that cause an aperture to be pierced through the wall of a guidewire lumen of a catheter shaft at a location at which it is desired to have a guidewire exit the guidewire lumen.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2004Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Inventors: Edward H. Cully, Sherif A. Eskaros, Keith M. Flury, James W. Mann, Benjamin M. Trapp, Michael J. Vonesh
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Publication number: 20160193030Abstract: A self-expanding stent-graft provided in a diametrically compacted state for implantation and retained preferably by a constraining sheath, useful for the temporary or permanent repair of injured, partially or entirely transected body conduits including blood vessels. It may be used under direct visualization to quickly stop or substantially reduce loss of blood from such damaged vessels and to quickly re-establish perfusion distal to the injury site. The device would typically be implanted under emergency room conditions but also be used in field situations by trained medical technicians. After an end of the device is inserted into a blood vessel through the injury access, deployment preferably initiates from the device end in a direction moving toward the middle of the length of the device by directionally releasing the constraining sheath.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2016Publication date: July 7, 2016Inventors: Edward H. Cully, Jeffrey B. Duncan, Keith M. Flury, Paul D. Goodman, Wayne D. House, Vrad W. Levering, Philip P. Off, Daniel M. O'Shea, Michael J. Vonesh, Jason M. Wiersdorf
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Patent number: 9381018Abstract: A self-expanding stent-graft provided in a diametrically compacted state for implantation and retained preferably by a constraining sheath, useful for the temporary or permanent repair of injured, partially or entirely transected body conduits including blood vessels. It may be used under direct visualization to quickly stop or substantially reduce loss of blood from such damaged vessels and to quickly re-establish perfusion distal to the injury site. The device would typically be implanted under emergency room conditions but also be used in field situations by trained medical technicians. After an end of the device is inserted into a blood vessel through the injury access, deployment preferably initiates from the device end in a direction moving toward the middle of the length of the device by directionally releasing the constraining sheath.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2011Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: W. L. GORE & ASSOCIATES, INC.Inventors: Edward H. Cully, Jeffrey B. Duncan, Keith M. Flury, Paul D. Goodman, Wayne D. House, Vrad W. Levering, Philip P. Off, Daniel M. O'Shea, Michael J. Vonesh, Jason M. Wiersdorf
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Patent number: 9375215Abstract: A self-expanding stent-graft provided in a diametrically compacted state for implantation and retained preferably by a constraining sheath, useful for the temporary or permanent repair of injured, partially or entirely transected body conduits including blood vessels. It may be used under direct visualization to quickly stop or substantially reduce loss of blood from such damaged vessels and to quickly re-establish perfusion distal to the injury site. The device would typically be implanted under emergency room conditions but also be used in field situations by trained medical technicians. After an end of the device is inserted into a blood vessel through the injury access, deployment preferably initiates from the device end in a direction moving toward the middle of the length of the device by directionally releasing the constraining sheath.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2007Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: W. L. GORE & ASSOCIATES, INC.Inventors: Edward H. Cully, Jeffrey B. Duncan, Keith M. Flury, Paul D. Goodman, Wayne D. House, Vrad W. Levering, Philip P. Off, Daniel M. O'Shea, Michael J. Vonesh, Jason M. Wiersdorf
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Patent number: 9119937Abstract: A catheter provided with a guidewire catheter lumen having a thin covering that is easily punctured by a guidewire at virtually any desired point along the catheter length. The thin covering may be integral with the catheter shaft, or may be a separate component that covers only the portion of the catheter shaft immediately adjacent the outer portion of the guidewire lumen, or may be a thin tubular construct that surrounds the entire catheter shaft. The covering is preferably relatively translucent, allowing for good visualization of the location of the end of the guidewire to enable puncturing of the covering at the desired location along the length of the catheter shaft. The covering is also preferably tear resistant at puncture sites. The catheter shaft is preferably made of a material having a color that provides good visibility against an operating field, and more preferably is phosphorescent either entirely or in part.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2011Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Inventors: Joseph R. Armstrong, Edward H. Cully, Keith M. Flury, Michael J. Vonesh
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Publication number: 20150051691Abstract: Controlled deployable medical devices that are retained inside a body passage and in one particular application to vascular devices used in repairing arterial dilations, e.g., aneurysms. Such devices can be adjusted during deployment, thereby allowing at least one of a longitudinal or radial re-positioning, resulting in precise alignment of the device to an implant target site.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Inventors: Stanislaw L. Zukowski, Edward H. Cully, Keith M. Flury, Michelle L. Gendron, Patrick S. Young
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Publication number: 20120283553Abstract: Devices with enhanced visualization in ultrasound imaging are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2012Publication date: November 8, 2012Inventors: Edward H. Cully, Keith M. Flury
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Publication number: 20120283763Abstract: Devices with enhanced visualization in ultrasound imaging are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2012Publication date: November 8, 2012Inventors: Edward H. Cully, Keith M. Flury
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Publication number: 20120283775Abstract: Devices with enhanced visualization in ultrasound imaging are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2012Publication date: November 8, 2012Inventors: Edward H Cully, Keith M. FLURY
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Publication number: 20110276012Abstract: A catheter provided with a guidewire catheter lumen having a thin covering that is easily punctured by a guidewire at virtually any desired point along the catheter length. The thin covering may be integral with the catheter shaft, or may be a separate component that covers only the portion of the catheter shaft immediately adjacent the outer portion of the guidewire lumen, or may be a thin tubular construct that surrounds the entire catheter shaft. The covering is preferably relatively translucent, allowing for good visualization of the location of the end of the guidewire to enable puncturing of the covering at the desired location along the length of the catheter shaft. The covering is also preferably tear resistant at puncture sites. The catheter shaft is preferably made of a material having a color that provides good visibility against an operating field, and more preferably is phosphorescent either entirely or in part.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2011Publication date: November 10, 2011Inventors: JOSEPH R. ARMSTRONG, Edward H. Cully, Keith M. Flury, Michael J. Vonesh
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Publication number: 20110230951Abstract: A self-expanding stent-graft provided in a diametrically compacted state for implantation and retained preferably by a constraining sheath, useful for the temporary or permanent repair of injured, partially or entirely transected body conduits including blood vessels. It may be used under direct visualization to quickly stop or substantially reduce loss of blood from such damaged vessels and to quickly re-establish perfusion distal to the injury site. The device would typically be implanted under emergency room conditions but also be used in field situations by trained medical technicians. After an end of the device is inserted into a blood vessel through the injury access, deployment preferably initiates from the device end in a direction moving toward the middle of the length of the device by directionally releasing the constraining sheath.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Inventors: Edward H. Cully, Jeffrey B. Duncan, Keith M. Flury, Paul D. Goodman, Wayne D. House, Vrad W. Levering, Philip P. Off, Daniel M. O'Shea, Michael J. Vonesh, Jason M. Wiersdorf