Patents by Inventor Kenneth G. Hayes, Jr.

Kenneth G. Hayes, Jr. 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).

  • Use of endovascular hypothermia in organ and/or tissue transplantations
    Patent number: 6692519
    Abstract: Methods for (a) preventing hypoxic damage to a potentially transplantable organ or tissue prior to explanation of that organ or tissue from the body of a mammalian transplant donor and (b) preventing rejection of a transplanted organ or tissue in a human or veterinary transplant recipient. The methods comprise placing a heat exchange apparatus in the vasculature of the donor or recipient and using that heat exchange apparatus to cool at least a portion of the body of the donor or recipient to a temperature below normothermia (e.g. below normothermia and sometimes between about 30° C. and about 36° C.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Radiant Medical, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth G. Hayes, Jr.
  • Use of endovascular hypothermia in organ and/or tissue transplantations
    Patent number: RE46697
    Abstract: Methods for (a) preventing hypoxic damage to a potentially transplantable organ or tissue prior to explanation of that organ or tissue from the body of a mammalian transplant donor and (b) preventing rejection of a transplanted organ or tissue in a human or veterinary transplant recipient. The methods comprise placing a heat exchange apparatus in the vasculature of the donor or recipient and using that heat exchange apparatus to cool at least a portion of the body of the donor or recipient to a temperature below normothermia (e.g. below normothermia and sometimes between about 30° C. and about 36° C.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: ZOLL Circulation, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth G. Hayes, Jr.