Patents by Inventor Kent Harrison
Kent Harrison 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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Patent number: 11432821Abstract: Expandable occlusive plugs and methods of using them are disclosed. The devices generally include a tubular body bearing multiple slits defining leaves, which expand radially outward when the ends of the device are brought toward one another.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2016Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Patrick Haverkost, Joel Groff, Kent Harrison, Joseph Connolly, Gary Pederson, Mary-Claire Anderson, David Raab
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Publication number: 20200362589Abstract: A lock assembly for use in a vehicle includes a key having a key head and a key shaft. The key shaft defines a recess. A lock cylinder defines a slot and a channel. The slot is in communication with a first end of the channel. A switch door is positioned to cover the slot. A light source is positioned at a second end of the channel. The light source is positioned to illuminate through the channel. A sensor is configured to detect the key. The sensor is coupled with the light source. The sensor is configured to actuate the light source based on a location of the key. A luminescent structure is positioned on the key shaft within the recess.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2019Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Stuart C. Salter, Kent Harrison, David Brian Glickman, Paul Kenneth Dellock
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Publication number: 20200079299Abstract: An exemplary vehicle outlet assembly includes, among other things, an outlet mounted to a vehicle, a cover moveable between a covering position where the cover conceals the outlet and an accessing position where the cover reveals the outlet. The assembly further includes at least one side shield that extends transversely from the cover to the outlet when the cover is in the accessing position. An exemplary power providing method includes powering a device through an outlet of a vehicle and illuminating an area associated with the device during the powering using at least one light of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2018Publication date: March 12, 2020Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, Kent Harrison, Annette Lynn Huebner, David Brian Glickman, Paul Kenneth Dellock
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Patent number: 9795195Abstract: A zipper includes a ball portion. The zipper portion further includes a socket portion. The ball portion includes a leading edge, the leading edge composed of a first material having a low coefficient of friction. The ball portion includes a trailing edge and a neck portion, the trailing edge and neck portion composed of a second material. The socket includes a socket opening, the socket opening composed of the first material. The socket includes a socket interior, the socket interior composed of the second material.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Nite Ize, Inc.Inventors: Daniel J. Martinson, Kent Harrison Brightman
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Patent number: 9320525Abstract: A device for occluding a target body lumen, comprises a wire structure defining a wire structure lumen extending therethrough and movable between a reduced diameter insertion configuration and an expanded diameter deployed configuration and a basket structure extending across the wire structure lumen and including therein a cell growth promoting agent to promote cell growth across the wire structure lumen to occlude the target body lumen.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2009Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Aaron Khieu, Daniel James Horn, Anthony C. Vrba, John Blix, Kent Harrison, Timothy J. Ley
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Publication number: 20150374074Abstract: A zipper includes a ball portion. The zipper portion further includes a socket portion. The ball portion includes a leading edge, the leading edge composed of a first material having a low coefficient of friction. The ball portion includes a trailing edge and a neck portion, the trailing edge and neck portion composed of a second material. The socket includes a socket opening, the socket opening composed of the first material. The socket includes a socket interior, the socket interior composed of the second material.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2014Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventors: Daniel J. Martinson, Kent Harrison Brightman
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Patent number: 8646156Abstract: A vacuum press fit zipper assembly designed for watersports apparel and gear and other water related applications. Overmolding construction forms an effective seal around the entire perimeter of the fastener assembly, and a vacuum fit is created between the two mating portions of the zipper assembly.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2013Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Subzipper, Inc.Inventor: Kent Harrison Brightman
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Patent number: 8550089Abstract: A system for delivering therapeutic agent to a target location in a body in accordance with one embodiment is provided comprising a plurality of magnetic particles, each magnetic particle carrying a therapeutic agent, and a magnetic device for attracting the magnetic particles to a target location. The magnetic particles may be delivered by a catheter into a blood vessel upstream from the target location so that they travel toward the target location. A method for delivering therapeutic agent to a target location in a body in accordance with another embodiment comprises providing a plurality of magnetic particles, each magnetic particle carrying a therapeutic agent, placing a magnetic device in a position to attract the magnetic particles to a target location, and allowing the magnetic particles to infuse the target location by the attraction of the magnetic particles to the magnetic device.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2010Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Aiden Flanagan, Kent Harrison, Liliana Atanasoska, David J. Sogard, Liza J. Davis
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Publication number: 20130227825Abstract: A vacuum press fit zipper assembly designed for watersports apparel and gear and other water related applications. Overmolding construction forms an effective seal around the entire perimeter of the fastener assembly, and a vacuum fit is created between the two mating portions of the zipper assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2013Publication date: September 5, 2013Inventor: Kent Harrison Brightman
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Patent number: 8438706Abstract: A vacuum press fit zipper assembly designed for watersports apparel and gear and other water related applications. Overmolding construction forms an effective seal around the entire perimeter of the fastener assembly, and a vacuum fit is created between the two mating portions of the zipper assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2009Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Subzipper, Inc.Inventor: Kent Harrison Brightman
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Patent number: 8386031Abstract: In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides a biodegradable, self-powered medical device for preventing or reducing reperfusion injury, comprising a galvanic cell, the galvanic cell comprising: a first biodegradable electrode member; and a second biodegradable electrode member comprising a biodegradable conductive polymer and an electrode-releasable therapeutic agent, wherein the galvanic cell generates an electric force sufficient to cause the electrode-releasable therapeutic agent to be released from the biodegradable conductive polymer and elute to a target location. The device may further include a reservoir material containing a burst-release therapeutic agent.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2010Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Liliana Atanasoska, Aiden Flanagan, Liza J. Davis, Kent Harrison, David J. Sogard
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Publication number: 20120053517Abstract: Catheter devices having an expandable balloon for delivering a therapeutic agent to a body site. In one aspect, one or more sheaths are disposed around the balloon with the therapeutic agent being disposed within the sheath, being disposed over the sheath, being contained in the space between the sheath and the balloon, or being otherwise associated with the sheath. In another aspect, the balloon includes a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) for drug delivery.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2011Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: John Chen, Raed Rizq, Kent Harrison, Daniel Horn, Gordon Kocur, Tracee Eidenschink, Ben Arcand, Derek Sutermeister, Jay Rassat, Colm McGuiness, Wendy Naimark, Ruth Cheng
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Patent number: 8105017Abstract: The disclosed solid waste pump is a chopper pump, and preferably a chopper pump having a small rated motor and a semi-open impeller design. Particularly, a chopper pump having an impeller, at least one pump-out vane, an end plate, and a back plate including at least one cutting rib is disclosed. The impeller includes a back shroud and cutting vanes sharpened on a first edge extending opposite the back shroud and fixed on a first surface of the back shroud. The at least one pump-out vane is preferably fixed to a second surface of the back shroud opposite the first surface, while the end plate includes a surface adjacent to and facing the first edge of the cutting vanes and at least one internal cutting rib fixed to the end plate surface for shearing operation in combination with the sharpened edge of the cutting vanes of the impeller.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2008Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Vaughan Co., Inc.Inventors: Glenn Robert Dorsch, Kent Harrison Keeran
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Publication number: 20110137155Abstract: Therapeutic agent delivery devices and methods for delivering a therapeutic agent to a target location as well as methods for determining the location of a lesion on a vessel wall are disclosed. Various embodiments disclose an expandable member comprising a drug delivery matrix for selectively delivering a therapeutic agent to a lesion on a vessel wall. The drug delivery matrix may comprise one or more sensors and an electroactive polymer for releasing the therapeutic agent. Other embodiments disclose an expandable member comprising a plurality of radially-expanding flexible walls forming a plurality of channels for selectively delivering therapeutic agent to a target area adjacent one or more of the channels. Detecting a lesion may comprise using a plurality of Hall effect sensors disposed on a distal end of a catheter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2010Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Jan WEBER, Kent HARRISON, Aiden FLANAGAN
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Publication number: 20100331760Abstract: A biodegradable implant for iontophoretic therapeutic agent delivery is provided. The implant comprises a biodegradable battery and at least one biodegradable iontophoresis electrode assembly. The biodegradable battery comprises first and second biodegradable electrodes and a biodegradable polymer electrolyte layer between the first and second biodegradable electrodes. The biodegradable iontophoresis electrode assembly comprises a biodegradable iontophoresis electrode and a charged therapeutic agent. When the biodegradable battery is electrically connected to generate an electric current through the biodegradable iontophoresis electrode assembly, the charged therapeutic agent is delivered by iontophoresis to a target location. The charged therapeutic agent may be a scavenger for reactive oxygen species. The electrical connection of the biodegradable battery may be controlled remotely.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Liliana ATANASOSKA, Aiden FLANAGAN, Kent HARRISON, Liza DAVIS, David SOGARD
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Publication number: 20100331775Abstract: In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides a biodegradable, self-powered medical device for preventing or reducing reperfusion injury, comprising a galvanic cell, the galvanic cell comprising: a first biodegradable electrode member; and a second biodegradable electrode member comprising a biodegradable conductive polymer and an electrode-releasable therapeutic agent, wherein the galvanic cell generates an electric force sufficient to cause the electrode-releasable therapeutic agent to be released from the biodegradable conductive polymer and elute to a target location. The device may further include a reservoir material containing a burst-release therapeutic agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Liliana ATANASOSKA, Aiden FLANAGAN, Liza DAVIS, Kent HARRISON, David SOGARD
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Patent number: 7841550Abstract: A cutting assembly for positioning at the intake end of a centrifugal pump used for pumping liquids and slurries containing solid matter, including various types of refuse, and for chopping the solid matter which may thereafter be processed for disposal is disclosed. The cutting assembly includes an intake end plate having a body defining the opening to allow the passage of material, such as waste water and the like, therethrough. The intake end plate attaches at the intake end of the chopper pump. The assembly also includes at least one, and preferably a plurality of cutter bars projecting from the body of the intake end plate into the opening, and a nut positioned at the intake end and attached to the chopper pump within the opening of the intake end plate.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2007Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Vaughan Co., Inc.Inventors: Glenn Robert Dorsch, Kent Harrison Keeran, Yee Chung Chak
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Publication number: 20100269838Abstract: A system for delivering therapeutic agent to a target location in a body in accordance with one embodiment is provided comprising a plurality of magnetic particles, each magnetic particle carrying a therapeutic agent, and a magnetic device for attracting the magnetic particles to a target location. The magnetic particles may be delivered by a catheter into a blood vessel upstream from the target location so that they travel toward the target location. A method for delivering therapeutic agent to a target location in a body in accordance with another embodiment comprises providing a plurality of magnetic particles, each magnetic particle carrying a therapeutic agent, placing a magnetic device in a position to attract the magnetic particles to a target location, and allowing the magnetic particles to infuse the target location by the attraction of the magnetic particles to the magnetic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2010Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Aiden Flanagan, Kent Harrison, Liliana Atanasoska, David Sogard, Liza Davis
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Publication number: 20100132718Abstract: A device for occluding a target body lumen, comprises a wire structure defining a wire structure lumen extending therethrough and movable between a reduced diameter insertion configuration and an expanded diameter deployed configuration and a basket structure extending across the wire structure lumen and including therein a cell growth promoting agent to promote cell growth across the wire structure lumen to occlude the target body lumen.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2009Publication date: June 3, 2010Inventors: Aaron Khieu, Daniel James Horn, Anthony C. Vrba, John Blix, Kent Harrison, Timothy J. Ley
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Publication number: 20100028136Abstract: The disclosed solid waste pump is a chopper pump, and preferably a chopper pump having a small rated motor and a semi-open impeller design. Particularly, a chopper pump having an impeller, at least one pump-out vane, an end plate, and a back plate including at least one cutting rib is disclosed. The impeller includes a back shroud and cutting vanes sharpened on a first edge extending opposite the back shroud and fixed on a first surface of the back shroud. The at least one pump-out vane is preferably fixed to a second surface of the back shroud opposite the first surface, while the end plate includes a surface adjacent to and facing the first edge of the cutting vanes and at least one internal cutting rib fixed to the end plate surface for shearing operation in combination with the sharpened edge of the cutting vanes of the impeller.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2008Publication date: February 4, 2010Inventors: Glenn Robert Dorsch, Kent Harrison Keeran