Patents by Inventor Kevin Leonard Cooper

Kevin Leonard Cooper 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).

  • Bellows medical construct and apparatus and method for using same
    Patent number: 6001117
    Abstract: A medical construct particularly useful as a stent, comprising an axially compressible bellows of a material and dimensions sufficient to provide negligible resistance to flexure transverse to the axis and negligible recoil under compression or expansion along the axis, and apparatus and a method for deploying the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: Indigo Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn Thayer Huxel, Kevin Leonard Cooper, Jie Jenny Yuan, Murty Narayan Vyakarnam
  • Use of a multi-component coil medical construct
    Patent number: 5962007
    Abstract: There is described a process for deploying a medical construct in a body cavity, so as to function for example as a stent in a body lumen. The construct is used by forming a coil from a strand that has an interior and an exterior portion, and thereafter heating while expanding the coil so as to melt only the exterior portion. When that melted portion resolidifies with the coil in the expanded state, the coil's integrity and resistance against forces such as compression is maintained by the unmelted but stretched interior portion, and the expanded shape is maintained by the adhesiveness of the solidified exterior portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Indigo Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Leonard Cooper, Shawn Thayer Huxel, Murty Narayan Vyakarnam, Arindam Datta, Jie Jenny Yuan