Patents by Inventor Martin Fahy

Martin Fahy 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).

  • Publication number: 20230190381
    Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, assemblies and apparatuses for treatment of hypertension in a patient using renal denervation. The therapeutic assembly includes an energy delivery element. The energy delivery element is configured to provide renal denervation energy to a nerve within a blood vessel of a patient. The therapeutic assembly includes a controller. The controller is coupled to the energy delivery element. The controller is configured to determine that the hypertension in the patient is orthostatic. The controller is configured to apply renal denervation energy to the patient using the energy delivery element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Sandeep Brar, Martin Fahy, Vanessa Debruin, Colleen Gilbert
  • Patent number: 11607275
    Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, assemblies and apparatuses for treatment of hypertension in a patient using renal denervation. The therapeutic assembly includes an energy delivery element. The energy delivery element is configured to provide renal denervation energy to a nerve within a blood vessel of a patient. The therapeutic assembly includes a controller. The controller is coupled to the energy delivery element. The controller is configured to determine that the hypertension in the patient is orthostatic. The controller is configured to apply renal denervation energy to the patient using the energy delivery element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Medtronic Ireland Manufacturing Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Sandeep Brar, Martin Fahy, Vanessa Debruin, Colleen Gilbert
  • Patent number: 11553960
    Abstract: Methods for treating hypertension and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, is directed to methods for therapeutic renal neuromodulation that partially inhibit sympathetic neural activity in renal nerves proximate a renal blood vessel of a human patient having a 24-hour heart rate at or above a median heart rate for a population of hypertensive patients. This reduction in sympathetic neural activity is expected to therapeutically treat one or more conditions associated with hypertension of the patient. Renal sympathetic nerve activity can be modulated, for example, using an intravascularly positioned catheter carrying a neuromodulation assembly, e.g., a neuromodulation assembly configured to use electrically-induced, thermally-induced, and/or chemically-induced approaches to modulate the renal nerves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC ARDIAN LUXEMBOURG S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Michael Bohm, Felix Mahfoud, Sandeep Brar, Douglas Hettrick, Martin Fahy
  • Publication number: 20200367969
    Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, assemblies and apparatuses for treatment of hypertension in a patient using renal denervation. The therapeutic assembly includes an energy delivery element. The energy delivery element is configured to provide renal denervation energy to a nerve within a blood vessel of a patient. The therapeutic assembly includes a controller. The controller is coupled to the energy delivery element. The controller is configured to determine that the hypertension in the patient is orthostatic. The controller is configured to apply renal denervation energy to the patient using the energy delivery element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Sandeep Brar, Martin Fahy, Vanessa Debruin, Colleen Gilbert
  • Publication number: 20200038102
    Abstract: Methods for treating hypertension and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, is directed to methods for therapeutic renal neuromodulation that partially inhibit sympathetic neural activity in renal nerves proximate a renal blood vessel of a human patient having a 24-hour heart rate at or above a median heart rate for a population of hypertensive patients. This reduction in sympathetic neural activity is expected to therapeutically treat one or more conditions associated with hypertension of the patient. Renal sympathetic nerve activity can be modulated, for example, using an intravascularly positioned catheter carrying a neuromodulation assembly, e.g., a neuromodulation assembly configured to use electrically-induced, thermally-induced, and/or chemically-induced approaches to modulate the renal nerves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Bohm, Felix Mahfoud, Sandeep Brar, Douglas Hettrick, Martin Fahy
  • Patent number: 6318787
    Abstract: An automobile accessory for use by a driver at night to filter and dim the view of all headlights ahead as they approach and pass by. This simple easy to use glare visor has an unusual shape comprising a predetermined sloping bottom edge which from a driver's view seated behind the steering wheel follows the relative path of all headlights in the opposite lane. A driver always looks under the bottom edge of this glare visor for an unfiltered normal view ahead while simultaneously receiving a filtered view of all headlights. This glare visor frictionally rotates independently on conventional hinge type clips that easily slide onto and grip a vehicle sun visor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Inventor: Martin Fahy