Patents by Inventor Michael Bly

Michael Bly 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: 20240189090
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for the delivery of an implant into the prostatic urethra. Embodiments of delivery systems can include a delivery device for insertion into the patient and a proximal control device for use in controlling release of the implant from the delivery device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: Zenflow, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel Song SICOTTE, Austin Michael BLY, Ben COLLETT-NYE, Shreya MEHTA
  • Patent number: 11998438
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for the delivery of an implant into the prostatic urethra. Embodiments of delivery systems can include a delivery device for insertion into the patient and a proximal control device for use in controlling release of the implant from the delivery device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: ZENFLOW, INC.
    Inventors: Marcel Song Sicotte, Austin Michael Bly, Ben Collett-Nye, Shreya Mehta
  • Publication number: 20240164926
    Abstract: Methods are provided for the delivery of an implant into a body lumen of a patient. The method includes the steps of advancing a delivery device that includes a first tubular member housing an implant, a distal control member slidable within the first tubular member and releasably coupled with a distal portion of the implant, and an elongate grasper member slidable within the first tubular member and releasably coupled with a proximal portion of the implant. The method includes causing relative motion between the elongate grasper member and the first tubular member to expose at least a portion of the implant within the first tubular member, and then releasing the distal portion of the implant from the distal control member and the proximal portion of the implant from the elongate grasper member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Marcel Song Sicotte, Austin Michael Bly, Ben Collett-Nye, Shreya Mehta
  • Patent number: 11903859
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for the delivery of an implant into the prostatic urethra. Embodiments of delivery systems can include a delivery device for insertion into the patient and a proximal control device for use in controlling release of the implant from the delivery device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Zenflow, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel Song Sicotte, Austin Michael Bly, Ben Collett-Nye, Shreya Mehta
  • Publication number: 20240050251
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for the delivery of an implant into the prostatic urethra. Embodiments of delivery systems can include a delivery device for insertion into the patient and a proximal control device for use in controlling release of the implant from the delivery device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Austin Michael Bly, Marcel Song Sicotte, Shreya Mehta, William Martin Belef, Nicholas Damiano
  • Patent number: 11890213
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for the delivery of an implant into the prostatic urethra. Embodiments of delivery systems can include a delivery device for insertion into the patient and a proximal control device for use in controlling release of the implant from the delivery device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: ZENFLOW, INC.
    Inventors: Austin Michael Bly, Cesar Abalos Ico, Shreya Mehta, William Martin Belef, Samuel Allen Scaglione, Marcel Song Sicotte, Khoi Le
  • Patent number: 11813184
    Abstract: Benign prosthetic hyperplasia (BPH) is a non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate gland. Treatment options for BPH include medication, surgery (e.g., removal of enlarged prostate tissue), and minimally invasive procedures (e.g., needle ablation, electrovaporization, thermotherapy, and stent insertion). Minimally invasive procedure is typically the preferred choice if medication is ineffective. Accordingly, disclosed herein are system and method for treating BPH using improved implant and delivery device. Certain embodiments of the delivery device can include: a camming barrel having a first groove at the distal end of the camming barrel; a sheath, located within a lumen of the camming barrel, for storing the implantable device; and a first cam follower coupled to the sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: ZENFLOW, INC.
    Inventors: Marcel Song Sicotte, Shreya Mehta, Austin Michael Bly, Ronald J. Jabba
  • Patent number: 11771575
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for the delivery of an implant into the prostatic urethra. Embodiments of delivery systems can include a delivery device for insertion into the patient and a proximal control device for use in controlling release of the implant from the delivery device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ZENFLOW, INC.
    Inventors: Austin Michael Bly, Marcel Song Sicotte, Shreya Mehta, William Martin Belef, Nicholas Damiano
  • Publication number: 20220110737
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for retrieval of an implant from the prostatic urethra. Embodiments of retrieval systems can include a device for insertion into the patient and a proximal control device for use in grasping a portion of the implant and withdrawing the implant into a lumen of the retrieval system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Shreya Mehta, Aaron M. Weiss, Austin Michael Bly
  • Publication number: 20220079736
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for the delivery of an implant into the prostatic urethra. Embodiments of delivery systems can include a delivery device for insertion into the patient and a proximal control device for use in controlling release of the implant from the delivery device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Marcel Song Sicotte, Austin Michael Bly, Ben Collett-Nye, Shreya Mehta
  • Patent number: 11171891
    Abstract: A packet switch includes an ingress port; queue admission control circuitry connected to the ingress port; one or more egress queues configured to manage packet buffers; and an egress port connected to the packet buffers, wherein the packet buffers are managed such that already queued lower priority packets are discarded from the packet buffers when it is required to drop higher priority packets that should otherwise be accepted in the packet buffers. The queue admission control circuitry can be configured to determine if a packet should be dropped or not, and the queue admission control circuitry communicates to buffer reallocation circuitry that is configured to discard one or more lower priority packets to support enqueuing the higher priority packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Vaibhav Srivastava, Keith Michael Bly
  • Publication number: 20210275335
    Abstract: Benign prosthetic hyperplasia (BPH) is a non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate gland. Treatment options for BPH include medication, surgery (e.g., removal of enlarged prostate tissue), and minimally invasive procedures (e.g., needle ablation, electrovaporization, thermotherapy, and stent insertion). Minimally invasive procedure is typically the preferred choice if medication is ineffective. Accordingly, disclosed herein are system and method for treating BPH using improved implant and delivery device. Certain embodiments of the delivery device can include: a camming barrel having a first groove at the distal end of the camming barrel; a sheath, located within a lumen of the camming barrel, for storing the implantable device; and a first cam follower coupled to the sheath.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Marcel Song Sicotte, Shreya Mehta, Austin Michael Bly, Ronald J. Jabba
  • Patent number: 11096774
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for the delivery of an implant into the prostatic urethra. Embodiments of delivery systems can include a delivery device for insertion into the patient and a proximal control device for use in controlling release of the implant from the delivery device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: ZENFLOW, INC.
    Inventors: Marcel Song Sicotte, Austin Michael Bly, Ben Collett-Nye, Shreya Mehta
  • Publication number: 20210145619
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for the delivery of an implant into the prostatic urethra. Embodiments of delivery systems can include a delivery device for insertion into the patient and a proximal control device for use in controlling release of the implant from the delivery device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Austin Michael Bly, Cesar Abalos Ico, Shreya Mehta, William Martin Belef, Samuel Allen Scaglione, Marcel Song Sicotte, Khoi Le
  • Patent number: 10986025
    Abstract: A packet queueing system includes an ingress port configured to receive packets; queueing logic communicatively coupled to one or more egress queues for transmission via an egress port, wherein the queueing logic is configured to maintain an Acceptable Burst Size (ABS) token bucket which is set to enable absorption of microbursts, and implement a congestion avoidance algorithm to one of randomly drop packets and queue packets, wherein the congestion avoidance algorithm only performs the randomly drop packets responsive to the ABS token bucket being empty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Vaibhav Srivastava, Keith Michael Bly
  • Patent number: 10952885
    Abstract: Benign prosthetic hyperplasia (BPH) is a non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate gland. Treatment options for BPH include medication, surgery (e.g., removal of enlarged prostate tissue), and minimally invasive procedures (e.g., needle ablation, electrovaporization, thermotherapy, and stent insertion). Minimally invasive procedure is typically the preferred choice if medication is ineffective. Accordingly, disclosed herein are system and method for treating BPH using improved implant and delivery device. Certain embodiments of the delivery device can include: a camming barrel having a first groove at the distal end of the camming barrel; a sheath, located within a lumen of the camming barrel, for storing the implantable device; and a first cam follower coupled to the sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: ZENFLOW, INC.
    Inventors: Marcel Song Sicotte, Shreya Mehta, Austin Michael Bly, Ronald J. Jabba
  • Publication number: 20210021545
    Abstract: A packet switch includes an ingress port; queue admission control circuitry connected to the ingress port; one or more egress queues configured to manage packet buffers; and an egress port connected to the packet buffers, wherein the packet buffers are managed such that already queued lower priority packets are discarded from the packet buffers when it is required to drop higher priority packets that should otherwise be accepted in the packet buffers. The queue admission control circuitry can be configured to determine if a packet should be dropped or not, and the queue admission control circuitry communicates to buffer reallocation circuitry that is configured to discard one or more lower priority packets to support enqueuing the higher priority packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Vaibhav Srivastava, Keith Michael Bly
  • Publication number: 20200323618
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for the delivery of an implant into the prostatic urethra. Embodiments of implants are disclosed where the implants can have an elastic main body that is biased towards an at-rest configuration where the body forms multiple expander sections coupled together by interconnect portions. The expander sections can have numerous different shapes and configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Austin Michael Bly, Matthew Chambers, Nicholas Ralph Damiano, Ronald J. Jabba, Shreya Mehta, Marcel Song Sicotte, Aaron M. Weiss
  • Publication number: 20200274811
    Abstract: A packet queueing system includes an ingress port configured to receive packets; queueing logic communicatively coupled to one or more egress queues for transmission via an egress port, wherein the queueing logic is configured to maintain an Acceptable Burst Size (ABS) token bucket which is set to enable absorption of microbursts, and implement a congestion avoidance algorithm to one of randomly drop packets and queue packets, wherein the congestion avoidance algorithm only performs the randomly drop packets responsive to the ABS token bucket being empty.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Vaibhav Srivastava, Keith Michael Bly
  • Publication number: 20200038213
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for the delivery of an implant into the prostatic urethra. Embodiments of delivery systems can include a delivery device for insertion into the patient and a proximal control device for use in controlling release of the implant from the delivery device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Austin Michael Bly, Marcel Song Sicotte, Shreya Mehta, William Martin Belef, Nicholas Damiano