Patents by Inventor Peter Gingras
Peter Gingras 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: 10278751Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a method of manufacturing a tissue-integration device, and a tissue-integration device so produced, the method comprising the steps of wrapping a porous sheet of material around a mandrel in order to create overlapping layers of the porous sheet material, the wrapped mandrel then being placed in a mould in order to apply pressure and heat to the overlapping layers in order to effect the lamination thereof such as to form a device having spaces defined by overlapping pores of the adjacent layers.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2014Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: PROXY BIOMEDICAL LIMITEDInventors: Tony Durkin, Cormac Breathnach, Niall Rooney, Peter Gingras
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Patent number: 10238517Abstract: A gastric constriction device comprises a sheet extending over part of the wall of the stomach. Five bands extend around the stomach to fix the sheet in position relative to the stomach. The lower two bands extend from the first side of the sheet around the stomach only partially towards the second side. These lower two bands are not fixed to the second side. This arrangement results in an unconstricted portion of the stomach. In this manner, the device restricts expansion of the majority of the stomach wall while facilitating expansion of this unconstricted portion. The unconstricted portion is therefore free to expand or bulge outwardly upon ingestion. This expansion may trigger the feeling of satiation due to the presence of the vagal nerves in this portion of the stomach.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2016Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: PROXY BIOMEDICAL LIMITEDInventor: Peter Gingras
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Patent number: 10220114Abstract: Described herein are tissue repair implants comprising at least a first layer of peritoneal membrane. The first layer of peritoneal membrane can be located adjacent to a second layer of peritoneal membrane and can be in direct contact with the second layer of peritoneal membrane. Additional layers (e.g., a third or fourth layer) can be included. Where more than one layer is present, the layers can be affixed to one another. For example, a first layer of peritoneal membrane can be attached to the second layer of peritoneal membrane by an adhesive bond, suture, or staple. One or more of the peritoneal membranes can be non-crosslinked, partially crosslinked, or substantially fully crosslinked. Any of the layers of peritoneal membrane may be attached to a wall (e.g., an interior or exterior wall) of an abdominal tissue by an adhesive, suture, and/or staples.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: PROXY BIOMEDICAL LIMITEDInventors: Peter Gingras, Gabriela Voskerician, Michael F. White
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Patent number: 9937282Abstract: A soft tissue implant comprises a condensed surgical mesh having a plurality of monofilament biocompatible fibers 12. Condensing of the fibers reduces the void space between adjacent fibers 12 in the mesh and reduces the surface area of the fibers 12 available for contact with tissue. Condensation of the fibers 12 may be achieved by applying mechanical pressure, and/or vacuum, and/or heat to the mesh.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2010Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: Proxy Biomedical LimitedInventors: Peter Gingras, Dean King
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Patent number: 9788930Abstract: The present invention features soft tissue implants and methods for making same. The implants can includes a biocompatible film that is rendered porous due to the inclusion of uniformly or non-uniformly patterned cells, and the film has a thickness of less than about 0.015 inches in the event the starting material is non-porous and less than about 0.035 inches in the event the starting material is a microporous film. Multi-film implants can also be made.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2013Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Proxy Biomedical LimitedInventor: Peter Gingras
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Patent number: 9750594Abstract: The present invention features soft tissue implants comprising major and minor struts and methods for making same. The implants can includes a biocompatible film that is rendered porous due to the inclusion of uniformly or non-uniformly patterned cells, and the film has a thickness of less than about 0.015 inches in the event the starting material is non-porous and less than about 0.035 inches in the event the starting material is a microporous film. Multi-film implants can also be made.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2013Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: Proxy Biomedical LimitedInventors: Peter Gingras, Dean King
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Patent number: 9642943Abstract: A tissue scaffold includes a first film having a plurality of cell openings and a second film adjacent the first film and having a plurality of cell openings larger than the cell openings of the first film. The cell openings of the first film interconnect with the cell openings of the second film to define pathways extending through the first and second films.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Proxy Biomedical LimitedInventor: Peter Gingras
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Publication number: 20170035934Abstract: Described herein are tissue repair implants comprising at least a first layer of peritoneal membrane. The first layer of peritoneal membrane can be located adjacent to a second layer of peritoneal membrane and can be in direct contact with the second layer of peritoneal membrane. Additional layers (e.g., a third or fourth layer) can be included. Where more than one layer is present, the layers can be affixed to one another. For example, a first layer of peritoneal membrane can be attached to the second layer of peritoneal membrane by an adhesive bond, suture, or staple. One or more of the peritoneal membranes can be non-crosslinked, partially crosslinked, or substantially fully crosslinked. Any of the layers of peritoneal membrane may be attached to a wall (e.g., an interior or exterior wall) of an abdominal tissue by an adhesive, suture, and/or staples.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2016Publication date: February 9, 2017Inventors: Peter Gingras, Gabriela Voskerician, Michael F. White
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Publication number: 20160324672Abstract: A gastric constriction device (160) comprises a sheet (131) extending over part of the wall of the stomach (24). Five bands (151) extend around the stomach (24) to fix the sheet (131) in position relative to the stomach (24). The lower two bands (151) extend from the first side (152) of the sheet (131) around the stomach (24) only partially towards the second side (153). These lower two bands (151) are not fixed to the second side (153). This arrangement results in an unconstricted portion of the stomach (161). In this manner, the device (160) restricts expansion of the majority of the stomach wall while facilitating expansion of this unconstricted portion (161). The unconstricted portion (161) is therefore free to expand or bulge outwardly upon ingestion. This expansion may trigger the feeling of satiation due to the presence of the vagal nerves in this portion (161) of the stomach (24).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2016Publication date: November 10, 2016Inventor: Peter Gingras
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Patent number: 9468702Abstract: Described herein are tissue repair implants comprising at least a first layer of peritoneal membrane. The first layer of peritoneal membrane can be located adjacent to a second layer of peritoneal membrane and can be in direct contact with the second layer of peritoneal membrane. Additional layers (e.g., a third or fourth layer) can be included. Where more than one layer is present, the layers can be affixed to one another. For example, a first layer of peritoneal membrane can be attached to the second layer of peritoneal membrane by an adhesive bond, suture, or staple. One or more of the peritoneal membranes can be non-crosslinked, partially crosslinked, or substantially fully crosslinked. Any of the layers of peritoneal membrane may be attached to a wall (e.g., an interior or exterior wall) of an abdominal tissue by an adhesive, suture, and/or staples.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2014Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: Proxy Biomedical LimitedInventors: Peter Gingras, Gabriela Voskerician, Michael F. White
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Patent number: 9440007Abstract: A tissue scaffold includes a first film having a plurality of cell openings and a second film adjacent the first film and having a plurality of cell openings larger than the cell openings of the first film. The cell openings of the first film interconnect with the cell openings of the second film to define pathways extending through the first and second films.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Proxy Biomedical LimitedInventor: Peter Gingras
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Publication number: 20160242831Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a method of manufacturing a tissue-integration device, and a tissue-integration device so produced, the method comprising the steps of wrapping a porous sheet of material around a mandrel in order to create overlapping layers of the porous sheet material, the wrapped mandrel then being placed in a mould in order to apply pressure and heat to the overlapping layers in order to effect the lamination thereof such as to form a device having spaces defined by overlapping pores of the adjacent layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2014Publication date: August 25, 2016Applicant: Proxy Biomedical LimitedInventors: Tony DURKIN, Cormac BREATHNACH, Niall ROONEY, Peter GINGRAS
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Publication number: 20150273189Abstract: A method of making a radially expandable fluid delivery device includes providing a tube of biocompatible fluoropolymer material with a predetermined porosity based on an extrusion and expansion forming process, applying a radial expansion force to the tube expanding the tube to a predetermined diameter dimension, and removing the radial expansion force. The tube is radially inelastic while sufficiently pliable to be collapsible and inflatable from a collapsed configuration to an expanded configuration upon introduction of an inflation force, such that the expanded configuration occurs upon inflation to the predetermined diameter dimension. The fluid delivery device is constructed of a microporous, biocompatible fluoropolymer material having a microstructure that can provide a controlled, uniform, low-velocity fluid distribution through the walls of the fluid delivery device to effectively deliver fluid to the treatment site without damaging tissue proximate the walls of the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: ATRIUM MEDICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Steve A. HERWECK, Peter GINGRAS, Paul MARTAKOS, Theodore KARWOSKI
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Publication number: 20140374004Abstract: A tissue scaffold includes a first film having a plurality of cell openings and a second film adjacent the first film and having a plurality of cell openings larger than the cell openings of the first film. The cell openings of the first film interconnect with the cell openings of the second film to define pathways extending through the first and second films.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventor: Peter Gingras
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Publication number: 20140343690Abstract: A tissue scaffold includes a first film having a plurality of cell openings and a second film adjacent the first film and having a plurality of cell openings larger than the cell openings of the first film. The cell openings of the first film interconnect with the cell openings of the second film to define pathways extending through the first and second films.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventor: Peter Gingras
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Patent number: 8796015Abstract: A tissue scaffold includes a first film having a plurality of cell openings and a second film adjacent the first film and having a plurality of cell openings larger than the cell openings of the first film. The cell openings of the first film interconnect with the cell openings of the second film to define pathways extending through the first and second films.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2005Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Proxy Biomedical LimitedInventor: Peter Gingras
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Publication number: 20140207249Abstract: Described herein are tissue repair implants comprising at least a first layer of peritoneal membrane. The first layer of peritoneal membrane can be located adjacent to a second layer of peritoneal membrane and can be in direct contact with the second layer of peritoneal membrane. Additional layers (e.g., a third or fourth layer) can be included. Where more than one layer is present, the layers can be affixed to one another. For example, a first layer of peritoneal membrane can be attached to the second layer of peritoneal membrane by an adhesive bond, suture, or staple. One or more of the peritoneal membranes can be non-crosslinked, partially crosslinked, or substantially fully crosslinked. Any of the layers of peritoneal membrane may be attached to a wall (e.g., an interior or exterior wall) of an abdominal tissue by an adhesive, suture, and/or staples.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Inventors: Peter Gingras, Gabriela Voskerician, Michael F. White
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Publication number: 20140179989Abstract: A gastric constriction device (160) comprises a sheet (131) extending over part of the wall of the stomach (24). Five bands (151) extend around the stomach (24) to fix the sheet (131) in position relative to the stomach (24). The lower two bands (151) extend from the first side (152) of the sheet (131) around the stomach (24) only partially towards the second side (153). These lower two bands (151) are not fixed to the second side (153). This arrangement results in an unconstricted portion of the stomach (161). In this manner, the device (160) restricts expansion of the majority of the stomach wall while facilitating expansion of this unconstricted portion (161). The unconstricted portion (161) is therefore free to expand or bulge outwardly upon ingestion. This expansion may trigger the feeling of satiation due to the presence of the vagal nerves in this portion (161) of the stomach (24).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Inventor: Peter Gingras
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Publication number: 20140178997Abstract: The present invention features soft tissue implants and methods for making same. The implants can includes a biocompatible film that is rendered porous due to the inclusion of uniformly or non-uniformly patterned cells, and the film has a thickness of less than about 0.015 inches in the event the starting material is non-porous and less than about 0.035 inches in the event the starting material is a microporous film. Multi-film implants can also be made.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Inventor: Peter Gingras
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Patent number: 8709096Abstract: Described herein are tissue repair implants comprising at least a first layer of peritoneal membrane. The first layer of peritoneal membrane can be located adjacent to a second layer of peritoneal membrane and can be in direct contact with the second layer of peritoneal membrane. Additional layers (e.g., a third or fourth layer) can be included. Where more than one layer is present, the layers can be affixed to one another. For example, a first layer of peritoneal membrane can be attached to the second layer of peritoneal membrane by an adhesive bond, suture, or staple. One or more of the peritoneal membranes can be non-crosslinked, partially crosslinked, or substantially fully crosslinked. Any of the layers of peritoneal membrane may be attached to a wall (e.g., an interior or exterior wall) of an abdominal tissue by an adhesive, suture, and/or staples.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2009Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Proxy Biomedical LimitedInventors: Peter Gingras, Gabriela Voskerician, Michael F. White