Patents by Inventor Richard C. Gunderson
Richard C. Gunderson 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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Publication number: 20220257934Abstract: Some embodiments of an electrical stimulation system employ wireless electrode assemblies to provide pacing therapy, defibrillation therapy, or other stimulation therapy. In certain embodiments, the wireless electrode assemblies may include a guide wire channel so that each electrode assembly can be advanced over a guide wire instrument through the endocardium. For example, a distal tip portion of a guide wire instrument can penetrate through the endocardium and into the myocardial wall of a heart chamber, and the electrode assembly may then be advanced over the guide wire and into the heart chamber wall. In such circumstances, the guide wire instrument (and other portions of the delivery system) can be retracted from the heart chamber wall, thereby leaving the electrode assembly embedded in the heart tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: GRAIG L. KVEEN, DOUGLAS R. SAHOLT, ROGER N. HASTINGS, RICHARD C. GUNDERSON
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Patent number: 11338130Abstract: Some embodiments of an electrical stimulation system employ wireless electrode assemblies to provide pacing therapy, defibrillation therapy, or other stimulation therapy. In certain embodiments, the wireless electrode assemblies may include a guide wire channel so that each electrode assembly can be advanced over a guide wire instrument through the endocardium. For example, a distal tip portion of a guide wire instrument can penetrate through the endocardium and into the myocardial wall of a heart chamber, and the electrode assembly may then be advanced over the guide wire and into the heart chamber wall. In such circumstances, the guide wire instrument (and other portions of the delivery system) can be retracted from the heart chamber wall, thereby leaving the electrode assembly embedded in the heart tissue.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Graig L. Kveen, Douglas R. Saholt, Roger N. Hastings, Richard C. Gunderson
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Publication number: 20200060750Abstract: A treatment system includes a fluid cooling supply system for chilling and delivering liquid coolant to a patient. The fluid cooling supply system includes a cooling device and a heat exchanger device. The heat exchanger device is biased to the cooling device and is in fluid communication with a treatment device in a patient. The fluid cooling supply system includes at least one biasing mechanism to provide a given biasing force between the heat exchanger device and the cooling device to effectuate and improve heat transfer. The liquid coolant may be circulated through an energy delivery device positioned in an airway of a patient to preserve tissue. The system is controlled to circulate liquid coolant at a given temperature and pressure for a selected amount of time during pulmonary treatment of a patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2019Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Ryan Kaveckis, Edward S. Harshman, Martin L. Mayse, John Streeter, Kyle True, Richard C. Gunderson
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Publication number: 20190366081Abstract: Some embodiments of an electrical stimulation system employ wireless electrode assemblies to provide pacing therapy, defibrillation therapy, or other stimulation therapy. In certain embodiments, the wireless electrode assemblies may include a guide wire channel so that each electrode assembly can be advanced over a guide wire instrument through the endocardium. For example, a distal tip portion of a guide wire instrument can penetrate through the endocardium and into the myocardial wall of a heart chamber, and the electrode assembly may then be advanced over the guide wire and into the heart chamber wall. In such circumstances, the guide wire instrument (and other portions of the delivery system) can be retracted from the heart chamber wall, thereby leaving the electrode assembly embedded in the heart tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: GRAIG L. KVEEN, DOUGLAS R. SAHOLT, ROGER N. HASTINGS, RICHARD C. GUNDERSON
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Patent number: 10426936Abstract: An intravascular balloon catheter that may include, for example, a first elongate member having a proximal end, an opening at the distal end and a lumen therebetween, a balloon defining a cavity, the balloon having a proximal waist sealingly attached to the first elongate member proximal the distal end, a distal waist, and a tubular portion therebetween, a second elongate member having a proximal end, a distal end and a lumen therebetween, the second elongate member disposed in the first elongate member and sealingly attached to the balloon distal waist, and a stopper attached to the second elongate member and disposed in the balloon cavity distal the distal end of the first elongate member, the stopper having an outer profile that prevents movement of the first elongate member thereover the first elongate member having an inner diameter at the distal end large enough to permit the passage of fluid therethrough over the second elongate member.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2016Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Dominick Godin, John Blix, Derek Wise, Richard C. Gunderson
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Patent number: 10426952Abstract: Some embodiments of an electrical stimulation system employ wireless electrode assemblies to provide pacing therapy, defibrillation therapy, or other stimulation therapy. In certain embodiments, the wireless electrode assemblies may include a guide wire channel so that each electrode assembly can be advanced over a guide wire instrument through the endocardium. For example, a distal tip portion of a guide wire instrument can penetrate through the endocardium and into the myocardial wall of a heart chamber, and the electrode assembly may then be advanced over the guide wire and into the heart chamber wall. In such circumstances, the guide wire instrument (and other portions of the delivery system) can be retracted from the heart chamber wall, thereby leaving the electrode assembly embedded in the heart tissue.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Graig L. Kveen, Douglas R. Saholt, Roger N. Hastings, Richard C. Gunderson
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Patent number: 10368937Abstract: A treatment system includes a fluid cooling supply system for chilling and delivering liquid coolant to a patient. The fluid cooling supply system includes a cooling device and a heat exchanger device. The heat exchanger device is biased to the cooling device and is in fluid communication with a treatment device in a patient. The fluid cooling supply system includes at least one biasing mechanism to provide a given biasing force between the heat exchanger device and the cooling device to effectuate and improve heat transfer. The liquid coolant may be circulated through an energy delivery device positioned in an airway of a patient to preserve tissue. The system is controlled to circulate liquid coolant at a given temperature and pressure for a selected amount of time during pulmonary treatment of a patient.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Nuvaira, Inc.Inventors: Ryan Kaveckis, Edward S. Harshman, Martin L. Mayse, John Streeter, Kyle True, Richard C. Gunderson
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Patent number: 9814572Abstract: A prosthetic heart valve includes a base and a plurality of polymeric leaflets. Each leaflet has a root portion coupled to the base, and each leaflet has an edge portion substantially opposite the root portion and movable relative to the root portion to coapt with a respective edge portion of at least one of the other leaflets of the plurality of leaflets. Each leaflet includes) at least two polymers along at least one portion of the leaflet, and each leaflet has a composition gradient of each of the at least two polymers along at least one portion of the leaflet.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2015Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Peter G. Edelman, Horng-Ban Lin, Scott Fisher, Jeffrey S. Lindquist, Huisun Wang, Richard C. Gunderson
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Patent number: 9737427Abstract: Medical device delivery systems, and related methods and components, are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2015Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventor: Richard C. Gunderson
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Publication number: 20170224983Abstract: Some embodiments of an electrical stimulation system employ wireless electrode assemblies to provide pacing therapy, defibrillation therapy, or other stimulation therapy. In certain embodiments, the wireless electrode assemblies may include a guide wire channel so that each electrode assembly can be advanced over a guide wire instrument through the endocardium. For example, a distal tip portion of a guide wire instrument can penetrate through the endocardium and into the myocardial wall of a heart chamber, and the electrode assembly may then be advanced over the guide wire and into the heart chamber wall. In such circumstances, the guide wire instrument (and other portions of the delivery system) can be retracted from the heart chamber wall, thereby leaving the electrode assembly embedded in the heart tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: GRAIG L. KVEEN, DOUGLAS R. SAHOLT, ROGER N. HASTINGS, RICHARD C. GUNDERSON
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Patent number: 9662487Abstract: Some embodiments of an electrical stimulation system employ wireless electrode assemblies to provide pacing therapy, defibrillation therapy, or other stimulation therapy. In certain embodiments, the wireless electrode assemblies may include a guide wire channel so that each electrode assembly can be advanced over a guide wire instrument through the endocardium. For example, a distal tip portion of a guide wire instrument can penetrate through the endocardium and into the myocardial wall of a heart chamber, and the electrode assembly may then be advanced over the guide wire and into the heart chamber wall. In such circumstances, the guide wire instrument (and other portions of the delivery system) can be retracted from the heart chamber wall, thereby leaving the electrode assembly embedded in the heart tissue.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2016Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Graig L. Kveen, Douglas R. Saholt, Roger N. Hastings, Richard C. Gunderson
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Publication number: 20160310210Abstract: A catheter and handle assembly for use in treating tissue. More specifically, the invention relates to a catheter assembly having an elongate shaft, ablation assembly coupled to one end of the shaft, and a handle coupled to the other end of the shaft. The handle facilitates both axial and circumferential positioning of the ablation assembly via the shaft in an airway, conduit, or vessel for treatment of the tissue. Embodiments include the use of a handle to facilitate the axial and circumferential positioning of the shaft and ablation assembly through and independent of a working channel of a bronchoscope during treatment for pulmonary disease like COPD and asthma.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2014Publication date: October 27, 2016Inventors: Scott Harshman, Richard C. Gunderson, John Streeter, Martin L. Mayse, Mark R. Bilitz, Matt Heidner, Steven P. Mertens, Larry Wales
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Publication number: 20160271376Abstract: An intravascular balloon catheter that may include, for example, a first elongate member having a proximal end, an opening at the distal end and a lumen therebetween, a balloon defining a cavity, the balloon having a proximal waist sealingly attached to the first elongate member proximal the distal end, a distal waist, and a tubular portion therebetween, a second elongate member having a proximal end, a distal end and a lumen therebetween, the second elongate member disposed in the first elongate member and sealingly attached to the balloon distal waist, and a stopper attached to the second elongate member and disposed in the balloon cavity distal the distal end of the first elongate member, the stopper having an outer profile that prevents movement of the first elongate member thereover the first elongate member having an inner diameter at the distal end large enough to permit the passage of fluid therethrough over the second elongate member.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Dominick Godin, John Blix, Derek Wise, Richard C. Gunderson
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Publication number: 20160175583Abstract: Some embodiments of an electrical stimulation system employ wireless electrode assemblies to provide pacing therapy, defibrillation therapy, or other stimulation therapy. In certain embodiments, the wireless electrode assemblies may include a guide wire channel so that each electrode assembly can be advanced over a guide wire instrument through the endocardium. For example, a distal tip portion of a guide wire instrument can penetrate through the endocardium and into the myocardial wall of a heart chamber, and the electrode assembly may then be advanced over the guide wire and into the heart chamber wall. In such circumstances, the guide wire instrument (and other portions of the delivery system) can be retracted from the heart chamber wall, thereby leaving the electrode assembly embedded in the heart tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2016Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: GRAIG L. KVEEN, DOUGLAS R. SAHOLT, ROGER N. HASTINGS, RICHARD C. GUNDERSON
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Patent number: 9352133Abstract: An intravascular balloon catheter that may include, for example, a first elongate member having a proximal end, an opening at the distal end and a lumen therebetween, a balloon defining a cavity, the balloon having a proximal waist sealingly attached to the first elongate member proximal the distal end, a distal waist, and a tubular portion therebetween, a second elongate member having a proximal end, a distal end and a lumen therebetween, the second elongate member disposed in the first elongate member and sealingly attached to the balloon distal waist, and a stopper attached to the second elongate member and disposed in the balloon cavity distal the distal end of the first elongate member, the stopper having an outer profile that prevents movement of the first elongate member thereover the first elongate member having an inner diameter at the distal end large enough to permit the passage of fluid therethrough over the second elongate member.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2005Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Dominick Godin, Derek R. Wise, John Blix, Richard C. Gunderson
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Patent number: 9308374Abstract: Some embodiments of an electrical stimulation system employ wireless electrode assemblies to provide pacing therapy, defibrillation therapy, or other stimulation therapy. In certain embodiments, the wireless electrode assemblies may include a guide wire channel so that each electrode assembly can be advanced over a guide wire instrument through the endocardium. For example, a distal tip portion of a guide wire instrument can penetrate through the endocardium and into the myocardial wall of a heart chamber, and the electrode assembly may then be advanced over the guide wire and into the heart chamber wall. In such circumstances, the guide wire instrument (and other portions of the delivery system) can be retracted from the heart chamber wall, thereby leaving the electrode assembly embedded in the heart tissue.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2012Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Graig L. Kveen, Douglas R. Saholt, Roger Hastings, Richard C. Gunderson
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Publication number: 20160022351Abstract: A treatment system includes a fluid cooling supply system for chilling and delivering liquid coolant to a patient. The fluid cooling supply system includes a cooling device and a heat exchanger device. The heat exchanger device is biased to the cooling device and is in fluid communication with a treatment device in a patient. The fluid cooling supply system includes at least one biasing mechanism to provide a given biasing force between the heat exchanger device and the cooling device to effectuate and improve heat transfer. The liquid coolant may be circulated through an energy delivery device positioned in an airway of a patient to preserve tissue. The system is controlled to circulate liquid coolant at a given temperature and pressure for a selected amount of time during pulmonary treatment of a patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicant: Holaira, Inc.Inventors: Ryan Kaveckis, Edward S. Harshman, Martin L. Mayse, John Streeter, Kyle True, Richard C. Gunderson
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Publication number: 20150290008Abstract: Medical device delivery systems, and related methods and components, are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2015Publication date: October 15, 2015Inventor: Richard C. Gunderson
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Patent number: 9084694Abstract: Systems for delivering medical devices, as well as related methods are described.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2005Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Richard Goodin, Richard C. Gunderson, John R. Moberg, Katherine Prindle, John Blix, Robert Burgmeier
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Patent number: 9084692Abstract: Stent delivery systems, clip members for use with stent delivery systems, and methods for making and using the same are disclosed. An example stent delivery system may include an inner shaft having a distal region. A stent may be disposed about the distal region. A deployment sheath may be slidably disposed about the inner shaft. A handle may be coupled to the inner shaft. The handle may include a clip member having a first holding portion and a second holding portion. The inner shaft may extend through the first holding portion and the second holding portion. A holding cuff may be thermally bonded to the inner shaft. The holding cuff may be positioned between the first holding portion and the second holding portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2011Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Dean Hacker, Gerald Grabowski, Corey Tillman, Jason Lind, Richard C. Gunderson