Patents by Inventor Ron Waksman
Ron Waksman 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: 20130116496Abstract: According to another general aspect, an apparatus for irradiating a plurality of renal nerves comprising a guidewire used to lead an elongated catheter in the human body; the enlongated catheter further comprising a plurality of lumens; the plurality of lumens further comprising a source train lumen, a hydraulic pump lumen, a guidewire lumen, and an inflator lumen; the elongated catheter is connected to the guidewire by inserting the guidewire into the guidewire lumen; the elongated catheter contains a source train within the source train lumen; the source train lumen and hydraulic pump lumen are used to push the source train to a renal vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2011Publication date: May 9, 2013Inventor: RON WAKSMAN
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Patent number: 7160238Abstract: Apparatus and method are described for delivery of a treating element, such as a radiation source, through a catheter to a desired site in the vascular system of a patient, such as a coronary artery, for inhibiting the formation of scar tissue such as may occur in restenosis following balloon angioplasty. The apparatus includes an elongated flexible catheter tube having proximal and distal end portions, with a lumen extending therebetween, and a diameter sufficiently small for insertion in to a patient's vascular system. One or more treating elements, such as a capsule or pellet containing radioactive material, is positionable within the lumen and movable between the proximal and distal end portions under the force of liquid flowing through the lumen. A method for using such apparatus, including a method for using such apparatus simultaneously with a balloon angioplasty procedure, is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1999Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignee: Best Vascular, Inc.Inventors: Ron Waksman, Thomas D. Weldon, Richard A. Hillstead, Jonathan J. Rosen, Charles E. Larsen, Ian R. Crocker, Raphael F. Meloul
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Patent number: 7066872Abstract: Apparatus and method are described for delivery of a treating element, such as a radiation source, through a catheter to a desired site in the vascular system of a patient, such as a coronary artery, for inhibiting the formation of scar tissue such as may occur in restenosis following balloon angioplasty. The apparatus includes an elongated flexible catheter tube having proximal and distal end portions, with a lumen extending therebetween, and a diameter sufficiently small for insertion in to a patient's vascular system. One or more treating elements, such as a capsule or pellet containing radioactive material, is positionable within the lumen and movable between the proximal and distal end portions under the force of liquid flowing through the lumen. A method for using such apparatus, including a method for using such apparatus simultaneously with a balloon angioplasty procedure, is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2003Date of Patent: June 27, 2006Assignee: Best Vascular, Inc.Inventors: Ron Waksman, Thomas D. Weldon, Richard A. Hillstead, Jonathan J. Rosen, Charles E. Larsen, Ian R. Crocker, Raphael F. Meloul
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Publication number: 20060089638Abstract: Disclosed herein is a minimally invasive, radio-frequency device and a method for local and regional vascular therapy, more particularly for passivation of atherosclerotic, inflammatory, and/or vulnerable plaque in blood vessels. Radio-frequency devices of the type described herein constitute an important, inexpensive, disposable, minimally invasive approach for passivation or removal of plaques in various parts of the human body, and, as such, have cardiological applications, such as the treatment of coronary atherosclerosis, as well as other applications, such as the treatment occluded blood vessels in the legs and extremities.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2005Publication date: April 27, 2006Inventors: Yuval Carmel, Ron Waksman, Anatoly Shkvarunets
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Patent number: 6994665Abstract: Apparatus and method are described for delivery of a treating element, such as a radiation source, through a catheter to a desired site in the vascular system of a patient, such as a coronary artery, for inhibiting the formation of scar tissue such as may occur in restenosis following balloon angioplasty. The apparatus includes an elongated flexible catheter tube having proximal and distal end portions, with a lumen extending therebetween, and a diameter sufficiently small for insertion in to a patient's vascular system. One or more treating elements, such as a capsule or pellet containing radioactive material, is positionable within the lumen and movable between the proximal and distal end portions under the force of liquid flowing through the lumen. A method for using such apparatus, including a method for using such apparatus simultaneously with a balloon angioplasty procedure, is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2004Date of Patent: February 7, 2006Assignee: Novoste CorporationInventors: Ron Waksman, Thomas D. Weldon, Richard A. Hillstead, Jonathan J. Rosen, Charles E. Larsen, Ian R. Crocker, Raphael F. Meloul
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Patent number: 6821242Abstract: Apparatus and method are described for delivery of a treating element, such as a radiation source, through a catheter to a desired site in the vascular system of a patient, such as a coronary artery, for inhibiting the formation of scar tissue such as may occur in restenosis following balloon angioplasty. The apparatus includes an elongated flexible catheter tube having proximal and distal end portions, with a lumen extending therebetween, and a diameter sufficiently small for insertion in to a patient's vascular system. One or more treating elements, such as a capsule or pellet containing radioactive material, is positionable within the lumen and movable between the proximal and distal end portions under the force of liquid flowing through the lumen. A method for using such apparatus, including a method for using such apparatus simultaneously with a balloon angioplasty procedure, is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1999Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Assignee: Novoste CorporationInventors: Ron Waksman, Thomas D. Weldon, Ian R. Crocker
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Publication number: 20040192999Abstract: Apparatus and method are described for delivery of a treating element, such as a radiation source, through a catheter to a desired site in the vascular system of a patient, such as a coronary artery, for inhibiting the formation of scar tissue such as may occur in restenosis following balloon angioplasty. The apparatus includes an elongated flexible catheter tube having proximal and distal end portions, with a lumen extending therebetween, and a diameter sufficiently small for insertion in to a patient's vascular system. One or more treating elements, such as a capsule or pellet containing radioactive material, is positionable within the lumen and movable between the proximal and distal end portions under the force of liquid flowing through the lumen. A method for using such apparatus, including a method for using such apparatus simultaneously with a balloon angioplasty procedure, is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2004Publication date: September 30, 2004Applicant: Novoste CorporationInventors: Ron Waksman, Thomas D. Weldon, Richard A. Hillstead, Jonathan J. Rosen, Charles E. Larsen, Ian R. Crocker, Raphael F. Meloul
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Publication number: 20030229259Abstract: Apparatus and method are described for delivery of a treating element, such as a radiation source, through a catheter to a desired site in the vascular system of a patient, such as a coronary artery, for inhibiting the formation of scar tissue such as may occur in restenosis following balloon angioplasty. The apparatus includes an elongated flexible catheter tube having proximal and distal end portions, with a lumen extending therebetween, and a diameter sufficiently small for insertion in to a patient's vascular system. One or more treating elements, such as a capsule or pellet containing radioactive material, is positionable within the lumen and movable between the proximal and distal end portions under the force of liquid flowing through the lumen. A method for using such apparatus, including a method for using such apparatus simultaneously with a balloon angioplasty procedure, is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2003Publication date: December 11, 2003Applicant: Novoste CorporationInventors: Ron Waksman, Thomas D. Weldon, Richard A. Hillstead, Jonathan J. Rosen, Charles E. Larsen, Ian R. Crocker, Raphael F. Meloul
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Patent number: 6503185Abstract: Apparatus and method are described for delivery of a treating element, such as a radiation source, through a catheter to a desired site in the vascular system of a patient, such as a coronary artery, for inhibiting the formation of scar tissue such as may occur in restenosis following balloon angioplasty. The apparatus includes an elongated flexible catheter tube having proximal and distal end portions, with a lumen extending therebetween, and a diameter sufficiently small for insertion in to a patient's vascular system. One or more treating elements, such as a capsule or pellet containing radioactive material, is positionable within the lumen and movable between the proximal and distal end portions under the force of liquid flowing through the lumen. A method for using such apparatus, including a method for using such apparatus simultaneously with a balloon angioplasty procedure, is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1999Date of Patent: January 7, 2003Assignee: Novoste CorporationInventors: Ron Waksman, Thomas D. Weldon, Richard A. Hillstead, Jonathan J. Rosen, Charles E. Larsen, Ian R. Crocker, Raphael F. Meloul
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Patent number: 6458070Abstract: Apparatus and method are described for delivery of a treating element, such as a radiation source, through a catheter to a desired site in the vascular system of a patient, such as a coronary artery, for inhibiting the formation of scar tissue such as may occur in restenosis following balloon angioplasty. The apparatus includes an elongated flexible catheter tube having proximal and distal end portions, with a lumen extending therebetween, and a diameter sufficiently small for insertion in to a patient's vascular system. One or more treating elements, such as a capsule or pellet containing radioactive material, is positionable within the lumen and movable between the proximal and distal end portions under the force of liquid flowing through the lumen. A method for using such apparatus, including a method for using such apparatus simultaneously with a balloon angioplasty procedure, is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1999Date of Patent: October 1, 2002Assignee: Novoste CorporationInventors: Ron Waksman, Thomas D. Weldon, Richard A. Hillstead, Jonathan J. Rosen, Charles E. Larsen, Ian R. Crocker, Raphael F. Meloul
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Patent number: 6355055Abstract: An endovascular support device adapted for local delivery of a therapeutic agent and for minimizing the rate of restinosis having a cylindrical support body with an inside surface and an opposite outside surface, and at least one layer of pericardial tissue covering at least a portion of at least a selected one of the inside surface or the outside surface of the cylindrical support body. At least one therapeutic agent is disposed on a portion of the support device.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1997Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Assignee: Emory UniversityInventors: Ron Waksman, Spencer B. King, III, Neal A. Scott
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Patent number: 6306074Abstract: Apparatus and method are described for delivery of a treating element, such as a radiation source, through a catheter to a desired site in the intraluminal passageways of a patient, such as a coronary artery, for inhibiting the formation of scar tissue such as may occur in restenosis following balloon angioplasty. The apparatus includes an elongated flexible catheter tube having proximal and distal end portions, with a lumen extending therebetween, and a diameter sufficiently small for insertion in to a patient's intraluminal passageways. One or more treating elements, such as a capsule or pellet containing radioactive material, is positionable within the lumen and movable between the proximal and distal end portions under the force of liquid flowing through the lumen. A method for using such apparatus, including a method for using such apparatus simultaneously with a balloon angioplasty procedure, is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 1999Date of Patent: October 23, 2001Assignees: Novoste Corporation, Emory UniversityInventors: Ron Waksman, Thomas D. Weldon, Raphael F. Meloul, Richard A. Hillstead, Jonathan J. Rosen, George K. Bonnoitt, Jr., David S. Halpern, Charles E. Larsen, Ian R. Crocker
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Patent number: 5899882Abstract: Apparatus and method are described for delivery of a treating element, such as a radiation source, through a catheter to a desired site in the intraluminal passageways of a patient, such as a coronary artery, for inhibiting the formation of scar tissue such as may occur in restenosis following balloon angioplasty. The apparatus includes an elongated flexible catheter tube having proximal and distal end portions, with a lumen extending therebetween, and a diameter sufficiently small for insertion in to a patient's intraluminal passageways. One or more treating elements, such as a capsule or pellet containing radioactive material, is positionable within the lumen and movable between the proximal and distal end portions under the force of liquid flowing through the lumen. A method for using such apparatus, including a method for using such apparatus simultaneously with a balloon angioplasty procedure, is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 1996Date of Patent: May 4, 1999Assignees: Novoste Corporation, Emory UniversityInventors: Ron Waksman, Thomas D. Weldon, Raphael F. Meloul, Richard A. Hillstead, Jonathan J. Rosen, George K. Bonnoitt, Jr., David S. Halpern, Charles E. Larsen, Ian R. Crocker
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Patent number: 5683345Abstract: Apparatus and method are described for delivery of a treating element, such as a radiation source, through a catheter to a desired site in the vascular system of a patient, such as a coronary artery, for inhibiting the formation of scar tissue such as may occur in restenosis following balloon angioplasty. The apparatus includes an elongated flexible catheter tube having proximal and distal end portions, with a lumen extending therebetween, and a diameter sufficiently small for insertion in to a patient's vascular system. One or more treating elements, such as a capsule or pellet containing radioactive material, is positionable within the lumen and movable between the proximal and distal end portions under the force of liquid flowing through the lumen. A method for using such apparatus, including a method for using such apparatus simultaneously with a balloon angioplasty procedure, is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 1994Date of Patent: November 4, 1997Assignee: Novoste CorporationInventors: Ron Waksman, Thomas D. Weldon, Richard A. Hillstead, Jonathan J. Rosen, Charles E. Larsen, Ian R. Crocker, Raphael F. Meloul