Patents by Inventor Sandra K. Hathaway

Sandra K. Hathaway 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: 20040215338
    Abstract: The methods and devices for delivering therapeutic agents to abdominal aortic or thoracic aortic aneurysms provide a coated stent graft and methods of using the same. The coated stent graft system 100 comprises a support 20 and graft material 40 attached to the support 20, with a coating 30, 35 including a therapeutic agent disposed on the support 20 and/or the graft material 40. The coated stent graft system 600 can also include a stent graft portion 605 with an agent delivery portion 655 disposed about the stent graft portion 605 and including a therapeutic agent. A stent graft drug delivery system can include an endovascular catheter 710 having a coated region 730 with a therapeutic agent, and a stent graft 705 disposed on the endovascular catheter 710. The endovascular catheter 710 can have a balloon for releasing the therapeutic agent. The therapeutic agent can be injected by endovascular catheter on carrier particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2003
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Inventors: Jeff Elkins, Sandra K. Hathaway, David Tseng, Michel Letort