Patents by Inventor Stephen P. Mangin

Stephen P. Mangin 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).

  • Apparatus with visual marker for guiding deployment of implantable prosthesis
    Patent number: 8057533
    Abstract: An apparatus for use by an operator in a cavity of a mammalian body with a scope having a distal face providing a field of view. The apparatus includes a flexible elongate member having a distal extremity adapted for extending into the cavity and a proximal extremity accessible from outside of the mammalian body when the distal extremity is disposed in the cavity. An expandable prosthesis is releaseably secured to the distal extremity of the flexible elongate member. A visual marker capable of being seen by the operator in the field of view is secured to one of the distal extremity of the flexible elongate member and the prosthesis for facilitating placement of the prosthesis in the mammalian body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen P. Mangin, Peter J. Shank