Patents by Inventor Steven A. Tyler
Steven A. Tyler 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: 20230087474Abstract: An apparatus and methods for tissue restoration are provided. The apparatus may include a catheter shaft extending from a proximal end to a distal tip, the catheter shaft defining lumens including an inflation lumen and a light fiber lumen, a coated balloon positioned on a translucent distal segment of the catheter shaft proximal to the distal tip in fluid communication with the inflation lumen, the coated distal balloon comprising a translucent material and a coated material on an outer surface of the coated balloon, and a light fiber positioned in the catheter shaft in the light fiber lumen and extending through the translucent distal segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: RB Eugene Hayes, Steven A. Tyler
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Patent number: 11529499Abstract: An apparatus and methods for tissue restoration are provided. The apparatus may include a catheter shaft extending from a proximal end to a distal tip, the catheter shaft defining lumens including an inflation lumen and a light fiber lumen, a coated balloon positioned on a translucent distal segment of the catheter shaft proximal to the distal tip in fluid communication with the inflation lumen, the coated distal balloon comprising a translucent material and a coated material on an outer surface of the coated balloon, and a light fiber positioned in the catheter shaft in the light fiber lumen and extending through the translucent distal segment.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Alucent Biomedical, Inc.Inventors: Rb Eugene Hayes, Steven A Tyler
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Publication number: 20210393404Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and devices for the endovascular repair of cardiac valves, particularly the atrioventricular valves which inhibit back flow of blood from a heart ventricle during contraction. The procedures described herein can be performed with interventional tools, guides and supporting catheters and other equipment introduced to the heart chambers from the patient's arterial or venous vasculature remote from the heart. The interventional tools and other equipment may be introduced percutaneously or may be introduced via a surgical cut down, and then advanced from the remote access site through the vasculature until they reach the heart.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: EVALVE, INC.Inventors: Ted Ketai, Chris Bender, Steven A. Tyler, Troy L. Thornton, Eric A. Goldfarb
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Publication number: 20210146099Abstract: An apparatus and methods for tissue restoration are provided. The apparatus may include a catheter shaft extending from a proximal end to a distal tip, the catheter shaft defining lumens including an inflation lumen and a light fiber lumen, a coated balloon positioned on a translucent distal segment of the catheter shaft proximal to the distal tip in fluid communication with the inflation lumen, the coated distal balloon comprising a translucent material and a coated material on an outer surface of the coated balloon, and a light fiber positioned in the catheter shaft in the light fiber lumen and extending through the translucent distal segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2019Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: RB Eugene HAYES, Steven A TYLER
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Patent number: 10667911Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and devices for the endovascular repair of cardiac valves, particularly the atrioventricular valves which inhibit back flow of blood from a heart ventricle during contraction. The procedures described herein can be performed with interventional tools, guides and supporting catheters and other equipment introduced to the heart chambers from the patient's arterial or venous vasculature remote from the heart. The interventional tools and other equipment may be introduced percutaneously or may be introduced via a surgical cut down, and then advanced from the remote access site through the vasculature until they reach the heart.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: EVALVE, INC.Inventors: Ted Ketai, Chris Bender, Steven A. Tyler, Troy L. Thornton, Eric A. Goldfarb
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Publication number: 20190350710Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and devices for the endovascular repair of cardiac valves, particularly the atrioventricular valves which inhibit back flow of blood from a heart ventricle during contraction. The procedures described herein can be performed with interventional tools, guides and supporting catheters and other equipment introduced to the heart chambers from the patient's arterial or venous vasculature remote from the heart. The interventional tools and other equipment may be introduced percutaneously or may be introduced via a surgical cut down, and then advanced from the remote access site through the vasculature until they reach the heart.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2019Publication date: November 21, 2019Applicant: EVALVE, INC.Inventors: Ted Ketai, Chris Bender, Steven A. Tyler, Troy L. Thornton, Eric A. Goldfarb
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Publication number: 20180250132Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and devices for the endovascular repair of cardiac valves, particularly the atrioventricular valves which inhibit back flow of blood from a heart ventricle during contraction. The procedures described herein can be performed with interventional tools, guides and supporting catheters and other equipment introduced to the heart chambers from the patient's arterial or venous vasculature remote from the heart. The interventional tools and other equipment may be introduced percutaneously or may be introduced via a surgical cut down, and then advanced from the remote access site through the vasculature until they reach the heart.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2018Publication date: September 6, 2018Applicant: Evalve, Inc.Inventors: Ted KETAI, Chris BENDER, Steven A. TYLER, Troy L. THORNTON, Eric A. GOLDFARB
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Publication number: 20160242909Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and devices for the endovascular repair of cardiac valves, particularly the atrioventricular valves which inhibit back flow of blood from a heart ventricle during contraction. The procedures described herein can be performed with interventional tools, guides and supporting catheters and other equipment introduced to the heart chambers from the patient's arterial or venous vasculature remote from the heart. The interventional tools and other equipment may be introduced percutaneously or may be introduced via a surgical cut down, and then advanced from the remote access site through the vasculature until they reach the heart.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2016Publication date: August 25, 2016Applicant: Evalve, Inc.Inventors: Ted KETAI, Chris BENDER, Steven A. TYLER, Troy L. THORNTON, Eric A. GOLDFARB
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Patent number: 9060858Abstract: Disclosed are devices and methods for treating regurgitation through a valve in the heart. The devices can include an expandable, fluid-tight bladder configured to be deployed between valve leaflets of the heart valve. The bladder can include an upper portion that extends into the atrium of the heart; a lower portion that extends into the ventricle of the heart; and a middle portion positionable within the line of valve leaflet coaptation that provides a sealing surface for one or more of the leaflets.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2013Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Evalve, Inc.Inventors: Troy L. Thornton, Eric A. Goldfarb, Kent D. Dell, Jaime E. Sarabia, Steven A. Tyler, Kristin Ellis, Jayanth Chakravarthy
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Publication number: 20130338764Abstract: Disclosed are devices and methods for treating regurgitation through a valve in the heart. The devices can include an expandable, fluid-tight bladder configured to be deployed between valve leaflets of the heart valve. The bladder can include an upper portion that extends into the atrium of the heart; a lower portion that extends into the ventricle of the heart; and a middle portion positionable within the line of valve leaflet coaptation that provides a sealing surface for one or more of the leaflets.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Inventors: Troy L. THORNTON, Eric A. GOLDFARB, Kent D. DELL, Jaime E. SARABIA, Steven A. TYLER, Kristin ELLIS, Jayanth CHAKRAVARTHY
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Publication number: 20130282059Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and devices for the endovascular repair of cardiac valves, particularly the atrioventricular valves which inhibit back flow of blood from a heart ventricle during contraction. The procedures described herein can be performed with interventional tools, guides and supporting catheters and other equipment introduced to the heart chambers from the patient's arterial or venous vasculature remote from the heart. The interventional tools and other equipment may be introduced percutaneously or may be introduced via a surgical cut down, and then advanced from the remote access site through the vasculature until they reach the heart.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: EVALVE, INC.Inventors: Ted KETAI, Chris BENDER, Steven A. TYLER, Troy L. THORNTON, Eric A. GOLDFARB
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Patent number: 8470028Abstract: Disclosed are devices and methods for treating regurgitation through a valve in the heart. The devices can include an expandable, fluid-tight bladder configured to be deployed between valve leaflets of the heart valve. The bladder can include an upper portion that extends into the atrium of the heart; a lower portion that extends into the ventricle of the heart; and a middle portion positionable within the line of valve leaflet coaptation that provides a sealing surface for one or more of the leaflets.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Evalve, Inc.Inventors: Troy L. Thornton, Eric A. Goldfarb, Kent D. Dell, Jaime E. Sarabia, Steven A. Tyler, Kristin Ellis, Jayanth Chakravarthy
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Patent number: 8323327Abstract: A catheter system for implanting an endoprosthesis at a treatment site in a patient's body lumen. The catheter includes an elongated shaft outer member and a stent sheath distal portion and a self-expanding stent radially restrained in a collapsed configuration within the stent sheath distal portion. A balloon catheter dimensioned for relative axial movement within the shaft outer member has an elongated shaft having an inflation lumen and a device receiving lumen. A stent stop secured to the balloon catheter is reversibly radially expandable to deploy from a collapsed to a radially expanded configuration. In the expanded configuration, the stent stop prevents longitudinal displacement of the stent. A balloon is located on a distal shaft section is releasably locked with respect to the shaft outer member and slidably disposed therein in an unlocked configuration.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2010Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Abbott Cardiovascular Shstems Inc.Inventors: Nianjiong Joan Bei, Keif Fitzgerald, Patrick C. Saxton, Zhicheng Lin, Steven A. Tyler, Joanna Lubas
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Publication number: 20110066233Abstract: Disclosed are devices and methods for treating regurgitation through a valve in the heart. The devices can include an expandable, fluid-tight bladder configured to be deployed between valve leaflets of the heart valve. The bladder can include an upper portion that extends into the atrium of the heart; a lower portion that extends into the ventricle of the heart; and a middle portion positionable within the line of valve leaflet coaptation that provides a sealing surface for one or more of the leaflets.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2010Publication date: March 17, 2011Inventors: Troy L. Thornton, Eric A. Goldfarb, Kent D. Dell, Jaime E. Sarabia, Steven A. Tyler, Kristin E. Ellis, Jayanth Chakravarthy
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Publication number: 20110060407Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and devices for the endovascular repair of cardiac valves, particularly the atrioventricular valves which inhibit back flow of blood from a heart ventricle during contraction. The procedures described herein can be performed with interventional tools, guides and supporting catheters and other equipment introduced to the heart chambers from the patient's arterial or venous vasculature remote from the heart. The interventional tools and other equipment may be introduced percutaneously or may be introduced via a surgical cut down, and then advanced from the remote access site through the vasculature until they reach the heart.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2010Publication date: March 10, 2011Inventors: Ted Ketai, Chris Bender, Steven A. Tyler, Troy L. Thornton, Eric A. Goldfarb
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Publication number: 20100331951Abstract: A catheter system and method for implanting an endoprosthesis such as a stent at a treatment site in a patient's body lumen. The catheter provides a complete system for stent delivery, dilatation, and delivery and/or recovery of an expandable device, such as an embolic protection device, adjacent to the treatment site in the body lumen.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicant: ABBOTT CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Nianjiong Joan Bei, Keif Fitzgerald, Patrick C. Saxton, Zhicheng Lin, Steven A. Tyler, Joanna Lubas
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Patent number: 7776080Abstract: A catheter system and method for implanting an endoprosthesis such as a stent at a treatment site in a patient's body lumen. The catheter provides a complete system for stent delivery, dilatation, and delivery and/or recovery of an expandable device, such as an embolic protection device, adjacent to the treatment site in the body lumen.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2007Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Abbott Cardiovascualr Systems Inc.Inventors: Nianjiong Joan Bei, Keif Fitzgerald, Patrick C. Saxton, Zhicheng Lin, Steven A. Tyler, Joanna Lubas
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Publication number: 20080269868Abstract: A catheter system and method for implanting an i such as a stent at a treatment site in a patient's body lumen. The catheter provides a complete system for stent delivery, dilatation, and delivery and/or recovery of an expandable device, such as an embolic protection device, adjacent to the treatment site in the body lumen.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2007Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicant: ABBOTT CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Nianjiong Joan Bei, Keif Fitzgerald, Patrick C. Saxton, Zhicheng Lin, Steven A. Tyler, Joanna Lubas
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Patent number: 6152941Abstract: A surgical handpiece includes a housing having an interior cavity and an exterior surface adapted to be gripped by the hand of a user. A rotary drive mechanism is provided inside of the housing and includes a driven shaft with a passageway extending axially therethrough. A suction connection is provided on the housing as is a suction control mechanism operable between first and second operative positions for preventing suction from being applied to the passageway in the driven shaft when in a first operative position and for connecting suction to the passageway when in a second operative position.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1998Date of Patent: November 28, 2000Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: David M. Himes, Steven A. Tyler, Erik D. Eli, Michael V. Madsen, Matthew J. Curran, Marshal E. Finley