Patents by Inventor Steven Waldhauser

Steven Waldhauser 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).

  • Patent number: 8260395
    Abstract: An area of a patient can be mapped with a system operable to identify a plurality of locations and save a plurality of locations of a mapping instrument. The mapping instrument can include one or more electrodes that can sense a voltage that can be correlated to a three dimensional location of the electrode at the time of the sensing or measurement. Therefore, a map of an area or volume can be determined based upon the sensing of the plurality of points without the use of an imaging device. An implantable medical device can then be navigated relative to the mapping data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: H. Toby Markowitz, Mustafa Karamanoglu, Pooja Mehta, Ioana Fleming, David Scanlon, Michael Kryger, Sean Campbell-Massa, Chad Giese, Steven Waldhauser, Peter Zhang, Jeff Jannicke, Phillip Falkner, Don Hefner
  • Publication number: 20090264752
    Abstract: An area of a patient can be mapped with a system operable to identify a plurality of locations and save a plurality of locations of a mapping instrument. The mapping instrument can include one or more electrodes that can sense a voltage that can be correlated to a three dimensional location of the electrode at the time of the sensing or measurement. Therefore, a map of an area or volume can be determined based upon the sensing of the plurality of points without the use of an imaging device. An implantable medical device can then be navigated relative to the mapping data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Inventors: H. Toby Markowitz, Mustafa Karamanoglu, Pooja Mehta, Ioana Fleming, David Scanlon, Michael Kryger, Sean Campbell-Massa, Chad Giese, Steven Waldhauser, Peter Zhang, Jeff Jannicke, Phillip Falkner, Don Hefner
  • Publication number: 20050234507
    Abstract: A medical tool for minimally invasive access to the pericardium or similar internal tissue. The medical tool includes a shaft with jaws disposed on a distal end of the shaft and a mechanism for opening and closing the jaws connected to the proximal end of the shaft. The jaws include needle-like elements that extend from the jaws. A delivery element defining a delivery lumen extends along the tool, parallel and adjacent to the shaft, with a distal end of the delivery element being positioned between the jaws. Moreover, the distal ends of each of the jaws define a semi-circular shape such that when the first and second jaws are closed, a hole through the closed jaws is formed by the semi-circular shapes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Jeff Geske, Steven Waldhauser, Kenneth Gardeski