Patents by Inventor Stuart Lin

Stuart Lin 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).

  • Extendible stent apparatus
    Patent number: 7118593
    Abstract: The present invention concerns novel stent apparatuses for use in treating lesions at or near the bifurcation point in bifurcated cardiac, coronary, renal, peripheral vascular, gastrointestinal, pulmonary, urinary and neurovascular vessels and brain vessels. More particularly, the invention concerns a stent apparatus with at least one side opening which may further comprise an extendable stent portion laterally extending from the side opening and at least partly in registry with the wall of the side opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Advanced Stent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles J. Davidson, Eric Williams, Gil M. Vardi, Stuart Lin
  • Extendible stent apparatus
    Publication number: 20050010278
    Abstract: The bifurcating double stent apparatus (10) of the present invention comprises a generally cylindrical main stent (12), a generally cylindrical branch stent (15), which are shown as fully dilated in a subject main vessel (8), and a subject branch vessel (7). The main stent (12) is deployed prior to the branch stent (15) which is then aligned with the side opening (16) of the main stent (12), and attached at that location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2004
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Applicant: Advanced Stent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gil Vardi, Charles Davidson, Eric Elam, Stuart Lin
  • Extendible stent apparatus
    Patent number: 6835203
    Abstract: The bifurcating double stent apparatus (10) of the present invention comprises a generally cylindrical main stent (12), a generally cylindrical branch stent (15), which are shown as fully dilated in a subject main vessel (8), and a subject branch vessel (7). The main stent (12) is deployed prior to the branch stent (15) which is then aligned with the side opening (16) of the main stent (12), and attached at that location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: Advanced Stent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gil M. Vardi, Charles J. Davidson, Eric Elam, Stuart Lin
  • Extendible stent apparatus
    Publication number: 20040133268
    Abstract: The present invention concerns novel stent apparatuses for use in treating lesions at or near the bifurcation point in bifurcated cardiac, coronary, renal, peripheral vascular, gastrointestinal, pulmonary, urinary and neurovascular vessels and brain vessels. More particularly, the invention concerns a stent apparatus with at least one side opening which may further comprise an extendable stent portion laterally extending from the side opening and at least partly in registry with the wall of the side opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Applicant: Advanced Stent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles J. Davidson, Eric Williams, Gil M. Vardi, Stuart Lin
  • Extendible stent apparatus
    Patent number: 6706062
    Abstract: The present invention concerns novel stent apparatuses for use in treating lesions at or near the bifurcation point in bifurcated cardiac, coronary, renal, peripheral vascular, gastrointestinal, pulmonary, urinary and neurovascular vessels and brain vessels. More particularly, the invention concerns a stent apparatus with at least one side opening which may further comprise an extendable stent portion laterally extending from the side opening and at least partly in registry with the wall of the side opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Advanced Stent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gil M. Vardi, Charles J. Davidson, Eric Williams, Stuart Lin
  • Extendible stent apparatus
    Publication number: 20020042650
    Abstract: The present invention concerns novel stent apparatuses for use in treating lesions at or near the bifurcation point in bifurcated cardiac, coronary, renal, peripheral vascular, gastrointestinal, pulmonary, urinary and neurovascular vessels and brain vessels. More particularly, the invention concerns a stent apparatus with at least one side opening which may further comprise an extendable stent portion laterally extending from the side opening and at least partly in registry with the wall of the side opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2001
    Publication date: April 11, 2002
    Applicant: Advanced Stent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gil M. Vardi, Charles J. Davidson, Eric Williams, Stuart Lin
  • Extendible stent apparatus
    Patent number: 6325826
    Abstract: The present invention concerns novel stent apparatuses for use in treating lesions at or near the bifurcation point in bifurcated cardiac, coronary, renal, peripheral vascular, gastrointestinal, pulmonary, urinary and neurovascular vessels and brain vessels. More particularly, the invention concerns a stent apparatus with at least one side opening which may further comprise an extendable stent portion laterally extending from the side opening and at least partly in registry with the wall of the side opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Advanced Stent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gil M. Vardi, Charles J. Davidson, Eric Williams, Stuart Lin