Patents by Inventor Tim DALBEC

Tim DALBEC 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: 20070265639
    Abstract: Methods for treating a network of organs including generating a map of at least a portion of the network of organs using a rendering system; selecting at least one treatment location within the luminal passageway of the network of organs; and applying an energy therapy to the treatment location to treat the smooth muscle tissue, where the energy therapy applied to the respective treatment location is defined by a plurality of parameters that are associated with a map. Such a system allows for historical or ideal treatment parameters to be identified, visually or otherwise to actual treatment locations. Also, control systems and methods for delivery of energy that may include control algorithms that prevent energy delivery if a fault is detected and may provide energy delivery to produce a substantially constant temperature at a delivery site. In some embodiments, the control systems and methods may be used to control the delivery of energy, such as radio frequency energy, to body tissue, such as lung tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Applicant: Asthmatx, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Danek, William Wizeman, Tim Dalbec, Glendon French, Michael Laufer
  • Publication number: 20070093803
    Abstract: This relates to methods and devices for achieving contact between the wall of a cavity or passageway and a medical device when used in tortuous anatomy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2005
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Inventors: Tim Dalbec, Gary Kaplan, Christopher Danek, William Wizeman
  • Publication number: 20070074719
    Abstract: Control systems and methods for delivery of energy that may include control algorithms that prevent energy delivery if a fault is detected and may provide energy delivery to produce a substantially constant temperature at a delivery site. In some embodiments, the control systems and methods may be used to control the delivery of energy, such as radiofrequency energy, to body tissue, such as lung tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: Asthmatx, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher DANEK, William Wizeman, Tim Dalbec, Gary Kaplan
  • Publication number: 20060247619
    Abstract: This relates to methods and devices for achieving contact between the wall of a cavity or passageway and a medical device under conditions in which an access path and the subject anatomy are not aligned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicant: ASTHMATX, INC.
    Inventors: Gary Kaplan, Christopher Danek, William Wizeman, Tim Dalbec
  • Publication number: 20060247683
    Abstract: Methods for treating a network of organs including generating a map of at least a portion of the network of organs using a rendering system; selecting at least one treatment location within the luminal passageway of the network of organs; and applying an energy therapy to the treatment location to treat the smooth muscle tissue, where the energy therapy applied to the respective treatment location is defined by a plurality of parameters that are associated with a map. Such a system allows for historical or ideal treatment parameters to be identified, visually or otherwise to actual treatment locations. Also, control systems and methods for delivery of energy that may include control algorithms that prevent energy delivery if a fault is detected and may provide energy delivery to produce a substantially constant temperature at a delivery site. In some embodiments, the control systems and methods may be used to control the delivery of energy, such as radiofrequency energy, to body tissue, such as lung tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicant: Asthmatx, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Danek, William Wizeman, Tim Dalbec, Glendon French, Michael Laufer
  • Publication number: 20060247746
    Abstract: Control systems and methods for delivery of energy that may include control algorithms that prevent energy delivery if a fault is detected and may provide energy delivery to produce a substantially constant temperature at a delivery site. In some embodiments, the control systems and methods may be used to control the delivery of energy, such as radiofrequency energy, to body tissue, such as lung tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicant: Asthmatx, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Danek, William Wizeman, Tim Dalbec, Gary Kaplan
  • Publication number: 20060247618
    Abstract: This relates to methods and devices for achieving contact between the wall of a cavity or passageway and a medical device under conditions in which an access path and the subject anatomy are not aligned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicant: ASTHMATX, INC.
    Inventors: Gary KAPLAN, Christopher DANEK, William WIZEMAN, Tim DALBEC