Patents by Inventor William L. Gould
William L. Gould 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: 20230248411Abstract: In an example, a cryotherapy system includes a base station, a cryotherapy applicator, and a cryogen conduit configured to couple the cryotherapy applicator to the base station and supply a cryogen from the base station to the cryotherapy applicator. The base station includes a housing including a canister receptacle that is configured to receive a canister containing the cryogen. The cryotherapy applicator includes a handle, a shaft extending from the distal end of the handle, and an end-effector coupled to the shaft. The end-effector is configured to use the cryogen to ablate a target tissue. An entirety of the cryotherapy applicator is movable relative to an entirety of the base station while the cryogen conduit couples the cryotherapy applicator to the base station.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: William Jason Fox, Brian Fahey, Vahid Saadat, William L. Gould, David Moosavi
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Publication number: 20220226623Abstract: The present technology is directed to adjustable interatrial shunting systems that selectively control blood flow between the left atrium and the right atrium of a patient. The adjustable interatrial devices include a shunting element having an outer surface configured to engage native tissue and an inner surface defining a lumen that enables blood to flow from the left atrium to the right atrium when the system is deployed across the septal wall. The systems can include an actuation assembly for selectively adjusting a geometry of the lumen and/or a geometry of a lumen orifice to control the flow of blood through the lumen.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Brian Fahey, Scott Robertson, William L. Gould, William Jason Fox, Claudio Argento, Anthony Pantages, Miles Alexander, Peter Andriola
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Patent number: 11160961Abstract: The present technology is directed to adjustable interatrial shunting systems that selectively control blood flow between the left atrium and the right atrium of a patient. The adjustable interatrial devices include a shunting element having an outer surface configured to engage native tissue and an inner surface defining a lumen that enables blood to flow from the left atrium to the right atrium when the system is deployed across the septal wall. The systems can include an actuation assembly for selectively adjusting a geometry of the lumen and/or a geometry of a lumen orifice to control the flow of blood through the lumen.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Shifamed Holdings, LLCInventors: Brian Fahey, Scott Robertson, William L. Gould, William Jason Fox, Claudio Argento, Anthony Pantages, Miles Alexander, Peter Andriola
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Publication number: 20210330418Abstract: An isolation barrier and method of using it. The isolation barrier includes a mask with a face opening and at least one access opening in front of the subject's nose and/or mouth and an enclosure having a first enclosure opening attached around the access opening, a second enclosure opening, and flexible material extending from the first enclosure opening to the second enclosure opening and defining an enclosure interior, the flexible material comprising at least one area through which the enclosure interior can be viewed, the mask and enclosure interior defining a medical procedure field extending from the subject's nose and mouth to the second enclosure opening when the isolation barrier is in place on the subject's face.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Mojgan SAADAT, Vahid SAADAT, William Jason FOX, William L. GOULD, Matthew Allison HERRON, Andrew Ivan POUTIATINE
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Publication number: 20210205590Abstract: The present technology is directed to adjustable interatrial shunting systems that selectively control blood flow between the left atrium and the right atrium of a patient. The adjustable interatrial devices include a shunting element having an outer surface configured to engage native tissue and an inner surface defining a lumen that enables blood to flow from the left atrium to the right atrium when the system is deployed across the septal wall. The systems can include an actuation assembly for selectively adjusting a geometry of the lumen and/or a geometry of a lumen orifice to control the flow of blood through the lumen.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: Brian Fahey, Scott Robertson, William L. Gould, William Jason Fox, Claudio Argento, Anthony Pantages, Miles Alexander, Peter Andriola
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Patent number: 11000655Abstract: A method of removing exhaled material from a medical procedure field adjacent to a subject's nose and mouth. In some embodiments the method includes the steps of placing an isolation barrier at least partially surrounding the subject's nose and mouth to define the medical procedure field; controlling air flow into the medical procedure field with the isolation barrier; and evacuating air from the medical procedure field at an air evacuation rate greater than or equal to the subject's respiratory minute volume. The invention also provides a system for creating an isolated medical procedure field around a subject's nose and mouth.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: INQUIS MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: William Jason Fox, William L. Gould, Matthew Allison Herron, Andrew Ivan Poutiatine, Mojgan Saadat, Vahid Saadat
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Publication number: 20210085935Abstract: The present technology is directed to adjustable interatrial shunting systems that selectively control blood flow between the left atrium and the right atrium of a patient. The adjustable interatrial devices include a shunting element having an outer surface configured to engage native tissue and an inner surface defining a lumen that enables blood to flow from the left atrium to the right atrium when the system is deployed across the septal wall. The systems can include an actuation assembly for selectively adjusting a geometry of the lumen and/or a geometry of a lumen orifice to control the flow of blood through the lumen.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Brian Fahey, Scott Robertson, William L. Gould, William Jason Fox, Claudio Argento, Anthony Pantages, Miles Alexander, Peter Andriola
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Patent number: 10952812Abstract: An isolation barrier and method of using it. The isolation barrier includes a mask with a face opening and at least one access opening in front of the subject's nose and/or mouth and an enclosure having a first enclosure opening attached around the access opening, a second enclosure opening, and flexible material extending from the first enclosure opening to the second enclosure opening and defining an enclosure interior, the flexible material comprising at least one area through which the enclosure interior can be viewed, the mask and enclosure interior defining a medical procedure field extending from the subject's nose and mouth to the second enclosure opening when the isolation barrier is in place on the subject's face.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2020Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: INQUIS MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Mojgan Saadat, Vahid Saadat, William Jason Fox, William L. Gould, Matthew Allison Herron, Andrew Ivan Poutiatine
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Patent number: 9597485Abstract: Medical devices which are adapted to be inserted into a patient for a limited period of time using minimally invasive insertion procedures for dilating a stenotic opening, such as a stenotic sinus opening, are provided. The devices and methods can be used for treating sinusitis and other nasal and/or sinus disorders.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: SinuSys CorporationInventors: David E. Edgren, William Jason Fox, William L. Gould, Jerome E. Hester, Bradley F. Marple, Curtis Leslie Rieser, Thomas A. Schreck
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Patent number: 9504812Abstract: Medical devices which are adapted to be inserted into a patient for a limited period of time using minimally invasive insertion procedures for dilating a stenotic opening, such as a stenotic sinus opening, are provided. The devices and methods can be used for treating sinusitis and other nasal and/or sinus disorders.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2013Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: SinuSys CorporationInventors: David E. Edgren, William Jason Fox, William L. Gould, Jerome E. Hester, Bradley F. Marple, Curtis Leslie Rieser, Thomas A. Schreck
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Publication number: 20160121088Abstract: Medical devices which are adapted to be inserted into a patient for a limited period of time using minimally invasive insertion procedures for dilating a stenotic opening, such as a stenotic sinus opening, are provided. The devices and methods can be used for treating sinusitis and other nasal and/or sinus disorders.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2015Publication date: May 5, 2016Inventors: William Jason Fox, William L. Gould, Todd A. Pelman
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Patent number: 9149616Abstract: Medical devices which are adapted to be inserted into a patient for a limited period of time using minimally invasive insertion procedures for dilating a stenotic opening, such as a stenotic sinus opening, are provided. The devices and methods can be used for treating sinusitis and other nasal and/or sinus disorders.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2013Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: SinuSys CorporationInventors: David E. Edgren, William Jason Fox, William L. Gould, Jerome E. Hester, Bradley F. Marple, Curtis Leslie Rieser, Thomas A. Schreck
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Patent number: 9138569Abstract: Medical devices which are adapted to be inserted into a patient for a limited period of time using minimally invasive insertion procedures for dilating a stenotic opening, such as a stenotic sinus opening, are provided. The devices and methods can be used for treating sinusitis and other nasal and/or sinus disorders.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2013Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: SinuSys CorporationInventors: David E. Edgren, William Jason Fox, William L. Gould, Jerome E. Hester, Bradley F. Marple, Curtis Leslie Rieser, Thomas A. Schreck
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Patent number: 8808350Abstract: A modular catheter system including a sheath projecting distally from a delivery catheter having a main body module An inner core module carrying a stent thereon, the inner core being axially movable through the main body of the delivery catheter and the delivery catheter sheath, a handle member supported by the main body of the delivery catheter, the handle member being selectively axially engageable with the inner core such that the handle member and the inner core move together in an axial direction when the handle member is engaged with the inner core; and an adjustment member supported by the main body, the adjustment member being configured such that rotation of the adjustment member causes the adjustment member to move axially along the main body by either axially sliding the handle member relative to the main body or by rotating the adjustment member.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2012Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Endologix, Inc.Inventors: Stefan Schreck, Elbert Tzeng, Todd Abraham, Jonathan Phan, Joshua Benjamin, Jacqueline Macias, Kevin Chu, William L. Gould
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Publication number: 20120226341Abstract: A modular catheter system including a sheath projecting distally from a delivery catheter having a main body module An inner core module carrying a stent thereon, the inner core being axially movable through the main body of the delivery catheter and the delivery catheter sheath, a handle member supported by the main body of the delivery catheter, the handle member being selectively axially engageable with the inner core such that the handle member and the inner core move together in an axial direction when the handle member is engaged with the inner core; and an adjustment member supported by the main body, the adjustment member being configured such that rotation of the adjustment member causes the adjustment member to move axially along the main body by either axially sliding the handle member relative to the main body or by rotating the adjustment member.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2012Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: ENDOLOGIX, INC.Inventors: Stefan Schreck, Elbert Tzeng, Todd Abraham, Jonathan Phan, Joshua Benjamin, Jacqueline Macias, Kevin Chu, William L. Gould
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Patent number: 5169526Abstract: This is a rapidly deployable system for containing, collecting and storing an oil or other fluid spill occurring in a body of water. A plurality of flexible, cylindrical boom sections with depending coplanar flexible skirts, are detachably connected end to end to form an elongated boom assembly which may be as much as 400 feet long, for surrounding the fluid spill in the water. Each of the boom sections has apertures along one side to admit fluid from the spill. Long coil springs in the boom sections maintain the sections in cylindrical form while permitting lateral flexing of the boom sections. Floating skimmers in the boom sections collect fluid entering the boom sections via the apertures. The skimmers pass the fluid to a flexible collector pipe in the boom sections. The collector pipe is connected to pumps in housings interposed in the boom assembly. Flexible skirts also depend from the pump housings.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1991Date of Patent: December 8, 1992Inventor: William L. Gould
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Patent number: D774649Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: SinuSys CorporationInventors: William Jason Fox, William L. Gould, Curtis Leslie Rieser