Patents by Inventor Yousef Alkhatib
Yousef Alkhatib 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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Patent number: 8926679Abstract: The present invention is directed to balloon folding configurations and methods for catheter devices having dual lumens in radial proximity to the balloon, such as, but not limited to, self-aligning stent delivery systems for treatment of bifurcated lesions. The configuration designs alters the conventional catheter profile by packing balloon materials in otherwise vacant areas located on both sides of the side branch shaft and/or the parent shaft, such that the device takes on more of a round profile instead of the classical elongated egg-shaped profile.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2006Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Yousef Alkhatib, Adam Jennings
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Patent number: 8795346Abstract: A system to deliver or remove an inflation expandable stent in a body vessel. The system avoids causing damage or embolisms to a body vessel it is traversing by restraining the edges of the stent from scraping against the walls of the body vessel. The edges are restrained by balloon folds, compressive wedging, and angled reflective resistance. In addition the device can also inflate or deflate the balloon more efficiently.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2006Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventor: Yousef Alkhatib
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Patent number: 8556955Abstract: A medical device having at least one static state, at least one activated state, and at least one active region including electroactive polymer (EAP) capable of fine electro-activated movements. The EAP movements include bending components for proper alignment, rotating components for proper fittings, making components more rigid or flexible, and increasing and decreasing the volume of components. The fine movements allow for highly versatile and adaptable medical devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2012Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Gregorich, Matt Heidner, Tracee Eidenschink, Adam Jennings, Yousef Alkhatib
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Patent number: 8439961Abstract: A catheter system comprises a catheter comprising a distal portion, a proximal portion and an inner shaft. The inner shaft comprises a medical device receiving region for receiving and carrying a medical device. The retaining device is at least partially constructed of an electroactive polymer. The retaining device is located on or adjacent to the medical device receiving region. The electroactive polymer of the retaining device has an activated state and an inactivated state. The retaining device is capable of retaining a medical device to the catheter and releasing the medical device from the catheter by transitioning between the activated state and the inactivated state.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2006Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Karl A. Jagger, Tracee Eidenschink, Derek Sutermeister, Daniel Gregorich, Yousef Alkhatib, Matt Heidner, Adam Jennings, Richard C. Gunderson, John Blix, Timothy J. Mickley, Richard Olson, Jan Weber, Dominick Godin
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Publication number: 20120265286Abstract: A medical device having at least one static state, at least one activated state, and at least one active region including electroactive polymer (EAP) capable of fine electro-activated movements. The EAP movements include bending components for proper alignment, rotating components for proper fittings, making components more rigid or flexible, and increasing and decreasing the volume of components. The fine movements allow for highly versatile and adaptable medical devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2012Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Daniel Gregorich, Matt Heidner, Tracee Eidenschink, Adam Jennings, Yousef Alkhatib
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Patent number: 8206429Abstract: A medical device having at least one static state, at least activated state, and at least one active region including electroactive polymer (EAP) capable of fine electro-activated movements. The EAP movements include bending components for proper alignment, rotating components for pooper fittings, making components more rigid or flexible, and increasing and decreasing the volume of components. The fine movements allow for highly versatile and adaptable medical devices.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2006Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Gregorich, Matt Heidner, Tracee Eidenschink, Adam Jennings, Yousef Alkhatib
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Patent number: 7919910Abstract: An expandable medical balloon having at least one static state, at least one expanded state, and at least one deflated state, the expandable medical balloon including at least one active region, the at least one active region including electroactive polymer.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2010Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Tracee Eidenschink, Derek Wise, Derek Sutermeister, Yousef Alkhatib, Daniel Gregorich, Adam Jennigs, Matt Heidner, Dominick Godin, Richard C. Gunderson, John Blix, Karl A. Jagger, Angela Kornkven Volk
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Patent number: 7909844Abstract: A catheter comprises a first catheter shaft comprising a wall. The wall comprises at least one section of electroactive polymer having an actuated state and a non-actuated state and defines a first lumen. In the actuated state the first lumen haves a first diameter and in the non-actuated state the first lumen haves a second diameter, the first diameter being different than the second diameter.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2006Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Yousef Alkhatib, Matt Heidner, Tracee Eidenschink, Angela Kornkven Volk, John Blix, Dominick Godin, Derek Sutermeister
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Publication number: 20100312322Abstract: An expandable medical balloon having at least one static state, at least one expanded state, and at least one deflated state, the expandable medical balloon including at least one active region, the at least one active region including electroactive polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2010Publication date: December 9, 2010Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Tracee Eidenschink, Derek Wise, Derek Sutermeister, Yousef Alkhatib, Daniel Gregorich, Adam Jennings, Matt Heidner, Dominick Godin, Richard C. Gunderson, John Blix, Karl A. Jagger, Angela Kornkven Volk
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Patent number: 7777399Abstract: An expandable medical balloon having at least one static state, at least one expanded state, and at least one deflated state, the expandable medical balloon including at least one active region, the at least one active region including electroactive polymer.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2006Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Tracee Eidenschink, Derek Wise, Derek Sutermeister, Yousef Alkhatib, Daniel Gregorich, Adam Jennings, Matt Heidner, Dominick Godin, Richard C. Gunderson, John Blix, Karl A. Jagger, Angela Kornkven Volk
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Publication number: 20100016937Abstract: A catheter assembly includes a catheter shaft having a proximal portion and a distal portion, the catheter shaft having a torsionally weakened region at the distal portion, the torsionally weakened region including one or more portions that are recessed from an outer surface of the catheter shaft. The assembly also includes a primary guidewire lumen defined in the catheter shaft and sized to receive a primary guidewire, and an inflatable member positioned at the distal portion of the catheter shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2008Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventor: Yousef Alkhatib
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Publication number: 20080119922Abstract: A system to deliver or remove an inflation expandable stent in a body vessel. The system avoids causing damage or embolisms to a body vessel it is traversing by restraining the edges of the stent from scraping against the walls of the body vessel. The edges are restrained by balloon folds, compressive wedging, and angled reflective resistance. In addition the device can also inflate or deflate the balloon more efficiently.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2006Publication date: May 22, 2008Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventor: Yousef Alkhatib
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Publication number: 20080086081Abstract: An expandable medical balloon having at least one static state, at least one expanded state, and at least one deflated state, the expandable medical balloon including at least one active region, the at least one active region including electroactive polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2006Publication date: April 10, 2008Inventors: Tracee Eidenschink, Derek Wise, Derek Sutermeister, Yousef Alkhatib, Daniel Gregorich, Adam Jennings, Matt Heidner, Dominick Godin, Richard C. Gunderson, John Blix, Karl A. Jagger, Angela Kornkven Volk
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Publication number: 20080027528Abstract: A catheter system comprises a catheter comprising a distal portion, a proximal portion and an inner shaft. The inner shaft comprises a medical device receiving region for receiving and carrying a medical device. The retaining device is at least partially constructed of an electroactive polymer. The retaining device is located on or adjacent to the medical device receiving region. The electroactive polymer of the retaining device has an activated state and an inactivated state. The retaining device is capable of retaining a medical device to the catheter and releasing the medical device from the catheter by transitioning between the activated state and the inactivated state.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2006Publication date: January 31, 2008Inventors: Karl Jagger, Tracee Eidenschink, Derek Sutermeister, Daniel Gregorich, Yousef Alkhatib, Matt Heidner, Adam Jennings, Richard C. Gunderson, John Blix, Timothy J. Mickley, Richard Olson, Jan Weber, Dominick Godin
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Publication number: 20080027377Abstract: A catheter comprises a first catheter shaft comprising a wall. The wall comprises at least one section of electroactive polymer having an actuated state and a non-actuated state and defines a first lumen. In the actuated state the first lumen haves a first diameter and in the non-actuated state the first lumen haves a second diameter, the first diameter being different than the second diameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2006Publication date: January 31, 2008Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Yousef Alkhatib, Matt Heidner, Tracee Eidenschink, Angela Kornkven Volk, John Blix, Dominick Godin, Derek Sutermeister
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Publication number: 20070208406Abstract: The present invention is directed to balloon folding configurations and methods for catheter devices having dual lumens in radial proximity to the balloon, such as, but not limited to, self-aligning stent delivery systems for treatment of bifurcated lesions. The configuration designs alters the conventional catheter profile by packing balloon materials in otherwise vacant areas located on both sides of the side branch shaft and/or the parent shaft, such that the device takes on more of a round profile instead of the classical elongated egg-shaped profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2006Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Yousef Alkhatib, Adam Jennings
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Publication number: 20050137620Abstract: An intracorporeal assembly includes an elongated shaft having a proximal portion and an opposing distal portion, a balloon disposed on the distal portion, and a tubular member disposed about the elongated shaft. The tubular member can slide from the proximal portion to the distal portion of the elongate shaft to surround a portion of the balloon.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2003Publication date: June 23, 2005Inventor: Yousef Alkhatib