335 patents
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Overmold Technique for Peel-away Introducer Design
18 Jan 24
A method for manufacturing a medical introducer includes placing an introducer sheath onto a mandrel, and overmolding an introducer hub onto a proximal end of the introducer sheath.
Glen Fantuzzi, Michael Tafone, Jeffrey Drum
Filed: 20 Jun 23
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Intravascular Blood Pump with Intake Filter
18 Jan 24
An intravascular blood pump has an intake filter that reduces risk of heart tissue being sucked into an intake port of the pump.
Ralph Louis D'Ambrosio, Maxim Daschewski, Valentin Neblik, Joerg Schumacher, Gerd Spanier
Filed: 19 Jun 23
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Rotor for a Pump, Produced with a First Elastic Material
4 Jan 24
A rotor for a pump has a housing and a rotor, and has at least one blade.
Joerg Schumacher, Mario Scheckel
Filed: 22 May 23
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Left Ventricular Volume and Cardiac Output Estimation Using Machine Learning Model
4 Jan 24
Methods and systems are disclosed for creating and using a neural network model to estimate a cardiac parameter of a patient, and using the estimated parameter in providing blood pump support to improve patient cardiac performance and heart health.
Ahmad El Katerji, Qing Tan, Erik Kroeker, Rui Wang
Filed: 5 May 23
Utility
Internal balloon sheath
2 Jan 24
A device including a sheath for insertion through an arteriotomy of a patient.
Glen Robert Fantuzzi
Filed: 20 Jul 22
Utility
Compressible motor, implantation arrangement, and method for positioning the motor
2 Jan 24
The invention relates to a motor with a stator and a rotor, which can be driven about an axial direction.
Joerg Schumacher
Filed: 14 Jan 22
Utility
Expandable Introducer Sheath for Medical Device
28 Dec 23
An expandable medical sheath can include a sheath body having a lumen that extends between proximal and distal ends of the sheath.
Christopher Nason Korkuch
Filed: 25 May 23
Utility
Hemostatic Valve for Medical Device Introducer
28 Dec 23
An introducer for insertion of a medical device into a patient's vasculature includes an elongate introducer body, a hub, and a hemostatic valve.
Glen R. Fantuzzi, Dion Mraz
Filed: 26 Jun 23
Utility
Cannula System
28 Dec 23
A system and method for percutaneous ventricular assist devices are provided, where the percutaneous ventricular assist devices include a pump assembly and a cannula assembly.
Alexander Ship, Emmanuel Ilongo, Vincent Roy, Sonya Bhavsar
Filed: 28 Jun 22
Utility
Flexible Outflow Cannula with Shaped Outlets
28 Dec 23
A blood pump may be provided that may include a pump housing and a catheter operably coupled to the pump housing.
Gerd Spanier
Filed: 23 Jun 23
Utility
Sheath Assembly for Insertion of a Cord-shaped Element, Particularly a Catheter, into the Body of a Patient
21 Dec 23
Sheath assembly for the insertion of a cord-shaped element, comprising an introducer sheath, and an auxiliary sheath for insertion into the introducer sheath together with the cord-shaped element.
Joerg Schumacher, Lars Bredenbreuker, Robert Decke
Filed: 3 Mar 23
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Blood pump for the invasive application within a body of a patient
19 Dec 23
The invention relates to a blood pump for the invasive application within a body of a patient comprising a rotor which is drivable about an axis of rotation and is radially compressible or expandable and which has a hub and at least one impeller blade fastened thereto, as well as comprising a housing which is compressible or expandable in the radial direction by an axial stretching or axial compression.
Thomas Toellner, Mario Scheckel
Filed: 12 Feb 20
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Blood pump assembly having a sensor and a sensor shield
19 Dec 23
A blood pump assembly can include various components such as a housing and a sensor configured to detect one or more characteristics of the blood.
Ralph Louis D'Ambrosio, Bruce Adams, Michael Thomas Finnegan, Gerd Spanier, Thorsten Siess
Filed: 5 May 21
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Methods and Apparatus for Identifying High-risk Patients for Protected Percutaneous Coronary Interventions
14 Dec 23
Methods and apparatus for identifying whether a patient is eligible for a Protected Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (Protected PCI®) are provided.
Dawn Bardot, Daniel Schwartz, Daniel Poscover, Daniel Housman
Filed: 9 Jun 23
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Systems and Methods for Selective Occlusion of the Peripheral Venous Vasculature to Unload the Heart
7 Dec 23
Systems and methods for intermittently occluding a patient's venous vasculature to unload the heart while increasing cardiac output and improving perfusion to the patient's heart is provided.
Christopher KORKUCH
Filed: 5 Jun 23
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Intravascular Blood Pump with Intake Filter
7 Dec 23
An intravascular blood pump has an intake filter that reduces risk of heart tissue being sucked into an intake port of the pump.
Ralph Louis D'Ambrosio, Maxim Daschewski, Valentin Neblik, Joerg Schumacher, Gerd Spanier
Filed: 17 Aug 23
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Estimating Maximum Flow Through a Circulatory Support Device
7 Dec 23
Methods and apparatus for estimating maximum flow for a heart pump are described.
Samuel Brown, Qing Tan, Mohammed Alwatban
Filed: 2 Jun 23
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Dual lumen sheath for arterial access
5 Dec 23
A sheath assembly for the insertion of a percutaneous pump includes a tubular sheath body dimensioned for insertion into a blood vessel through a vessel aperture.
Scott C. Corbett, Glen R. Fantuzzi, John Murphy, Frank Kirchhoff, David Brousseau, Thorsten Siess
Filed: 18 Jun 21
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Expandable Sheath with Fold
30 Nov 23
The systems, methods, and devices that provide an expandable sheath assembly for insertion of an interventional medical device (e.g., an intracardiac heart pump) into a blood vessel through a vessel aperture.
Glen R. Fantuzzi, Robert Fishman, Jonathan Barry, Anne Gabrielle McLoughlin
Filed: 24 May 23
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Data Storage and Retrieval System for Non-contiguous Medical Device Operational Data
30 Nov 23
A web-based interface enables medical personnel to remotely monitor medical devices.
Alessandro Simone Agnello, Paul Roland Lemay
Filed: 28 Apr 23