Julio C Palmaz

6379383, Apr 30, 2002

Nov 19, 1999

09/443929

Julio C. Palmaz - San Antonio TX
Eugene A. Sprague - San Antonio TX
Cristina Simon - San Antonio TX
Denes Marton - San Antonio TX
Roger W. Wiseman - Bulverde TX
Christopher E. Banas - San Antonio TX

Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd. - San Antonio TX

A61F 206

623 149

An implantable endoluminal device which is fabricated from materials which present a blood or body fluid and tissue contact surface which has controlled heterogeneities in material constitution. An endoluminal stent which is made of a material having controlled heterogeneities in the stent material along the blood flow surface of the stent and the method of fabricating the stent using vacuum deposition methods.

6537310, Mar 25, 2003

Mar 20, 2000

09/532164

Julio C. Palmaz - San Antonio TX
Christopher T. Boyle - San Antonio TX
Christopher E. Banas - San Antonio TX
Roger W. Wiseman - Bulverde TX
Denes Marton - San Antonio TX

Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd. - San Antonio TX

A61F 206

623 113, 623 146

An implantable endoluminal device that is fabricated from materials that present a blood or body fluid and tissue contact surface that has controlled heterogeneities in material constitution. An endoluminal stent-graft and web-stent that is made of an monolithic material deposited into a monolayer and etched into regions of structural members and web regions subtending interstitial regions between the structural members. An endoluminal graft is also provided which is made of a biocompatible metal or metal-like material. The endoluminal stent-graft is characterized by having controlled heterogeneities in the stent material along the blood flow surface of the stent and the method of fabricating the stent using vacuum deposition methods.

RE38146, Jun 17, 2003

Nov 5, 1998

09/186589

Julio C. Palmaz - San Antonio TX
Jean C. LaBorde - Toulouse Cedex, FR

Cordis Corporation - Miami FL

A61F 206

623 111, 623 123, 623 135, 623 113, 606108, 606155

A bilateral intra-aortic bypass graft and method and apparatus for repairing an abdominal aortic aneurysm includes two tubular grafts which are intraluminally delivered to the aorta and secured to the aorta by the expansion and deformation of two expandable and deformable tubular members.

6733513, May 11, 2004

Apr 29, 2002

10/135582

Christopher T. Boyle - San Antonio TX
Steven R. Bailey - San Antonio TX
Christopher E. Banas - San Antonio TX
Julio C. Palmaz - San Antonio TX

Advanced BioProsthetic Surfaces, Ltd. - San Antonio TX

A61M 2900

606192

A metal balloon catheter having a main tubular body, a metal balloon proximate a distal end of the main tubular body, a central annulus extending along an entire longitudinal aspect of the catheter for accommodating a guidewire therethrough and an inflation annulus adjacent the central annulus which extends along the longitudinal axis of the main tubular body and terminates in fluid flow communication with an inflation chamber of the metal balloon. The metal balloon catheter may be either unitary integral metal catheter in which the main tubular body and the balloon are fabricated of metal, or it may consist of a polymeric main tubular body and a metal balloon.

6820676, Nov 23, 2004

Dec 22, 2000

09/745304

Julio C. Palmaz - San Antonio TX
Eugene A. Sprague - San Antonio TX
Cristina Simon - San Antonio TX
Denes Marton - San Antonio TX
Roger W. Wiseman - Bulverde TX
Christopher E. Banas - San Antonio TX

Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd. - San Antonio TX

A61F 206

164 46, 623901, 623 115, 164 761

An implantable endoluminal device which is fabricated from materials which present a blood or body fluid and tissue contact surface which has controlled heterogeneities in material constitution. An endoluminal stent which is made of a material having controlled heterogeneities in the stent material along the blood flow surface of the stent and the method of fabricating the stent using vacuum deposition methods.

6936066, Aug 30, 2005

Apr 29, 2002

10/135626

Julio C. Palmaz - San Antonio TX, US
Christopher T. Boyle - San Antonio TX, US

Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd. - San Antonio TX

A61F002/06

623 113

Implantable medical grafts fabricated of metallic or pseudometallic films of biocompatible materials having a plurality of microperforations passing through the film in a pattern that imparts fabric-like qualities to the graft or permits the geometric deformation of the graft. The implantable graft is preferably fabricated by vacuum deposition of metallic and/or pseudometallic materials into either single or multi-layered structures with the plurality of microperforations either being formed during deposition or after deposition by selective removal of sections of the deposited film. The implantable medical grafts are suitable for use as endoluminal or surgical grafts and may be used as vascular grafts, stent-grafts, skin grafts, shunts, bone grafts, surgical patches, non-vascular conduits, valvular leaflets, filters, occlusion membranes, artificial sphincters, tendons and ligaments.

7195641, Mar 27, 2007

Apr 11, 2002

10/120728

Julio C. Palmaz - San Antonio TX, US
Eugene A. Sprague - San Antonio TX, US
Cristina Fuss - San Antonio TX, US
Denes Marton - San Antonio TX, US
Roger W. Wiseman - Bulverde TX, US
Christopher E. Banas - San Antonio TX, US
Christopher T. Boyle - San Antonio TX, US
Steven R. Bailey - San Antonio TX, US

Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd. - San Antonio TX

A61F 2/24
A61F 2/06

623 218, 623 126

This invention relates to improvements in prosthetic cardiac and venous valves and implantable medical devices having moveable septa. The inventive prosthetic cardiac and venous valves have metallic or pseudometallic valves coupled to metallic or pseudometallic stents that permit percutaneous delivery of the devices.

7235098, Jun 26, 2007

Sep 20, 2004

10/945203

Julio C. Palmaz - San Antonio TX, US

Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd. - San Antonio TX

A61F 2/06

623 115

Implantable medical devices, including stents, grafts, covered stents, catheters, patches or the like having regions of the device which are functionalized employing microelectromechanical systems that are capable of acting as electromechanical sensors or biosensors in response to either an endogenous event, such as tissue growth, biochemical binding events, pressure changes, or respond to an externally applied stimulus, such as RF energy, to cause a change in the state of the device, such as to induce an oscillation signal which may be interrogated and interpreted external the body or may generate an induced electrical or electromagnetic potential in the device to activate micromotors to effect a geometric change in the device.