Abhijit C Deshpande

US Patent:

8043324, Oct 25, 2011

Filed:

Oct 30, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/929107

Inventors:

Abhijit Y. Deshpande - Santa Clara CA, US
Lawrence Wasicek - San Jose CA, US

Assignee:

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. - Maple Grove MN

International Classification:

A61M 1/34
A61B 17/225

US Classification:

606200, 606128

Abstract:

An intravascular filter assembly is disclosed for fragmenting a thrombotic or atherosclerotic occlusion and capturing thrombotic or atherosclerotic debris within a blood vessel. The intravascular filter assembly includes an elongate shaft and an expandable filter coupled to the distal region of the elongate shaft. One or more piezoelectric elements are secured to the elongate shaft at a location proximal of the expandable filter. A conducting wire is attached to the one or more piezoelectric elements and extends toward the proximal end of the elongate shaft. The one or more piezoelectric elements are configured to generate ultrasonic waves when subjected to an electrical voltage to fragment a thrombotic or atherosclerotic occlusion within a blood vessel.

US Patent:

20020111819, Aug 15, 2002

Filed:

May 4, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/849510

Inventors:

Xi Li - Sunnyvale CA, US
Keng-Shao Chang - San Jose CA, US
John Dooley - Mountain View CA, US
Abhijit Deshpande - Fremont CA, US
Thomas Greene - Santa Cruz CA, US
Darren Hakeman - San Mateo CA, US

Assignee:

SAVI TECHNOLOGY, INC.

International Classification:

G06F017/60

US Classification:

705/001000

Abstract:

A commerce visibility network allows for the collection and distribution of real-time location and status information regarding the movement of goods and assets through a supply chain. Items and/or conveyances may be individually tagged using radio frequency identifiers or other tagging technologies, such as global positioning satellite technology. The location of an item or conveyance may be marked and information on the location may be stored at a site server. The site server may then upload location information to a data center. Supply chain users may then be charged a fee per tracked item or fee per transaction to access the data center and view reports compiled using the location information regarding each tracked item. This allows for instantaneous access to location and status information of any item in the supply chain. Additionally, aggregation information is provided to allow for the tracking of items which are stored in conveyances, even in several levels of conveyances. Compensation logic is applied to the asset movement data to provide a continuous knowledge of the asset locations, so as to compensate for deficiencies in the raw location data.