Percutaneous methods and devices for carotid body ablation

US9398930B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Cibiem, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Mark S. Leung · Duncan, CA
• Brett Schleicher · San Francisco, US
• Charles D. Lennox · Hudson, US
• Ary S. Chernomorsky · Walnut Creek, US
• Zoar Jacob Engelman · Salt Lake City, US
• Marat Fudim · Goldkronach, DE
• Martin M. Grasse · Basel, CH
• Mark Gelfand · New York, US
• Howard R. Levin · Teaneck, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 3, 2013
• Grant date: Jul 26, 2016
• Expiry date: Sep 16, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F04C2270/0421
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Methods and percutaneous devices for assessing, and treating patients having sympathetically mediated disease, involving augmented peripheral chemoreflex and heightened sympathetic tone by reducing chemosensor input to the nervous system via percutaneous carotid body ablation.