Richard J Esposito

US Patent:

7753906, Jul 13, 2010

Filed:

Sep 14, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/941643

Inventors:

Richard Esposito - Bedminster NJ, US

International Classification:

A61B 18/18

US Classification:

606 41, 606 49, 60410101, 600374

Abstract:

A catheter is provided having anchoring and stabilizing devices adapted to respectively sit in and outside an opening of a tubular region. A sheath covering the catheter body forms the anchoring and stabilizing devices, which sheath comprises slits cut into the sheath creating spines. The spines are radially expanded by distal movement of the sheath relative to the catheter body. Radial expansion of the anchoring device generally anchors the distal end of the catheter inside the tubular region. Radial expansion of the stabilizing assembly generally stabilizes the distal end of the catheter against the ostium of the tubular region. The pressure exerted on the tubular region by the anchoring and stabilizing devices minimizes translational and rotational movement of the distal end of the catheter. Alternatively, the catheter may include a telescoping portion extending from the distal end of the catheter in which the anchoring and stabilizing devices are deployed by movement of a puller wire.

US Patent:

20120112412, May 10, 2012

Filed:

Nov 8, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/941382

Inventors:

Richard Esposito - Bayonne NJ, US

International Classification:

A63F 1/00
A63F 9/24

US Classification:

273292, 463 43

Abstract:

A method of playing a card game includes the steps of providing one or more decks of playing cards, requiring a player to place a blackjack wager before cards are dealt, affording the player an opportunity to place a bonus wager before cards are dealt, dealing out two cards to each of a plurality of hands, thereby forming a dealer's initial hand and a player's initial hand, determining whether the player's initial hand is a Blackjack hand, determining whether the dealer's initial hand is a Blackjack hand, and if it is determined that neither the player's initial hand nor the dealers initial hand is a Blackjack hand, affording the player an opportunity to draw an additional card, and if the player elects to draw an additional card, determining the outcome of a three-card bonus hand consisting of the player's initial hand and the additional card.