Patents Assigned to Establishment Labs S.A.
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Publication number: 20240130846Abstract: The invention provides new devices for implantation in a patient having irregular textured surfaces, which devices show significantly improved cellular response compared to conventional smooth and textured implants, indicating that significantly improved biocompatibility would be achieved in vivo. Methods for making such new devices and surface textures are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: ESTABLISHMENT LABS S.A.Inventors: Ardeshir Bayat, Ernie Hill, Daniel Kyle, Antonios Oikonomou
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Publication number: 20240090994Abstract: Medical implants comprising biocompatible materials and having surface features that may assist in biocompatibility upon implantation in the body are described. Methods for manufacturing such implants are also described. The manufacturing process may include applying a biocompatible material to a texturized surface of a mold. The implants may include various features to assist their positioning, fixation, and/or identification during and/or after implantation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: ESTABLISHMENT LABS S.A.Inventors: Juan José Chacón Quirós, Roberto De Mezerville, John Hancock, Salvador Dada, Nathalia Araujo, Josue Cascante, Rudy A. Mazzocchi
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Patent number: 11890179Abstract: The invention provides new devices for implantation in a patient having irregular textured surfaces, which devices show significantly improved cellular response compared to conventional smooth and textured implants, indicating that significantly improved biocompatibility would be achieved in vivo. Methods for making such new devices and surface textures are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Establishment Labs S.A.Inventors: Ardeshir Bayat, Ernie Hill, Daniel Kyle, Antonios Oikonomou
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Patent number: 11883069Abstract: A medical device may include a shaft extending between a proximal end and a distal end. The shaft may include a lumen therein. The medical device may include a handle coupled to the proximal end of the shaft and may include a mode selector. The mode selector may be adapted to transition between a first mode and a second mode of the medical device. The medical device may further include a compressed fluid source. In the first mode, the compressed fluid source may be fluidly coupled with the shaft so as to impart a negative pressure in at least a portion of the lumen. In the second mode, the compressed fluid source may be fluidly coupled with the shaft so as to impart a positive pressure in the at least a portion of the lumen.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Establishment Labs S.A.Inventors: Juan José Chacón Quirós, Rudy A. Mazzocchi, Roberto De Mezerville, John Hancock, Nathalia Araujo, Matthew Solar, Nicholas Lewin
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Patent number: 11710234Abstract: Methods of processing images, such as ultrasound images, to determine integrity of an implant are described. The method may include receiving an ultrasound image of an implant in a body of a subject; determining one or more characteristics of a surface of the implant based on an intensity of pixels of the ultrasound image; generating a predicted status of the implant based on the one or more characteristics by comparison of the one or more characteristics with a database of image data; and displaying the predicted status of the implant. The implant may be a breast implant, for example, wherein the method is useful for analyzing the presence or probability of extracapsular ruptures, contractures, and combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Establishment Labs S.A.Inventors: Manuel Chacón, Allan Orozco, David Meléndez, Nabil Vindas, Yamil Vindas, Juan José Chacón Quirós
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Patent number: 11672648Abstract: Implants having symmetry are described. The implant may comprise a biocompatible material and have at least two planes of symmetry, including symmetry about an equator of the implant. The implant may be a body contouring implant, wherein a posterior side of the implant is symmetric about the equator to an anterior side of the implant.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Establishment Labs S.A.Inventors: Camila Garcia, Solange Vindas, Roberto De Mezerville, Juan José Chacón Quirós
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Patent number: 11672565Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a medical implant introducer (100) and methods of its use. The introducer (100) may include a handle (120), an implant-holding cavity disposed distally from the handle (120), a fluid supply conduit (122) fluidly coupled to an interior portion of the implant-holding cavity, and a distal nozzle (110) having a proximal portion, a distal portion, a middle portion in between the proximal portion and the distal portion, the middle portion having a tapered profile such that the proximal portion is larger than the distal portion, and a distal opening (112), wherein an implant in the implant-holding cavity may be expelled from the introducer (100) through the distal opening (112).Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Establishment Labs S.A.Inventors: Jose Pablo Viquez, Eckart Holst, Solange Vindas, Ariel Seidner H., Matthew Solar, Roberto De Mezerville, Juan José Chacón Quirós, Thomas Fuller, Nathalia Araujo
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Patent number: 11622791Abstract: A medical device may include a shaft extending between a proximal end and a distal end. The shaft may include a lumen therein. The medical device may include a handle coupled to the proximal end of the shaft and may include a mode selector. The mode selector may be adapted to transition between a first mode and a second mode of the medical device. The medical device may further include a compressed fluid source. In the first mode, the compressed fluid source may be fluidly coupled with the shaft so as to impart a negative pressure in at least a portion of the lumen. In the second mode, the compressed fluid source may be fluidly coupled with the shaft so as to impart a positive pressure in the at least a portion of the lumen.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Establishment Labs S.A.Inventors: Juan José Chacón Quirós, Rudy A. Mazzocchi, Roberto De Mezerville, John Hancock, Nathalia Araujo, Matthew Solar, Nicholas Lewin
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Patent number: 11607306Abstract: An implantable soft tissue prosthesis device comprising a silicone elastomer-shell filled with silicone gel or liquid, which among the layers that constitute its shell includes a barrier layer formed of a low permeability silicone, which impedes the bleeding or diffusion of the silicone gel from the inside of the implant to its surroundings through the shell. This barrier layer is given a coloration different to the other layers of the shell, making it visible in the finished product. The coloration of the barrier layer gives the fabricator of the implant as well as to medical personnel, the possibility to identify the presence of the barrier layer and its homogeneity, improving the safety of the device.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Establishment Labs S.A.Inventors: Rolando Mora, Salvador Dada, Juan Jose Chacon
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Patent number: 11602587Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and a method for FIG. 2 treating fat cells taken from a patient and intended for a transplant. More specifically, it relates to a device and a method by suctioning which makes it possible to separate the viable fat cells from the residues and elements which are not transplantable.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Establishment Labs S AInventor: Najib Taizou
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Patent number: 11593601Abstract: Implantable transponders comprising no ferromagnetic parts for use in medical implants are disclosed herein. Such transponders may assist in preventing interference of transponders with medical imaging technologies. Such transponders may optionally be of a small size, and may assist in collecting and transmitting data and information regarding implanted medical devices. Methods of using such transponders, readers for detecting such transponders, and methods for using such readers are also described.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2022Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Establishment Labs S.A.Inventors: Randolph Keith Geissler, Rudy A. Mazzocchi, Juan José Chacón-Quirós, Steven A. Lewis
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Patent number: 11571271Abstract: Tissue expanders and methods of their manufacture and use are disclosed herein. A tissue expander shell according to the present disclosure may include a shape and topography that facilitates uniform or substantially uniform expansion and contraction of the tissue expander. In at least one example, the shell may include a series of topographical features, such as ridges, grooves, channels, valleys, canals, protrusions, pleats, creases, or folds. In some embodiments, these features may have a curved or wavy cross sectional profile. For example, the shell may include a series of concentric curved ridges.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Establishment Labs S.A.Inventors: Nicole Martinez, Nathalia Araujo, Roberto De Mezerville, Juan José Chacón Quirós
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Patent number: 11537829Abstract: Implantable transponders comprising no ferromagnetic parts for use in medical implants are disclosed herein. Such transponders may assist in preventing interference of transponders with medical imaging technologies. Such transponders may optionally be of a small size, and may assist in collecting and transmitting data and information regarding implanted medical devices. Methods of using such transponders, readers for detecting such transponders, and methods for using such readers are also described.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Establishment Labs S.A.Inventors: Randolph Keith Geissler, Rudy A. Mazzocchi, Juan José Chacón Quirós, Steven A. Lewis
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Publication number: 20220338808Abstract: Medical implants including sensors are described. The implant may have a flexible shell with a base, wherein the plurality of sensors may be incorporated onto and/or into the shell. The plurality of sensors may be distributed at different locations of the shell. Each sensor of the plurality of sensors may be configured to measure one or more parameters such as, e.g., temperature and/or pressure, and may comprise an electromagnetic coil useful for wireless transmission of data. Each sensor may be configured to transmit data at a frequency different from the frequency of one or more of the other sensors, may be configured to transmit data at a time different from a time data is transmitted by one or more of the other sensors, and/or may include a device identifier different from the device identifier of one or more of the other sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2020Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: Establishment Labs S.A.Inventors: Denise DAJLES, Juan José DELGADO, Nathalia ARAUJO, Roberto DE MEZERVILLE, Juan José CHACÓN QUIRÓS
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Patent number: 11369467Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices useful in medical procedures, such as, e.g., aesthetic and/or reconstructive surgeries, are described. The system may be an imaging system that includes a database and a computer system configured to create, modify, and/or display three-dimensional images created from digital image data of an anatomical region of a subject. The digital image data may be obtained with an imaging device such as a scanner.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2017Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Establishment Labs S.A.Inventors: Juan José Chacón Quirós, Rafael G. Corrales, Gerardo Mora, Ana Y. Quiros, Celso P. Garcia, Jorge Mayorga, Mario Ramirez, Federico Carbo
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Publication number: 20220156541Abstract: Implantable transponders comprising no ferromagnetic parts for use in medical implants are disclosed herein. Such transponders may assist in preventing interference of transponders with medical imaging technologies. Such transponders may optionally be of a small size, and may assist in collecting and transmitting data and information regarding implanted medical devices. Methods of using such transponders, readers for detecting such transponders, and methods for using such readers are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: Establishment Labs S.A.Inventors: Randolph Keith GEISSLER, Rudy A. MAZZOCCHI, Juan José CHACÓN-QUIRÓS, Steven A. LEWIS
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Publication number: 20220142762Abstract: An implant material having an implant surface comprising a plurality of tissue-contacting members arranged in a regular or irregular two-dimensional array, each tissue-contacting member having a convex curved tissue-contacting surface. Methods of preparing and using such implant materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2021Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: Establishment Labs S.A.Inventors: Ernie HILL, Ardeshir BAYAT, Simon BARR
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Publication number: 20220008095Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to devices for inserting expandable balloons into an implantation site of a patient. Such devices may include a base (326) having a longitudinal axis and defining a cavity (322); an expandable balloon (330) disposed within the cavity in a collapsed configuration; and a flexible lumen (310) extending proximally from the balloon to a pump (302), the flexible lumen fluidly connecting the balloon to the pump. The base may include a projection extending distally, parallel to the longitudinal axis, wherein at least a portion of the balloon is coupled to the projection. Further, for example, the device may include a cover (324) coupled to the base and movable relative to the base to selectively cover and expose the cavity to deploy the balloon.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2019Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: Establishment Labs S.A.Inventors: Ariel SEIDNER H., Jose Pablo VIQUEZ, David MELENDEZ, Solange Vindas MORAN, Charles RANDQUIST, Denise DAJLES, Roberto DE MEZERVILLE, Fernando VALERIO, Juan José CHACÓN QUIRÓS
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Patent number: 11202698Abstract: An implant material having an implant surface comprising a plurality of tissue-contacting members arranged in a regular or irregular two-dimensional array, each tissue-contacting member having a convex curved tissue-contacting surface. Methods of preparing and using such implant materials.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2016Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: Establishment Labs S.A.Inventors: Ernie Hill, Ardeshir Bayat, Simon Barr
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Publication number: 20210383915Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for processing images to determine a modified image The method may include receiving profile data associated with a subject, the profile data comprising three-dimensional image data corresponding to at least a portion of a torso of the subject. A three-dimensional model may be determined based on the profile data, and a breast volume model may be determined based on the three dimensional model.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2019Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicant: Establishment Labs S.A.Inventors: Gerardo MORA, Gerson RODRIGUEZ, Raghu RAGHAVAN, Martin BRADY, Roberto DE MEZERVILLE, Juan José CHACÓN QUIRÓS