Patents Assigned to Starion Instrument Corporation
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Patent number: 7871407Abstract: An electronic circuit for identifying an electrical surgical tool and for providing a selectable constant current appropriate to the identified electrical surgical tool.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2009Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: Starion Instruments CorporationInventor: Thomas A Howell
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Publication number: 20100010483Abstract: An electronic circuit for identifying an electrical surgical tool and for providing a selectable constant current appropriate to the identified electrical surgical tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2009Publication date: January 14, 2010Applicant: STARION INSTRUMENTS CORPORATIONInventor: THOMAS A. HOWELL
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Patent number: 7578815Abstract: An electronic circuit for identifying an electrical surgical tool and for providing a selectable constant current appropriate to the identified electrical surgical tool.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2006Date of Patent: August 25, 2009Assignee: Starion Instruments CorporationInventor: Thomas A. Howell
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Patent number: 7462176Abstract: A device is described which allows simultaneous application of suction or vacuum for evacuation of fat with application of energy to the fat inside an opening in a cannula. A pair of electrodes is situated within the cavity of the cannula just under the surface of cannula tip opening(s) or as part of the walls of such openings. The electrodes are spaced to allow coagulation of fat entering the cannula. Irrigation may be applied in a continuous or discontinuous or intermittent stream within the cannula to cool the tip and facilitate removal of suctioned tissue and prevent buildup of debris on electrodes. A method for using the cannula to remove adipose tissue or fat destroyed by the energy application through the use of suction with mechanical motion of the cannula, with energy application and optionally with the use of irrigation is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2005Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: Starion Instruments CorporationInventor: Lawrence S. Bass
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Patent number: 7396356Abstract: A medical device for simultaneously cutting tissue with a heating element, cauterizing the tissue with sealing elements, and stapling the tissue together. The heating elements comprise bipolar RF electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2004Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: Starion Instruments CorporationInventor: Kenneth H. Mollenauer
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Patent number: 7329255Abstract: A device for handling tissue; including: a main body; a pair of opposing arms connected to the main body, the opposing arms having working surfaces thereon; a heating element disposed on one of the working surfaces; and a resistive element wired in parallel with the heating element.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2003Date of Patent: February 12, 2008Assignee: Starion Instruments CorporationInventor: Thomas H. McGaffigan
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Patent number: 7326202Abstract: A resistance heater for use in a tissue sealing and cutting device, including a tubular heating element adapted to conduct current therethrough; and a thermally conductive electrical insulator disposed within the tubular heating element.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2003Date of Patent: February 5, 2008Assignee: Starion Instruments CorporationInventor: Thomas H. McGaffigan
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Patent number: 7044947Abstract: A polypectomy device and method which includes a snare cable, a fixed jaw and a moveable jaw. The snare cable is routed through both the fixed jaw and the moveable jaw. The snare cable forms a hoop for encircling the polyp. Shortening the snare cable positions the jaws about the base of the polyp and further shortening the cable closes the jaws. The fixed jaw includes a heating element which cauterizes the base of the polyp. The closing of the jaws and the heating of the heating element cuts and seals the polyp.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2003Date of Patent: May 16, 2006Assignee: Starion Instruments CorporationInventors: Roger A. de la Torre, Kenneth H. Mollenauer
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Patent number: 7033351Abstract: An electronic circuit for identifying an electrical surgical tool and for providing a selectable constant current appropriate to the identified electrical surgical tool.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2003Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Starion Instruments CorporationInventor: Thomas A. Howell
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Patent number: 7025065Abstract: Thermal cautery and thermal ligating devices improved by the addition of a thermally conductive plate proximate the resistive heating element used in those devices.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2003Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignee: Starion Instruments CorporationInventors: Thomas H. McGaffigan, Jan M. Echeverry, Donielle Boudin, Peter Carlotto, Huy Le
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Patent number: 7011656Abstract: Thermal cautery and thermal ligating devices improved by the addition of a thermally conductive plate proximate the resistive heating element used in those devices.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2003Date of Patent: March 14, 2006Assignee: Starion Instruments CorporationInventors: Thomas H. McGaffigan, Jan M. Echeverry
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Patent number: 6918903Abstract: A device is described which allows simultaneous application of suction or vacuum for evacuation of fat with application of energy to the fat inside an opening in a cannula. A pair of electrodes is situated within the cavity of the cannula just under the surface of cannula tip opening(s) or as part of the walls of such openings. The electrodes are spaced to allow coagulation of fat entering the cannula. Irrigation may be applied in a continuous or discontinuous or intermittent stream within the cannula to cool the tip and facilitate removal of suctioned tissue and prevent buildup of debris on electrodes. A method for using the cannula to remove adipose tissue or fat destroyed by the energy application through the use of suction with mechanical motion of the cannula, with energy application and optionally with the use of irrigation is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2003Date of Patent: July 19, 2005Assignee: Starion Instrument CorporationInventor: Lawrence S. Bass
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Patent number: 6821273Abstract: A medical device for simultaneously cutting tissue with a heating element, cauterizing the tissue with sealing elements, and stapling the tissue together. The heating elements comprise bipolar RF electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2003Date of Patent: November 23, 2004Assignee: Starion Instruments CorporationInventor: Kenneth H. Mollenauer
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Publication number: 20040064151Abstract: Ultrasonic forceps adapted for use in open surgical forceps. The device is provided in the form of traditional open surgery forceps or tweezers, and the transmitting rod which transmits ultrasonic vibration from a proximally located transducer to the distally mounted welding horn runs through a lumen in one of the arms of the forceps.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2002Publication date: April 1, 2004Applicant: Starion Instruments CorporationInventor: Kenneth H. Mollenauer
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Publication number: 20040044335Abstract: A polypectomy device and method which includes a snare cable, a fixed jaw and a moveable jaw. The snare cable is routed through both the fixed jaw and the moveable jaw. The snare cable forms a hoop for encircling the polyp. Shortening the snare cable positions the jaws about the base of the polyp and further shortening the cable closes the jaws. The fixed jaw includes a heating element which cauterizes the base of the polyp. The closing of the jaws and the heating of the heating element cuts and seals the polyp.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2003Publication date: March 4, 2004Applicant: Starion Instruments CorporationInventors: Roger A. de la Torre, Kenneth H. Mollenauer
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Patent number: 6695837Abstract: An electronic circuit for identifying an electrical surgical tool and for providing a selectable constant current appropriate to the identified electrical surgical tool.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2002Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: Starion Instruments CorporationInventor: Thomas A. Howell
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Patent number: 6616659Abstract: A polypectomy device and method which includes a snare cable, a fixed jaw and a moveable jaw. The snare cable is routed through both the fixed jaw and the moveable jaw. The snare cable forms a hoop for encircling the polyp. Shortening the snare cable positions the jaws about the base of the polyp and further shortening the cable closes the jaws. The fixed jaw includes a heating element which cauterizes the base of the polyp. The closing of the jaws and the heating of the heating element cuts and seals the polyp.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2001Date of Patent: September 9, 2003Assignee: Starion Instruments CorporationInventors: Roger A. de la Torre, Kenneth H. Mollenauer
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Patent number: 6616654Abstract: A polypectomy device and method which includes a snare cable, a fixed jaw and a moveable jaw. The snare cable is routed through both the fixed jaw and the moveable jaw. The snare cable forms a hoop for encircling the polyp. Shortening the snare cable positions the jaws about the base of the polyp and further shortening the cable closes the jaws. The fixed jaw includes a heating element which cauterizes the base of the polyp. The closing of the jaws and the heating of the heating element cuts and seals the polyp.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2001Date of Patent: September 9, 2003Assignee: Starion Instruments CorporationInventor: Kenneth H. Mollenauer
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Patent number: 6602252Abstract: A medical device for simultaneously cutting tissue with a heating element, cauterizing the tissue with heating elements, and stapling the tissue together.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2002Date of Patent: August 5, 2003Assignee: Starion Instruments CorporationInventor: Kenneth H. Mollenauer
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Patent number: 6544248Abstract: A surgical device and method allows simultaneous application of suction or vacuum to body tissue and application of energy to the body tissue drawn into a cannula. The device may be inserted laparoscopically into the body, and operated to suck body tissue into the cannula, and heat or electrical energy may be applied to the tissue, and irrigation fluid may also be supplied to surrounding tissue to flush debris and cooling the surrounding tissue.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 1999Date of Patent: April 8, 2003Assignee: Starion Instruments CorporationInventor: Lawrence S. Bass