Patents Examined by Kankindi Rwego
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Patent number: 11666341Abstract: An embolic coil with a secondary, delivered shape utilizing regions of varying stiffness is described. In some embodiments, these regions of varying stiffness are created by utilizing a larger primary wind loop diameter to create selective regions with lower stiffness and higher flexibility. In some embodiments, these regions of higher flexibility correspond to inflection regions on a complex coil shape to ease deliverability of the coil during therapeutic procedures.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: MicroVention, Inc.Inventors: Heath Bowman, Susanna Lin
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Patent number: 11559670Abstract: An apparatus for rolling a bladder includes a support structure, a rolling pin, and a bladder-mounting pin. The apparatus optionally includes a rolling initiator Rolling a bladder includes inserting the bladder while unrolled into an apparatus for rolling a bladder, inserting the bladder between a rolling pin and a bladder-mounting pin of the rolling machine, and rotating the rolling pin to (a) advance a portion of the bladder between the rolling pin and the bladder-mounting pin, (b) roll the portion of the bladder around the bladder-mounting pin, and (c) drive the bladder-mounting pin to rotate in an opposite direction from that of the rolling pin.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2018Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Inventors: Omar Elmalak, Yoav Meiraz, Gad Harif, Gregory Rinberg
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Patent number: 11547584Abstract: A delivery system includes a handle, a guidewire catheter, a nose cone at the distal end of the guidewire catheter that with the guidewire catheter defines an opening concentric with the guidewire catheter, a plurality of wires that extend distally from the handle and essentially parallel with and distributed radially about the guidewire catheter and a stent graft. The wires each extend between a portion of the stents and wall of the stent graft, whereby the stent graft is radially constrained until the wires are retracted. The delivery system can be employed in methods of treating arterial disease, such as aortic aneurysms.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Bolton Medical, Inc.Inventor: Timothy Lostetter
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Patent number: 11534191Abstract: A loading device for loading a medical device into a catheter is provided. The loading device comprises a body having a lumen to receive an expandable portion of a medical device. The lumen has a length as the expandable portion when the latter is in a collapsed configuration and has a diameter that is greater than the collapsed configuration. The body comprises a first portion and a second portion that are reversibly separable to expose the lumen in an open configuration and enclose the lumen in a closed configuration. The first and second portions each comprise an inner face having a groove defining a first portion of the lumen and a second portion of the lumen, respectively. The body also has a distal tip portion to reversibly couple with a hemostatic valve of a delivery catheter. A method of loading a medical device into a catheter is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Anaconda Biomed, S.L.Inventors: Robert Ros Fàbrega, Iñaki Galve Murillo, Ofir Arad Hadar, Ane Lizarazu Gonzalez
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Patent number: 11523838Abstract: Retrieval of material from vessel lumens can be improved by use of a distal element comprising an expandable mesh, a treatment device includes an elongated member having a proximal portion and a distal portion configured to be positioned within a blood vessel at a treatment site at or near a thrombus. A distal element comprising an expandable mesh is coupled to the distal portion of the elongated member via a connection assembly. In an expanded state, at least a portion of the mesh is configured to be in apposition with the blood vessel wall at the treatment site to anchor or stabilize the elongated member with respect to the blood vessel. The distal element can be electrically coupled to an extracorporeal current generator.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: COVIDIEN LPInventors: Hoai Nguyen, Gaurav Girdhar, Andyanhdzung Huynh, Ujwal Jalgaonkar, Eric Mintz, Ashok Nageswaran, John Wainwright
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Patent number: 11517340Abstract: Devices described herein include a stentriever for removing an occlusive clot. The stentriever can include a membrane cover on the proximal end which can be sized to form a seal with the tip of an intermediate catheter. Clot engagement sections and/or a distal engagement section of the stentriever can also include a full or partial membrane covering to control the direction of aspiration and/or areas where the aspiration applies suction to the thrombus or clot. The membranes can be used to direct the aspiration so as to pull the clot deeper into the clot engagement sections of the stentriever, thereby improving grip on the clot. The design can also increase the effectiveness of clot fragment protection for friable clots by providing pores and/or clot cells in a distal engagement section.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: NEURAVI LIMITEDInventor: Brendan Casey
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Patent number: 11504143Abstract: An endoscope treatment tool includes: a sheath; an operating wire in the sheath; a gripping portion provided at a distal end of the operating wire and having one or more wires; a tip attached to a distal end of the sheath; and a resin member disposed at a position adjacent to the tip on a radially inner or outer side thereof, wherein the tip includes clearance grooves extending toward a proximal end of the tip from a distal end of the tip, passing therethrough from an inner circumferential surface of the tip to an outer circumferential surface of the tip, and having sizes enabling the wires to pass therethrough, and at least proximal-end sides of the grooves overlap with the member in a radial direction of the tip and a distal end of the member is disposed farther on a distal-end side than proximal ends of the grooves are.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Tsutomu Okada
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Patent number: 11484689Abstract: A medical device delivery system can be used to advance a medical device to a target area within a patient's vasculature. The system can comprise a catheter, a support sheath, and a core member coupled to a medical device. The core member can be used to longitudinally advanced or retracting medical device within a lumen of the support sheath. The support sheath can be advanced within the catheter until a distal end of the support sheath contacts or abuts a reduced diameter section of the catheter lumen. Thereafter, the core member can be advanced into the catheter lumen toward the target area.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: COVIDIEN LPInventors: Stephen A. Sosnowski, David G. Matsuura, Philip J. Simpson, Belinko K. Matsuura, Jeffrey J. Loos
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Patent number: 11484330Abstract: A basket actuator includes a base including a base body and a base guide installed in the base body, a slider including a slider body configured to slide along the base guide, and a first slider arm and a second slider arm formed to protrude from the slider body and facing each other, a roller including a roller body rotatably disposed between the first slider arm and the second slider arm and a plurality of roller blades formed to protrude outwardly from the roller body, a wire guide connected to a front end portion of the base body, a wire disposed inside the wire guide and having a first end fixed to the roller, and a basket connected to a second end of the wire. The second slider arm is located rearward in comparison to the first slider arm.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: ROEN Surgical, Inc.Inventors: Byung Sik Cheon, Dong Soo Kwon
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Patent number: 11471141Abstract: A powder spray device includes a funnel member, a first three-way joint, an air-current supply tube, a discharge tube, a vibration motor, a bypass air-current tube, and a switching mechanism. The first three-way joint has a first opening connected to an outlet at a lower end of the funnel member. The air-current supply tube and discharge tube are respectively connected to second and third openings of the first three-way joint. The vibration motor is fixed onto an outer surface of a funnel body of the funnel member. The bypass air-current tube branches off from the air-current supply tube and is connected to the discharge tube. The switching mechanism switches from and to standby state, in which compressed gas is sent only through the bypass air-current tube, to and from spray-coating state, in which compressed gas is sent out through the air-current supply tube, and also through the bypass air-current tube.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: BMG INCORPORATEDInventors: Motoki Fujimura, Shinichi Osada, Yusuke Kojitani, Woogi Hyon, Suong-Hyu Hyon
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Patent number: 11464536Abstract: A system to treat a patient comprises a user interface that allows a physician to view an image of tissue to be treated in order to develop a treatment plan to resect tissue with a predefined removal profile. The image may comprise a plurality of images, and the planned treatment is shown on the images. The treatment probe may comprise an anchor, and the image shown on the screen may have a reference image marker shown on the screen corresponding to the anchor. The planned tissue removal profile can be displayed and scaled to the image of the target tissue of an organ such as the prostate, and the physician can adjust the treatment profile based on the scaled images to provide a treatment profile in three dimensions. The images shown on the display may comprise segmented images of the patient with treatment plan overlaid on the images.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: PROCEPT BioRobotics CorporationInventors: Nikolai Aljuri, Surag Mantri, George Surjan, Michael W. Sasnett, Jonathan Foote
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Patent number: 11457914Abstract: A medical wound closure device for portable and single usage is provided. The device has first and second approximation members supported by a housing, a wound closure mechanism supported for translation within the housing by a translational drive mechanism and configured to insert at least one fastener into tissue to close the wound, and a controller configured to operate the translational drive mechanism to move the wound closure mechanism relative to the housing, and operate the wound closure mechanism to insert the at least one fastener. Automatic suturing mechanisms are provided. A method of closing a wound using a device is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: ISaab Innovations LLCInventor: Ihab Saab
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Patent number: 11457938Abstract: A foreign substance removing device includes a tubular member and a retriever configured to be expandable to and contractible from a predetermined shape. The retriever includes main wires disposed to be centered around a tube axis of the tubular member, and sub wires each connecting adjacent ones of the main wires to each other. Each of the main wires is configured to curve when the retriever is expanded such that a space having a predetermined size is provided by the main wires. Each of the sub wires is configured to be foldable at at least one point between the adjacent ones of the main wires. When the retriever is expanded, the folding points of the sub wires are positioned inside the space such that the sub wires do not protrude out of the main wires.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2018Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignees: KAWASUMI LABORATORIES, INC.Inventors: Dai Yamanouchi, Kunihiro Ohta, Hiroki Ishida
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Patent number: 11446040Abstract: In some examples, a tissue compression device includes a base including a major surface configured to engage a dorsal surface of a hand of a patient, a flexible backing adjustably mechanically connected to the base and configured to engage a palmar surface of the hand when the dorsal surface of the hand is engaged with the base, and an expandable member mechanically connected to the flexible backing. The expandable member is configured to be positioned over an ulnar region of the patient when the palmar surface of the hand is engaged with the flexible backing and the dorsal surface of the hand is engaged with the base, such that inflation of the expandable member may apply pressure to tissue near the ulnar artery of the patient.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: MEDTRONIC VASCULAR, INC.Inventor: Brian Castelli
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Patent number: 11419711Abstract: Bio-adhesive textured surfaces are described which allow implants to be localized within a living body. Hierarchical levels of texture on an implantable medical device, some capable of establishing a Wenzel state and others a Cassie state, may be employed to interface with living structures to provide resistance to device migration. Since a gaseous state is traditionally required to establish a Cassie or Wenzel state, and gases do not remain long in living tissue, described herein are tissue/device interactions analogous to the above states with the component normally represented by a gas replaced by a bodily constituent, wherein separation of tissue constituents develops and an analogous Cassie, Wenzel, or Cassie-Wenzel state evolves. Further methods of making molds to produce said devices are described herein.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: BVW Holding AGInventors: Lukas Bluecher, Michael Milbocker
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Patent number: 11399842Abstract: Devices and methods are described for occluding the left atrial appendage (LAA) to exclude the LAA from blood flow to prevent blood from clotting within the LAA and subsequently embolizing, particularly in patients with atrial fibrillation. An implant is delivered via transcatheter delivery into the LAA. The implant includes a conformable structure comprising a foam body and internal support. The support includes anchors that penetrate the foam body and anchor the implant to the walls of the LAA. The implant provides compliance such that it conforms to the native configuration of the LAA.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Conformal Medical, Inc.Inventors: Aaron V. Kaplan, David Melanson, Carol Devellian, Andy H. Levine, Andres Chamorro
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Patent number: 11395650Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for securing sutures that obviate the need for tying knots. Disclosed suture clips can comprise a first part and a second part that are attachable together to secure one or more sutures in a suture engagement region between the first and second parts. The first and second parts can include locking projections and slots at opposing ends of the suture engagement region to align the two parts, contain sutures, and/or secure the clip onto sutures. When the first and second parts are attached together, first engagement features of the first part inter-engage with second engagement features of the second part to grip and secure sutures within suture engagement region. An exemplary delivery device holds a plurality of such suture clips in an elongated shaft portion and deploys the clips successively to sutures via actuation of a handle portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Edwards Life Sciences CorporationInventor: Manouchehr A. Miraki
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Patent number: 11382749Abstract: Systems and methods for percutaneous, transcatheter heart valve repair are disclosed. A system may include a catheter, an adjustable ring, and a stabilizer. The adjustable ring may include a body member that is transitionable from an insertion geometry to an operable geometry. The insertion geometry may be configured to allow percutaneous passage of the ring into the heart. The operable geometry may have an expanded state to conform to an annulus of a target valve and a contracted state to reduce a diameter of the annulus. The adjustable ring may also include a plurality of anchors deployable in the operable geometry to engage the annulus. The stabilizer may include a plurality of prongs configured to engage the ring in the operable geometry within the heart to enable percutaneous manipulation of the ring to orient and position the ring in intimate contact with the annulus.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2018Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: VALCARE, INC.Inventors: Nadav Yellin, Samuel M. Shaolian, Jeffrey P. Dumontelle
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Patent number: 11376120Abstract: A transcatheter valve prosthesis is disclosed that has a compressed, delivery configuration and an expanded configuration for deployment within a native heart valve. The valve prosthesis includes a self-expanding frame and a prosthetic valve component. The self-expanding frame includes a valve receiving portion defining an opening therethrough and first and second anchors at opposing ends of the valve receiving portion. The valve receiving portion is substantially planar and the first and second anchors are oriented substantially perpendicular to the valve receiving portion when the valve prosthesis is in the expanded configuration. The prosthetic valve component is disposed within the opening of the valve receiving portion and secured thereto.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: MEDTRONIC VASCULAR GALWAYInventor: Declan Costello
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Patent number: 11344325Abstract: A system for retrieving material or objects from a biological vessel is provided. the system includes an elongated braid structure configured for transitioning between collapsed and expanded states, the elongated braid structure surrounding a lumen having a distal opening when in the expanded state. The system further includes a closure wire positioned along a length of the elongated braid structure, the closure wire being actuatable to pull inward a distal portion of the elongated braid structure and thereby at least partially close the distal opening.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: CERETRIVE LTD.Inventors: Shahar Harari, Tanhum Feld, Maysa Mustafa