Patents Examined by Kathleen Paige Farrell
  • Patent number: 11974773
    Abstract: A surgical access device includes a cannula assembly and an obturator. The obturator is configured to removably couple with the cannula assembly along a central axis of the cannula assembly to facility inversion of the surgical access device through a body wall of the patient. The obturator includes an elongated shaft extending along a longitudinal axis, a tapered distal tip located at a distal portion of the elongated shaft, and an obturator head located at a proximal portion of the elongated shaft. The obturator head includes an interference fit feature capable of inhibiting proximal movement between the obturator and the cannula assembly via a frictional force against a surface of the cannula assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Gregory G. Scott, Jeffrey L. Savage
  • Patent number: 11931545
    Abstract: A medical system configured to aid a user in locating an access port of an implantable medical device, the medical system including an implantable port comprising a medicament chamber accessible through a septum, a localizer base operably coupled to the implantable port comprising an array of electromagnetic field emitting coils, an antenna array comprising a plurality of electromagnetic field sensing coils, and a user interface adapted to display data received from the antenna array to visually depict a relative position of the antenna array relative to the localizer base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Bodner
  • Patent number: 11844936
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a medicament delivery device, comprising an outer body, a receptacle for a medicament, a needle for the administration of the medicament, an injection mechanism with an actuating mechanism for injecting the medicament into the patients body, and a needle guard for the needle. The medicament delivery device further comprising a detecting element for the detection of the orientation of the medicament delivery device, and a locking mechanism releasing the actuating mechanism, if the detecting element is in the at least first position, and locking the actuating mechanism, if the detecting element is in the at least second position, wherein the locking mechanism is controlled and/or actuated by the detecting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Sanofi
    Inventor: Stephan Riedel
  • Patent number: 11819638
    Abstract: Rapidly insertable central catheters (“RICCs”) including catheter assemblies and methods thereof are disclosed. For example, a RICC assembly includes a RICC and an introducer. The RICC includes a catheter tube, a catheter hub, and one or more extension legs coupled in the foregoing order. The catheter tube includes a side aperture that opens into an introducing lumen that extends from at least the side aperture to a distal end of the RICC. The introducer includes a retractable-needle device, a syringe, and a coupling hub that couples the retractable-needle device and the syringe together proximal of the side aperture in a ready-to-deploy state of the RICC assembly. The retractable-needle device includes an introducer needle. A needle tip in a distal-end portion of a shaft of the introducer needle extends beyond the distal end of the RICC when the RICC assembly is in the ready-to-deploy state of the RICC assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Bard Access Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Glade H. Howell, Jason R. Stats
  • Patent number: 11752307
    Abstract: This patent document discloses accessory devices and associated methods for catheter and guidewire management in a surgical setting. Implementations can include an accessory device having a manually deformable body that includes proximal and distal surfaces. The body may further define at least first and second apertures, each aperture extending through the body. The first aperture can be engageable with a proximal end portion of a first elongate medical device, and the second aperture can be configured to receive a second elongate medical device. The body can be slidable along the proximal end portion of the first elongate medical device and/or the second elongate medical device, and the proximal surface of the body may include a funnel leading into the first aperture, the second aperture, or both. The body may be incorporated into, or attached to, a proximal side of a hemostasis valve utilized for a medical operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Teleflex Life Sciences Limited
    Inventors: Christopher E. Buller, Joshua Brenizer
  • Patent number: 11712524
    Abstract: A medical injection device for supporting a medical container comprising a barrel and a needle tip extending from a distal end of the barrel, comprising: safety shield, first ring configured to be coupled to the medical container and configured to be biased in a proximal direction relative to the safety shield from an injection position in which a needle tip extends out of the safety shield to a safety position in which the needle tip is covered by the safety shield, and second ring rotatably movable relative to the first ring between locking position wherein the second ring maintains the first ring in the injection position and an unlocking position wherein the second ring releases the first ring thereby allowing the first ring to be urged into the safety position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Becton Dickinson France
    Inventors: Frédéric Perot, Gilles Bernede, Simon Gaschet