Patents Examined by Katrina Stransky
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Patent number: 10058338Abstract: Disclosed are methods for performing a surgical procedure at a surgical site utilizing a surgical robot. Other embodiments are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2010Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: MAZOR ROBOTICS LTD.Inventor: Moshe Shoham
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Patent number: 10058349Abstract: A cutting balloon catheter including a balloon mounted on a distal portion of a catheter shaft. The balloon includes a cutting member mounted on an exterior surface of the balloon which includes one or more features for providing the cutting member with enhanced flexibility for navigating tortuous anatomy and more closely conforms to the expansion characteristics of the balloon to which the cutting member is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2015Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Richard Gunderson, Joseph Zielinski
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Patent number: 10058315Abstract: The present disclosure provides a variety of prostheses, delivery systems and techniques to facilitate closure of transvascular or transcameral access ports. Various embodiments of prostheses are provided including a plurality of radially expandable mesh discs filled with material to facilitate coagulation and to reduce or stop leakage from punctures in vessel walls.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignees: Transmural Systems LLC, The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human ServicesInventors: Nasser Rafiee, Stuart MacDonald, Robert J. Lederman, Toby Rogers, Rany Busold, Koosha Rafiee
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Patent number: 10052150Abstract: Methods, systems and devices for endometrial ablation. In accordance with a method, a working end of an RF ablation device is positioned in a patient uterus to contact endometrial tissue, the working end comprising a dielectric wall capable of non-expanded and expanded shapes and for conforming to an asymmetric or symmetric shape of the patient's cervix. An expandable seal is provided for sealing the cervical canal.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Minerva Surgical, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Truckai, Csaba Truckai
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Patent number: 10045765Abstract: The present disclosure provides a variety of prostheses, delivery systems and techniques to facilitate closure of transvascular or transcameral access ports. Various embodiments of prostheses are provided including a plurality of radially expandable discs that can be filled with material to facilitate coagulation and to reduce or stop leakage from punctures in vessel walls.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignees: Transmural Systems LLC, The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human ServicesInventors: Nasser Rafiee, Stuart MacDonald, Robert J. Lederman, Toby Rogers, Rany Busold, Koosha Rafiee
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Patent number: 10046141Abstract: An introducer has a shaft with a central lumen, a control handle with a deflection assembly, and a tensile member with a distal portion extending along opposing sides of within the shaft and a proximal portion extending within the control handle. The deflection assembly has a deflection arm, and a rotatable member rotationally coupled to the deflection arm, wherein the rocker member has at least one pulley engaged with the proximal tensile member portion. Rotation of the deflection arm in one direction draws the proximal tensile member portion for deflecting the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2008Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Biosense Webster, Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey W. Schultz
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Patent number: 10045867Abstract: A stent delivery system can include a core member, a stent engagement member, and a stent. The core member can have a distal segment. The stent engagement member can have a generally tubular body positioned about the core member distal segment and can be rotatably coupled to the core member. The engagement member can include an inner layer that has a first durometer and an outer layer that has a second durometer less than the first durometer. The stent can extend along the core member distal segment such that an inner surface of the stent is engaged by the engagement member outer layer for facilitating rotation of the stent relative to the core member.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: COVIDIEN LPInventors: Ashok Nageswaran, Michael Losordo, Gabriel Newell, Lawrence Farhat
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Patent number: 10034748Abstract: A prosthetic aortic valve intended for native or valve-in-valve within bioprostheses includes an expandable support scaffold and valve leaflets disposed within an upper leaflet portion of the support scaffold. The valve leaflets within the upper portion may be located within the annulus (intravalvular), above the annulus, or above the native or prosthetic leaflets (supravalvular). The valve within a previously implanted degenerated heart valve such that a base or lower portion of the replacement valve is within the previously implanted valve and the upper portion is expanded within the aorta, the internal area of the valve can be increased and the hemodynamics of the valve improved. Alternatively, the valve may include separate upper and lower portions allowing the portions to be implanted sequentially if needed and the length and other characteristics of the valve to be adjusted based on patient anatomy and condition.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2010Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Elaine Evelina Tseng, Ali Nejatbakhsh Azadani
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Patent number: 10034671Abstract: Tissue compression devices having pressure indicators and methods of using the same. The tissue compression devices provide feedback to a user with respect to the pressure being applied to selected tissue at a selected location such as a radial artery to assist the user in applying the desired amount of pressure to the tissue (such as the pressure needed to achieve hemostasis at an access site). The pressure indication may be provided by a ring indicator that moves between two configurations (e.g., a concave configuration and a convex configuration), a bellow chamber in a housing, a bladder located below a bladder window, etc.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2016Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: Medtronic Vascular, Inc.Inventors: Sanaz Saatchi, Joseph Berglund, Conor Flannery, Mark Hoff, Brian Joseph Mason, Yusuke Miyashita, Remy O'Leary Pieron, Justin Williams
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Patent number: 10028820Abstract: An intravascular filter device having a flexible arm which comprises a portion of an alarm system for detecting filling or plugging of the filter by captured emboli is described. The flexible arm may be made of ferromagnetic material, a magnet, or have at its tip a magnet which, as it moves under systolic and diastolic pressures, generates a signal detectable by an electrical sensor or a magnetometer. The signals from each of a pair of artery filters may be measured and compared to determine whether one filter is plugged. A system for detection and a method of use are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2016Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: COOK MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: David D. Grewe, Santanu Chandra
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Patent number: 10028829Abstract: An implantation device for a prosthetic heart valve includes a valve holder for maintaining the prosthetic heart valve in a closed configuration and at least one protective sheet coupled to the valve holder, the at least one protective sheet being configured to cover a leaflet of the heart valve during implantation.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.Inventor: Xue Mei Li
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Patent number: 10028747Abstract: This invention can be embodied in a device for occluding a cerebral aneurysm comprising a series of proximally-and-distally-connected coil loops. This invention can further comprise a stretchable mesh which spans the interiors of these loops. These loops (and the stretchable mesh) overlap to create a coil-and-mesh mass within the aneurysm sac which occludes the aneurysm.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Aneuclose LLCInventor: Robert A. Connor
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Patent number: 10022212Abstract: The present invention provides a removable vena cava filter for capturing and treating blood clots in a blood vessel. The filter comprises a hub, a plurality of struts extending distally from the hub, and a tubular member disposed through the hub. The tubular member has a proximal end and a distal portion including a plurality of perforations. A catheter may be attached to the proximal end of the tubular member. Fluid may be injected into the catheter to treat blood clots captured in the filter.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2011Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: COOK MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventor: Cleve Koehler
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Patent number: 10016578Abstract: A tunneling system for use with a catheter includes an elongate tunneling member defining a longitudinal axis along at least a portion of a longitudinal length thereof. The elongate member has a first end and a second end. The tunneling system further includes a connector configured for releasably engaging the second end of the elongate tunneling member to the catheter.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2016Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Richard Braga, Michael Sansoucy, Todd Chelak, Mark Callahan
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Patent number: 10010335Abstract: Mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses (devices, systems, etc.) and methods for positioning them within a vessel and using them to remove a thrombus, e.g., clot, from within a vessel. In particular, described herein are methods of advancing an inverting tractor thrombectomy apparatus having a tractor comprising a flexible tube of material that inverts over itself as it rolls over a distal end opening of an elongate inversion support by extending the tractor region and/or a puller coupled to the tractor distally beyond the end of the catheter. Also described herein are power-driven mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: E. Skott Greenhalgh, Michael P. Wallace
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Patent number: 10010338Abstract: In an arthroendoscopical surgical method, a resection target area, which is emphasized by fluorescence with use of a fluorescent agent under excitation light, is identified on a meniscus, and a resection line or an imaginary resection line is drawn. Using an ultrasonic treatment tool and an arthroscope, the resection target area is resected by a probe which generates ultrasonic vibrations, based on the resection line or imaginary resection line under visible-light illumination, and an inclined resection surface is formed.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Takamitsu Sakamoto, Chie Onuma, Ken Fujisaki, Kiichiro Sawada, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Satoshi Takekoshi, Sohei Ueda, Yasuo Tanigami
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Patent number: 10010327Abstract: An embodiment of the invention includes an expandable implant to endovascularly embolize an anatomical void or malformation, such as an aneurysm. An embodiment is comprised of a chain or linked sequence of expandable polymer foam elements. Another embodiment includes an elongated length of expandable polymer foam coupled to a backbone. Another embodiment includes a system for endovascular delivery of an expandable implant (e.g., shape memory polymer) to embolize an aneurysm. The system may include a microcatheter, a lumen-reducing collar coupled to the distal tip of the microcatheter, a flexible pushing element detachably coupled to an expandable implant, and a flexible tubular sheath inside of which the compressed implant and pushing element are pre-loaded. Other embodiments are described herein.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2011Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignees: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, The Texas A&M University SystemInventors: Thomas S. Wilson, Ward Small, IV, William J. Benett, Jason M. Ortega, Duncan J. Maitland, Jonathan Hartman
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Patent number: 10010710Abstract: A surgical or wound closure device utilizes a slide fastener for rapidly closing a surgical incision or wound with precise apposition of the sides of the incision. The surgical closure devices are configured for linear incisions, shaped incisions, such as used for wedge biopsy or excisional biopsy, and long incisions, such as used for laparotomy or surgical removal of redundant skin. The surgical closure device may be adhered to the patient's skin prior to making an incision and is subsequently used for closing the incision.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: ZipLine Medical, Inc.Inventors: Amir Belson, Brian Beckey, James J. Leary
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Patent number: 10010339Abstract: An ultrasonic surgical blade includes a body having a proximal end, a distal end, and an outer surface. The distal end is movable relative to a longitudinal axis in accordance with ultrasonic vibrations applied to the proximal end. At least a portion of the outer surface of the body comprises a lubricious coating adhered thereto. The lubricious coating has a coefficient of friction that is less than the coefficient of friction of the outer surface of the body.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2008Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Ethicon LLCInventors: David A. Witt, Jeffrey D. Messerly, Kevin L. Houser
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Patent number: 10004638Abstract: An intraocular shunt deployment device can release an intraocular shunt into an eye using a deployment mechanism that coordinates action between a pusher component, a shaft component, and a housing of the device. The deployment mechanism causes axial movement of the components in response to a rotational input force.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: Aquesys, Inc.Inventors: Laszlo O. Romoda, Christopher Horvath