Patents by Inventor Craig Gerbi
Craig Gerbi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 7757924Abstract: A single fold system for tissue approximation and fixation is described herein. The devices are advanced in a minimally invasive manner within a patient's body to create at least one fold within a hollow body organ. The system comprises a tissue acquisition and folding device and a tissue stapling or fixation device, each of which is used together as a system. The acquisition device is used to approximate a single fold of tissue from within the hollow body organ and the stapling device is advanced through a main lumen defined through the acquisition device and is used to affix the tissue. The stapling device is keyed to maintain its rotational orientation relative to the acquisition device and to provide the user positional information of the stapling device. The acquisition device is also configured to provide lateral stability to the stapling device prior to the stapling device being clamped onto tissue.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2006Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: Satiety, Inc.Inventors: Craig Gerbi, Gary Weller, Jamy Gannoe, Douglas S. Sutton, Andrew H. Hancock, Gilbert Mata, Jr.
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Publication number: 20100056926Abstract: A system for imaging and treating tissue comprises a probe having a deflectable distal tip for carrying an imaging array and a delivery needle for advancement within a field of view of the imaging array. Optionally, the needle will carry a plurality of tines which may be selectively radially deployed from the needle. The imaging array will preferably be provided in a separate, removable component.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2008Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: Gynesonics, Inc.Inventors: Robert K. Deckman, Brian Placek, Michael A. Munrow, Craig Gerbi
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Publication number: 20090131790Abstract: Systems and devices according to the present invention providing a needle deployment and visualization device, which includes: a shaft; an ultrasound imaging transducer extendable along at least a portion of the shaft for providing an image within a field of view; and a needle coupled and deployable from the shaft within the field of view. The needle has an artifact configured to preferentially reflect at least a portion of the ultrasound energy emanating from the ultrasound transducer back to the transducer in order to enhance imaging of the needle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2008Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicant: Gynesonics, Inc.Inventors: Michael A. Munrow, Craig Gerbi, Robert K. Deckman
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Publication number: 20090105687Abstract: Angioplasty and other dilatation devices are provided with scoring elements. The device additionally incorporates a separate drug application membrane which is used to deliver drugs and other active substances to a body lumen, typically a blood vessel. The device functions to release drug into a region of the luminal wall as the scoring structure is radially expanded into the lumen wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2008Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: AngioScore, Inc.Inventors: Robert K. Deckman, Brian Placek, Michael A. Munrow, Craig Gerbi
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Publication number: 20080154246Abstract: Surgical robots and other telepresence systems have enhanced grip actuation for manipulating tissues and objects with small sizes. A master/slave system is used in which an error signal or gain is artificially altered when grip members are near a closed configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2008Publication date: June 26, 2008Applicant: Intuitive Surgical, Inc.Inventors: William C. Nowlin, Gary S. Guthart, Robert G. Younge, Thomas G. Cooper, Craig Gerbi, Stephen J. Blumenkranz, Dean F. Hoornaert
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Patent number: 7373219Abstract: Surgical robots and other telepresence systems have enhanced grip actuation for manipulating tissues and objects with small sizes. A master/slave system is used in which an error signal or gain is artificially altered when grip members are near a closed configuration.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2005Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: Intuitive Surgical, Inc.Inventors: William C. Nowlin, Gary S. Guthart, Robert G. Younge, Tom G. Cooper, Craig Gerbi, Steven J. Blumenkranz, Dean F. Hoornaert
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Publication number: 20080091076Abstract: A medical device for managing tissue in an organ, such as the stomach, for retracting or positioning tissue and related organs to allow certain regions of the stomach to be acquired for a gastroplasty procedure. The medical device includes an elongated body having a proximal end and a distal end, and a tissue treatment device attached to the distal end of the elongated body. The tissue treatment device includes a first jaw opposite a second jaw, and each jaw is adapted to acquire tissue. A retractor is disposed along the tissue treatment device and adapted to be moveable from a delivery position to a retraction position to move or manage the tissue of the stomach. The medical device also includes a collapsible barrier disposed between the first and second jaws of the tissue treatment device to direct tissue into the first and second jaws separately.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2007Publication date: April 17, 2008Applicant: SATIETY, INC.Inventors: ALEX ROTH, CRAIG GERBI, ANDREW HANCOCK, GARY WELLER, CHRISTOPHER JULIAN, JAMES GANNOE
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Publication number: 20080091079Abstract: A medical device for managing tissue in an organ, such as the stomach, for retracting or positioning tissue and related organs to allow certain regions of the stomach to be acquired for a gastroplasty procedure. The medical device includes an elongated body having a proximal end and a distal end, and a tissue treatment device attached to the distal end of the elongated body. The tissue treatment device includes a first jaw opposite a second jaw, and each jaw is adapted to acquire tissue. A retractor is disposed along the tissue treatment device and adapted to be moveable from a delivery position to a retraction position to move or manage the tissue of the stomach. The medical device also includes a collapsible barrier disposed between the first and second jaws of the tissue treatment device to direct tissue into the first and second jaws separately.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2007Publication date: April 17, 2008Applicant: SATIETY, INC.Inventors: ALEX ROTH, CRAIG GERBI, ANDREW HANCOCK, GARY WELLER, CHRISTOPHER JULIAN, JAMES GANNOE
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Publication number: 20080091078Abstract: A medical device for managing tissue in an organ, such as the stomach, for retracting or positioning tissue and related organs to allow certain regions of the stomach to be acquired for a gastroplasty procedure. The medical device includes an elongated body having a proximal end and a distal end, and a tissue treatment device attached to the distal end of the elongated body. The tissue treatment device includes a first jaw opposite a second jaw, and each jaw is adapted to acquire tissue. A retractor is disposed along the tissue treatment device and adapted to be moveable from a delivery position to a retraction position to move or manage the tissue of the stomach. The medical device also includes a collapsible barrier disposed between the first and second jaws of the tissue treatment device to direct tissue into the first and second jaws separately.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2007Publication date: April 17, 2008Applicant: SATIETY, INC.Inventors: ALEX ROTH, CRAIG GERBI, ANDREW HANCOCK, GARY WELLER, CHRISTOPHER JULIAN, JAMES GANNOE
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Publication number: 20080091077Abstract: A medical device for managing tissue in an organ, such as the stomach, for retracting or positioning tissue and related organs to allow certain regions of the stomach to be acquired for a gastroplasty procedure. The medical device includes an elongated body having a proximal end and a distal end, and a tissue treatment device attached to the distal end of the elongated body. The tissue treatment device includes a first jaw opposite a second jaw, and each jaw is adapted to acquire tissue. A retractor is disposed along the tissue treatment device and adapted to be moveable from a delivery position to a retraction position to move or manage the tissue of the stomach. The medical device also includes a collapsible barrier disposed between the first and second jaws of the tissue treatment device to direct tissue into the first and second jaws separately.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2007Publication date: April 17, 2008Applicant: SATIETY, INC.Inventors: ALEX ROTH, CRAIG GERBI, ANDREW HANCOCK, GARY WELLER, CHRISTOPHER JULIAN, JAMES GANNOE
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Publication number: 20080033493Abstract: Uterine fibroids and other tissue masses are treated using an electrode or other treatment element introduced into a potential or peri-capsular space surrounding the fibroid under ultrasonic imaging. A therapy is delivered into the potential space by the treatment element in order to reduce or eliminate blood supply to the fibroid or other tissue mass.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2007Publication date: February 7, 2008Applicant: Gynesonics, Inc.Inventors: Robert K. Deckman, Craig Gerbi, Michael Munrow, Jordan Bajor, Jessica Grossman
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Patent number: 7306614Abstract: An overtube apparatus for insertion into a body is described herein. The assembly includes an overtube having a lumen defined throughout. The distal end of the overtube member has two or more windows in apposition configured to draw in tissue via a vacuum. A drive tube, which also defines a lumen, is inserted and is freely adjustable within the overtube. A spiral or helical fastener, which is temporarily attached to the drive tube distal end, is positioned within the overtube lumen. Endoscopic devices can be inserted within the drive tube lumen and advanced past the distal ends of both the drive tube and overtube. A pump provides the vacuum to draw apposed regions of tissue from within a hollow body organ into the windows of the overtube. Once the tissue has been invaginated, the drive tube is rotated to advance the fastener into the tissue to fasten them together.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2006Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignee: Satiety, Inc.Inventors: Gary Weller, Craig Gerbi, James Gannoe, Mark E. Deem, Douglas S. Sutton, Hanson S. Gifford, III, Bernard H. Andreas, Ronald G. French
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Publication number: 20070249939Abstract: A delivery system includes a rigid shaft, an imaging core, and an interventional core. The rigid delivery shaft has a proximal end, an angled distal tip, and an axial passage therethrough. The imaging core comprises an ultrasound imaging insert disposed within the axial passage. The imaging insert has an ultrasound array within a distal portion thereof, wherein the ultrasound array is tilted relative to a shaft axis. The interventional core comprises a curved ablation needle coupled to the rigid shaft. An angle of needle curvature may be inversely proportional to the ultrasound array tilt and tip angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2006Publication date: October 25, 2007Applicant: Gynesonics, Inc.Inventors: Craig Gerbi, Robert Deckman, Michael Munrow, Jessica Grossman
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Publication number: 20070249936Abstract: Delivery systems, and methods using the same, having an ultrasound viewing window for improved imaging and a needle for ablation treatment of target tissues. In an embodiment, the target tissue is a fibroid within a female's uterus. In an embodiment the delivery system includes a rigid shaft having a proximal end, a distal end, and an axial passage extending through the rigid shaft. In an embodiment, the axial passage is configured for removably receiving the ultrasound imaging insert having an ultrasound array disposed a distal portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2006Publication date: October 25, 2007Applicant: Gynesonics, Inc.Inventors: Robert K. Deckman, Craig Gerbi, Michael Munrow, Jessica Grossman
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Publication number: 20070233162Abstract: Methods and devices for use in tissue approximation and fixation are described herein. The present invention provides, in part, methods and devices for acquiring tissue folds in a circumferential configuration within a hollow body organ, e.g., a stomach, positioning the tissue folds for affixing within a fixation zone of the stomach, preferably to create a pouch or partition below the esophagus, and fastening the tissue folds such that a tissue ring, or stomas, forms excluding the pouch from the greater stomach cavity. The present invention further provides for a liner or bypass conduit which is affixed at a proximal end either to the tissue ring or through some other fastening mechanism. The distal end of the conduit is left either unanchored or anchored within the intestinal tract. This bypass conduit also includes a fluid bypass conduit which allows the stomach and a portion of the intestinal tract to communicate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2007Publication date: October 4, 2007Inventors: Jamy Gannoe, Craig Gerbi, Gary Weller, Matthew Collier
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Publication number: 20070233161Abstract: Devices and methods for tissue acquisition and fixation, or gastroplasty, are described. Generally, the devices of the system may be advanced in a minimally invasive manner within a patient's body to create one or more plications within the hollow body organ. A tissue treatment device attached to a distal end of a flexible elongated member and has a cartridge member opposite an anvil member. The cartridge member and the anvil member are movable between a closed position and an open position relative to one another, and the cartridge member is re-loadable with a removable staple cartridge to form multiple plications within the organ with the same tissue treatment device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2007Publication date: October 4, 2007Applicant: SATIETY, INC.Inventors: Gary Weller, Alex Roth, Christopher Julian, James Gannoe, Andrew Hancock, Craig Gerbi, Crystine Lee
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Publication number: 20070208360Abstract: Methods and devices for providing a minimally-invasive placement of a mechanical structure for reducing the volume of a hollow body organ. Anchors may be secured within the hollow body organ and then cinched together using a tensioning member to form a stricture within the hollow body organ. In another embodiment a tensioning member may be threaded along the hollow body organ and then cinched to reduce the volume. The strictures may be placed anywhere within the hollow body organ, and more than one stricture may be formed within the hollow body organ.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2007Publication date: September 6, 2007Inventors: Denise Demarais, James Gannoe, Craig Gerbi
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Publication number: 20070181138Abstract: Methods and devices for partitioning or plicating a region of a hollow body organ are described herein. These methods and devices relate generally to medical apparatus and methods and more particularly to devices and methods for affecting a change in the function of a hollow body organ, particularly a stomach, intestine or gastrointestinal tract. These changes can include reducing the volume capacity of the hollow body organ, disrupting or altering the normal function of the organ, functionally excluding certain sections of the organ either by affixing adjacent tissue or excising certain regions, or affecting or correcting the response of the organ to naturally occurring stimuli, such as ingestion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2007Publication date: August 9, 2007Inventors: Jamy Gannoe, Gary Weller, Douglas Sutton, Craig Gerbi
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Publication number: 20070173869Abstract: Magnetic anchoring devices are disclosed herein. Expandable devices that are inserted into the stomach of a patient are attached to its interior wall by magnetically coupling. Such expandable devices, like inflatable balloons, comprise at least one magnetic device, which may be a magnet, a magnetizable material, or a magnetic metal. The magnetic device may be positioned on the external or interior surface of the expandable device or may be integral thereto. The magnetic device is magnetically coupled to a magnetic anchor positioned on a surface of the stomach wall. In this way, the expandable devices are anchored to the stomach walls, preventing migration of the device to other areas of the body where they may become obstructions and pose health risks.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2007Publication date: July 26, 2007Inventors: Jamy Gannoe, Craig Gerbi
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Publication number: 20070167960Abstract: Devices and methods for tissue acquisition and fixation, or gastroplasty, are described. Generally, the devices of the system may be advanced in a minimally invasive manner within a patient's body to create one or more plications within the hollow body organ. A tissue treatment device attached to a distal end of a flexible elongated member and has a cartridge member opposite an anvil member. The cartridge member and the anvil member are movable between a closed position and an open position, and a moveable barrier is disposed between the cartridge and anvil members to help acquire a dual fold of tissue. The tissue treatment device can be repositioned to form multiple plications within the organ.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2006Publication date: July 19, 2007Inventors: Alex Roth, Andrew Hancock, Chris Pamichev, John Gaiser, Gary Weller, Christopher Julian, James Gannoe, Craig Gerbi, Crystine Lee