Patents by Inventor Joshua Stopek

Joshua Stopek 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).

  • Single port device including selectively closeable openings
    Patent number: 8795164
    Abstract: A surgical port includes a port body having a lumen extending therethrough and a plate having an opening. The port body may be made from foam. The port is configured such that rotation of the plate with respect to the port body aligns the opening and lumen defining a passage therethrough for the insertion of surgical instruments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventor: Joshua Stopek
  • Therapeutic implant
    Patent number: 8758800
    Abstract: Surgical implants are provided which include a film comprising a first therapeutic agent and a mesh comprising a second therapeutic agent. The surgical implant includes a film in direct contact with a mesh. The first therapeutic agent may be released at a first rate and the second therapeutic agent may be released at a second rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Joshua Stopek, Amin Elachchabi, Daniel Broom, Garrett Ebersole
  • Therapeutic implant
    Patent number: 8758798
    Abstract: Surgical implants are provided which include a film comprising a first therapeutic agent and a mesh comprising a second therapeutic agent. The surgical implant includes a film in direct contact with a mesh. The first therapeutic agent may be released at a first rate and the second therapeutic agent may be released at a second rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Joshua Stopek, Amin Elachchabi, Daniel Broom, Garrett Ebersole
  • Therapeutic implant
    Patent number: 8758799
    Abstract: Surgical implants are provided which include a film comprising a first therapeutic agent and a mesh comprising a second therapeutic agent. The surgical implant includes a film in direct contact with a mesh. The first therapeutic agent may be released at a first rate and the second therapeutic agent may be released at a second rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Joshua Stopek, Amin Elachchabi, Daniel Broom, Garrett Ebersole
  • SINGLE PORT DEVICE INCLUDING SELECTIVELY CLOSEABLE OPENINGS
    Publication number: 20140171745
    Abstract: A surgical port includes a port body having a lumen extending therethrough and a plate having an opening. The port body may be made from foam. The port is configured such that rotation of the plate with respect to the port body aligns the opening and lumen defining a passage therethrough for the insertion of surgical instruments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Covidien LP
    Inventor: Joshua Stopek
  • Access assembly insertion device
    Patent number: 8753267
    Abstract: An improved access assembly is provided. The access assembly includes an inflatable port and an inflation cannula operably connected to the inflatable port to provide inflation fluid to the inflatable port. The inflatable port may be tapered in a first configuration to facilitate insertion through tissue. The inflation port defines a substantially hour-glass shape when in a second configuration to create a seal within an opening in the tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventor: Joshua Stopek
  • Hydrogel implants with varying degrees of crosslinking
    Patent number: 8754564
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a hydrogel composition and methods of using the same. The hydrogel composition may include precursors that react with each other upon contact as well as precursors that react upon contact with an initiator. In embodiments, the resulting hydrogels may have varying levels of crosslinking with both denser and less dense regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Steven Bennett, Nathaniel Mast, Kevin Lavigne, Walter Skalla, Timothy Sargeant, Joshua Stopek
  • SEAL ANCHOR INTRODUCER INCLUDING BIASING MEMBER
    Publication number: 20140163324
    Abstract: A seal anchor member has opposing ends that define a longitudinal axis. The seal anchor member is adapted to transition between an expanded condition and a compressed condition to facilitate securing of the seal anchor member within a tissue tract in a substantially sealed relationship. The seal anchor member includes a biasing member positioned along the longitudinal axis. The biasing member is configured and adapted to facilitate the transition between the expanded and compressed conditions. The seal anchor member further includes at least one lumen extending through the seal anchor member for slidably receiving a surgical instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventor: Joshua Stopek
  • Seal anchor introducer including biasing member
    Patent number: 8740904
    Abstract: A seal anchor member has opposing ends that define a longitudinal axis. The seal anchor member is adapted to transition between an expanded condition and a compressed condition to facilitate securing of the seal anchor member within a tissue tract in a substantially sealed relationship. The seal anchor member includes a biasing member positioned along the longitudinal axis. The biasing member is configured and adapted to facilitate the transition between the expanded and compressed conditions. The seal anchor member further includes at least one lumen extending through the seal anchor member for slidably receiving a surgical instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventor: Joshua Stopek
  • Hydrogel implants with varying degrees of crosslinking
    Patent number: 8734930
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a hydrogel composition and methods of using the same. The hydrogel composition may include precursors that react with each other upon contact as well as precursors that react upon contact with an initiator. In embodiments, the resulting hydrogels may have varying levels of crosslinking with both denser and less dense regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Steven Bennett, Nathaniel Mast, Kevin Lavigne, Walter Skalla, Timothy Sargeant, Joshua Stopek, Saumya Banerjee, Arpan Desai
  • Surgical instrument debris collection system
    Patent number: 8734730
    Abstract: The presently disclosed debris collection system includes an elongate body having a first end, a second end, and a bore extending therethrough. The first end of the elongate body is hermetically closed while the second end has an opening. The elongated body is made of an impermeable material. A cap fixed to the elongated body and has a bore extending therethrough. A port, which is attached to the cap, is designed for introducing fluid into the elongated body. A watertight seal, such as a gasket, is attached to the cap. The seal is also made of an impermeable material. In operation, a liquid is introduced into the debris collection system. A surgical tool must then be introduced into the system. Thereafter, a vortex is created within the system to debride debris from the surgical tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Michael A. Soltz, Joshua Stopek, Wojciech Kisiel, Jennifer Broom
  • IMPLANTABLE DEVICES INCLUDING A MESH AND A PIVOTABLE FILM
    Publication number: 20140142520
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to implantable medical devices which include at least one mesh and at least one film pivotably attached to the mesh.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Joshua STOPEK, Amin ELACHCHABI, Daniel BROOM, Garrett EBERSOLE, Ryan WITHERELL
  • WOUND CLOSURE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140114350
    Abstract: Biocompatible wound closure devices including an elongate body and a plug member are useful for wound repair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Timothy Sargeant, Gregory Fischvogt, Michael Bettuchi, Gerald Hodgkinson, Joshua Stopek, Arpan Desai, Atu Agawu, Saumya Banerjee
  • Osteochondral implant comprising osseous phase and chondral phase
    Patent number: 8697111
    Abstract: An osteochondral plug includes a first scaffold and a second scaffold. The first scaffold may be a solid scaffold containing one or more pendant reactive functional groups. The second scaffold capable of reacting with the one or more pendant reactive functional groups of the first scaffold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Arpan Desai, Timothy Sargeant, Atu Agawu, Joshua Stopek
  • Single port device including selectively closeable openings
    Patent number: 8684918
    Abstract: A surgical port includes a port body having a lumen extending therethrough and a plate having an opening. The port body may be made from foam. The port is configured such that rotation of the plate with respect to the port body aligns the opening and lumen defining a passage therethrough for the insertion of surgical instruments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventor: Joshua Stopek
  • Methods of forming self-supporting films for delivery of therapeutic agents
    Patent number: 8632839
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to self-supporting films for delivery of a therapeutic agent containing at least one hydrophobic polymer and at least one therapeutic agent. Methods of forming the self-supporting films are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Joshua Stopek, Garrett Ebersole, Amin Elachchabi, Daniel Broom
  • Wound closure device
    Patent number: 8617206
    Abstract: Biocompatible wound closure devices including an elongate body and a plug member are useful for wound repair. A wound closure device includes an elongate body defining a longitudinal axis and having a proximal end and a distal end, and a plug member having a tissue facing surface and including a first shaped section and a second shaped section, each of the first and second shaped sections having an abutment surface. The first and second shaped sections are movable about a hinge between a collapsed position in which the abutment surfaces extend away from the longitudinal axis of the elongate body and a deployed position in which the abutment surfaces abut and are substantially aligned with the longitudinal axis of the elongate body, the abutment surfaces controlling a deployed angle of the tissue facing surface of the plug member with respect to the elongate body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Timothy Sargeant, Gregory Fischvogt, Michael Bettuchi, Gerald Hodgkinson, Joshua Stopek, Arpan Desai, Atu Agawu, Saumya Banerjee
  • Hydrogel implants with varying degrees of crosslinking
    Patent number: 8591950
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a hydrogel composition and methods of using the same. The hydrogel composition may include precursors that react with each other upon contact as well as precursors that react upon contact with an initiator. In embodiments, the resulting hydrogels may have varying levels of crosslinking with both denser and less dense regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Steven Bennett, Nathaniel Mast, Kevin Lavigne, Walter Skalla, Timothy Sargeant, Joshua Stopek
  • ANASTOMOSIS SHEATH AND METHOD OF USE
    Publication number: 20130304101
    Abstract: The invention relates a sheath that is affixed to a body lumen, proximal to an anastomosis site. The sheath includes a sleeve defining a passage. A grasping structure is positioned distally of the distal opening of the sheath to facilitate elongation of the sleeve from a first length to a second longer length. A method for using the sheath is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventors: Joshua Stopek, Jacqueline Jones, Amin Elachchabi
  • Implantable devices including a mesh and a pivotable film
    Patent number: 8579924
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to implantable medical devices which include at least one mesh and at least one film pivotably attached to the mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Joshua Stopek, Amin Elachchabi, Daniel Broom, Garrett Ebersole, Ryan Witherell