Patents by Inventor Richard Pellegrino
Richard Pellegrino 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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Publication number: 20130012935Abstract: Methods and systems for modulating intraosseous nerves (e.g., nerves within bone) are provided. For example, the methods and systems described herein may be used to modulate (e.g., denervate, ablate) basivertebral nerves within vertebrae. The modulation of the basivertebral nerves may facilitate treatment of chronic back pain.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: Relievant Medsystems, Inc.Inventors: Richard Pellegrino, Paula Papineau, John S. Crombie, Samit Patel, Thomas Ryan
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Publication number: 20130012936Abstract: Methods and systems for modulating intraosseous nerves (e.g., nerves within bone) are provided. For example, the methods and systems described herein may be used to modulate (e.g., denervate, ablate) basivertebral nerves within vertebrae. The modulation of the basivertebral nerves may facilitate treatment of chronic back pain.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: Relievant Medsystems, Inc.Inventors: Richard Pellegrino, Paula Papineau, John S. Crombie, Samit Patel, Thomas Ryan
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Publication number: 20130006232Abstract: Methods and systems for modulating intraosseous nerves (e.g., nerves within bone) are provided. For example, the methods and systems described herein may be used to modulate (e.g., denervate, ablate) basivertebral nerves within vertebrae. The modulation of the basivertebral nerves may facilitate treatment of chronic back pain.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: Relievant Medsystems, Inc.Inventors: RICHARD PELLEGRINO, Paula Papineau, John S. Crombie, Samit Patel, Thomas Ryan
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Publication number: 20130006233Abstract: System and methods for channeling a path into bone include a trocar having a proximal end, distal end and a central channel disposed along a central axis of the trocar. The trocar includes a radial opening at or near the distal end of the trocar. The system includes a curveable cannula sized to be received in the central channel, the curveable cannula comprising a curveable distal end configured to be extended laterally outward from the radial opening in a curved path extending away from the trocar. The curveable cannula has a central passageway having a diameter configured allow a probe to be delivered through the central passageway to a location beyond the curved path.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: RELIEVANT MEDSYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Richard Pellegrino, Paula Papineau, John S. Crombie, Samit Patel, Thomas Ryan
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Publication number: 20120330180Abstract: System and methods for channeling a path into bone include a trocar having a proximal end, distal end and a central channel disposed along a central axis of the trocar. The trocar includes a radial opening at or near the distal end of the trocar. The system includes a curveable cannula sized to be received in the central channel, the curveable cannula comprising a curveable distal end configured to be extended laterally outward from the radial opening in a curved path extending away from the trocar. The curveable cannula has a central passageway having a diameter configured allow a probe to be delivered through the central passageway to a location beyond the curved path.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2012Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: RELIEVANT MEDSYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Richard Pellegrino, Samit Patel, Harold Carrison
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Publication number: 20120330300Abstract: System and methods for channeling a path into bone include a trocar having a proximal end, distal end and a central channel disposed along a central axis of the trocar. The trocar includes a radial opening at or near the distal end of the trocar. The system includes a curveable cannula sized to be received in the central channel, the curveable cannula comprising a curveable distal end configured to be extended laterally outward from the radial opening in a curved path extending away from the trocar. The curveable cannula has a central passageway having a diameter configured allow a probe to be delivered through the central passageway to a location beyond the curved path.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2012Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: RELIEVANT MEDSYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Richard Pellegrino, Paula Papineau, John S. Crombie, Samit Patel, Thomas Ryan
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Publication number: 20120330301Abstract: System and methods for channeling a path into bone include a trocar having a proximal end, distal end and a central channel disposed along a central axis of the trocar. The trocar includes a radial opening at or near the distal end of the trocar. The system includes a curveable cannula sized to be received in the central channel, the curveable cannula comprising a curveable distal end configured to be extended laterally outward from the radial opening in a curved path extending away from the trocar. The curveable cannula has a central passageway having a diameter configured allow a probe to be delivered through the central passageway to a location beyond the curved path.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2012Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: RELIEVANT MEDSYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Richard Pellegrino, Samit Patel, Harold Carrison
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Patent number: 8333773Abstract: A remotely-activated injection device for use in vertebroplasty is provided to inject a flourescent probe material into a patient. The injection device includes a pump defining an injection chamber having an exit opening; an actuator; and a cable having a first end coupled to the actuator, and a second end remotely engaging the pump. The actuator remotely controls the pump by responsive movement of the cable to thereby cause injection of a flourescent probe material from the injection chamber of the pump through the exit opening to the patient.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2007Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: DePuy Spine, Inc.Inventors: Thomas M. DiMauro, John Crombie, Richard Pellegrino, Martin A. Reynolds
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Publication number: 20120143333Abstract: An intervertebral connection system wherein the bone anchor has a helical configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2011Publication date: June 7, 2012Inventors: Richard Pellegrino, Christine Rusbarsky
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Patent number: 8092528Abstract: An intervertebral connection system wherein the bone anchor has a helical configuration, and includes: a) a conformable synthetic ligament having a first end portion and an intermediate portion, b) an anchor having a central axis which is axially implantable into a bone in a patient's body, the anchor comprising: i) a distal head portion having a body portion that extends transverse to the central axis of the anchor, a proximal surface, a distal surface, and an axially extending throughhole; ii) a first helix extending axially from the body portion of the distal head portion and transversely engagable with the bone, the first helix having a proximal end, a distal end, and an intermediate portion having an opening, wherein the first end portion of the ligament extends through the throughhole of the distal head portion of the anchor, and wherein the intermediate portion of the ligament extends through the opening within the intermediate portion of the helix.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2005Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: DePuy Spine, Inc.Inventors: Richard Pellegrino, Christine Rusbarsky
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Patent number: 8066713Abstract: A remotely-activated injection device for use in vertebroplasty is provided to inject a flourescent probe material into a patient. The injection device includes a pump defining an injection chamber having an exit opening; an actuator; and a cable having a first end coupled to the actuator, and a second end remotely engaging the pump. The actuator remotely controls the pump by responsive movement of the cable to thereby cause injection of a flourescent probe material from the injection chamber of the pump through the exit opening to the patient.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2003Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: DePuy Spine, Inc.Inventors: Thomas M. DiMauro, John Crombie, Richard Pellegrino
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Publication number: 20110034884Abstract: System and methods for channeling a path into bone include a trocar having a proximal end, distal end and a central channel disposed along a central axis of the trocar. The trocar includes a radial opening at or near the distal end of the trocar. The system includes a curveable cannula sized to be received in the central channel, the curveable cannula comprising a curveable distal end configured to be extended laterally outward from the radial opening in a curved path extending away from the trocar. The curveable cannula has a central passageway having a diameter configured allow a probe to be delivered through the central passageway to a location beyond the curved path.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2010Publication date: February 10, 2011Applicant: RELIEVANT MEDSYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Richard Pellegrino, Samit Patel, Harold Carrison
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Publication number: 20100324506Abstract: System and methods for channeling a path into bone include a trocar having a proximal end, distal end and a central channel disposed along a central axis of the trocar. The trocar includes a radial opening at or near the distal end of the trocar. The system includes a curveable cannula sized to be received in the central channel, the curveable cannula comprising a curveable distal end configured to be extended laterally outward from the radial opening in a curved path extending away from the trocar. The curveable cannula has a central passageway having a diameter configured allow a probe to be delivered through the central passageway to a location beyond the curved path.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: RELIEVANT MEDSYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Richard Pellegrino, Samit Patel, Harold Carrison
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Publication number: 20100222777Abstract: A method and apparatus for treating an intraosseous nerve. The method includes positioning a hollow shaft through the cortical shell of a vertebral body and into a cancellous bone region of the vertebral body. The hollow shaft includes an annular wall having a longitudinal bore therein, a proximal portion and a distal portion, and a first window extending transversely through the annular wall. An electrosurgical probe is advanced within the longitudinal bore from the proximal portion toward the distal portion. The electrosurgical probe includes a first treatment element at a distal end of the probe, wherein the first treatment element being in electrical connection with a power supply. The first treatment element is slidably disposed within the longitudinal bore so that the first treatment element is advanced radially outward from the window and shaft to affect treatment of the intraosseous nerve within the cancellous bone region.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2009Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: RELIEVANT MEDSYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey Sutton, Thomas Ryan, Samit Patel, Richard Pellegrino
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Publication number: 20100185161Abstract: System and methods for channeling a path into bone include a trocar having a proximal end, distal end and a central channel disposed along a central axis of the trocar. The trocar includes a radial opening at or near the distal end of the trocar. The system includes a curveable cannula sized to be received in the central channel, the curveable cannula comprising a curveable distal end configured to be extended laterally outward from the radial opening in a curved path extending away from the trocar. The curveable cannula has a central passageway having a diameter configured allow a probe to be delivered through the central passageway to a location beyond the curved path.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2010Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: RELIEVANT MEDSYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Richard Pellegrino, Samit Patel, Harold Carrison
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Patent number: 7749218Abstract: This invention relates to a method of straddling an intraosseous nerve with an energy transmitting device to improve the therapeutic treatment of the nerve.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2005Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: Relievant Medsystems, Inc.Inventors: Richard Pellegrino, Paula Papineau, John S. Crombie, Samit Patel, Thomas Ryan
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Publication number: 20100094269Abstract: System and methods are shown having a tube-within-tube assembly with a deployable curved deflectable tube or cannula that deploys from a straight cannula or trocar. The curved cannula has pre-curved distal end to create an angular range of 0° to 180° when fully deployed from the straight trocar. The curve is configured such that the flexible element carrying a treatment device can navigate through the angular range of deployment of the curved cannula. The curved cannula allows the flexible element to navigate through a curve within bone without veering off towards an unintended direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2009Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: RELIEVANT MEDSYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Richard Pellegrino, Samit Patel, Harold Carrison
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Publication number: 20090270872Abstract: A remotely-activated injection device for use in vertebroplasty is provided to inject a flourescent probe material into a patient. The injection device includes a pump defining an injection chamber having an exit opening; an actuator; and a cable having a first end coupled to the actuator, and a second end remotely engaging the pump. The actuator remotely controls the pump by responsive movement of the cable to thereby cause injection of a flourescent probe material from the injection chamber of the pump through the exit opening to the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2009Publication date: October 29, 2009Applicant: DePuy Spine, Inc.Inventors: Thomas M. DiMauro, John Crombie, Richard Pellegrino, Martin A. Reynolds
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Patent number: 7594888Abstract: An expandable port for minimally invasive surgery includes a first section, a second section, and at least one intermediate section. The port is expandable from a closed configuration in which the first section is proximate the second section along at least a portion of a length of the first section to an expanded configuration in which the first section is spaced apart from the second section. The intermediate portion spans a gap between the first section and the second section when the port is in the expanded configuration.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2005Date of Patent: September 29, 2009Assignee: Depuy Spine, Inc.Inventors: Douglas Raymond, Shinikequa White, Richard Pellegrino, Anthony Carlone, William Frasier, Connie Marchek, Brian Murphy, Stephen Connolly, Nicholas Pavento, Sara Dziedzic
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Patent number: 7531002Abstract: A prosthetic endplate having articulation surfaces whose relative positions can be post-operatively adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2004Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Depuy Spine, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Karl Sutton, Edward John Crowe, Kristy Lynn Davis, Michael O'Neil, Richard Pellegrino, Hassan Serhan