With Optical Fiber Patents (Class 606/15)
  • Patent number: 11135092
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a multi-core optical fiber cable (MCF). In some embodiments, an MCF comprises a plurality of cores surrounded by a cladding and a coating surrounding the cladding, wherein a refractive index of one or more of the plurality of cores is greater than a refractive index of the cladding. The MCF further comprises a probe comprising a probe tip coupled with a distal end of the MCF and a lens located at a distal end of the probe tip. In some embodiments, the lens is configured to translate laser light from the distal end of the MCF to create a multi-spot pattern of laser beams on a target surface and a distal end of the MCF terminates at an interface with the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Chenguang Diao, Mark Harrison Farley, Alireza Mirsepassi, Ronald T. Smith, Dean Richardson
  • Patent number: 11135446
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a medical device (10) intended to be worn by a human wearer, the medical device (10) defining a first area (26) and a second area (28), each area being intended to be positioned in front of a respective eye of the wearer. The medical device (10) comprises a frame (10), comprising a rear shell (34). The rear shell (34) defines a hole (54) facing the first area (26) and the rear shell (34) is opaque facing the second area (28). The medical device (10) also comprises an optical module (20) in the first area (26). The optical module (20) comprises a light source (70) and an optical system (72). The optical module (20) is arranged to send a light beam through the hole (54). The medical device (10) further comprises an electronic circuitry (18), adapted to command the optical module (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventors: Joël Chavas, Guillaume Chenegros, Benjamin Benosman
  • Patent number: 11123138
    Abstract: The invention relates to a medical device intended to be inserted into the lumen of a cavity of the human or animal body or in the lumen of a blood vessel. The invention is characterised in that said device comprises a probe (5) suitable for delivering a treatment by the endovenous route, and, at the terminal end thereof, a hooked flexible tip (1), wherein the angle ? formed between the extension of the end portion of the probe (5) and the extension of the end portion of the tip (1) is strictly less than +90°, said tip comprising means (3) for delivering a treatment. The invention is particularly applicable to the treatment of varicose veins, reticular veins and spider veins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Inventors: Paul Pittaluga, Sylvain Chastanet
  • Patent number: 11109913
    Abstract: Catheter for real-time evaluation of duodenal ablation, the catheter including an expandable member configured to stretch the duodenal wall and to generate a fixed distance between a center of the catheter and the duodenal wall; a laser transmitting element coupled with the catheter body and configured to transmit a first laser beam and a second laser beam; wherein the first laser beam is configured to cause ablative damage in a region of the duodenal wall as a result of its impingement thereon, and wherein the second laser beam is configured to detect modifications in the region of the duodenal wall resulting from the impingement of the first laser beam thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: DIGMA MEDICAL LTD.
    Inventors: Yonatan Shamay, Boaz Behar, Ilan Ben Oren
  • Patent number: 11051867
    Abstract: A system for monitoring electrical activity at an ablation site where the system includes an ablation device having an elongate, flexible shaft and a distal treatment section for delivering ablation energy to target tissue, a first electrode mounted on the distal treatment section, a second electrode mounted on the distal treatment section where the second electrode is spaced from the first electrode a distance (D1), a plurality of conducting elements extending along the distal treatment section and being connected to the first electrode and the second electrode, the plurality of conducting elements for connecting the first electrode and the second electrode to an electrophysiological recording system, a processing device programmed to receive the electrical information from the ablation site from the first electrode and the second electrode, and an electrophysiological recording system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Adagio Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexei Babkin, Meital Mazor, Larry Varnado
  • Patent number: 11033330
    Abstract: Methods and systems for modifying tissue use a pressurized fluid stream carrying coherent light energy. The methods and systems may be used for resecting and debulking soft and hard biological tissues. The coherent light is focused within a stream of fluid to deliver energy to the tissue to be treated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: AQUABEAM, LLC
    Inventors: Nikolai Aljuri, Rodney C. Perkins
  • Patent number: 11006996
    Abstract: A catheter for intravascular lithotripsy including an outer wall, at least one torus balloon mounted on the outer wall, a first lumen extending therein, and at least one energy emitter for emitting energy to break down calcium. The at least one energy emitter is mounted on the balloon and a connector connects the energy emitter to an external energy source, the connector extending through the catheter. The balloon has a passageway for blood flow therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Inventor: Daniel Ezra Walzman
  • Patent number: 10993768
    Abstract: Radial emission optical fiber terminations that include conical elements can prevent axial emission and redirect all incident light to radial positions. One termination includes an optical fiber having an up-tapered terminus, the up-tapered terminus having a maximum taper diameter of at least 1.5 times the core diameter and ending at a cone-tip which has an apex angle in a range of about 70° to about 100°. Another termination includes a fiber cap that is a unitary construction of a glass tube and an optical element that bisects the glass tube. The glass tube includes an open end adapted to receive an optical fiber and a closed end. The optical element, consisting of fused quartz or fused silica, has an input face proximal to the open end of the glass tube and a conical face proximal to the closed end of the glass tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Cyclone Biosciences, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen E. Griffin, Stuart F. Watson
  • Patent number: 10987520
    Abstract: Disclosed is a novel vascular optical fiber guidewire. The vascular optical fiber guidewire includes a metal axial wire and an optical fiber surrounding the metal axial wire. The optical fiber includes a core wire and a cladding layer covering the core wire. For above vascular optical fiber guidewire, in a part of the optical guidewire that is required to transmit light, a bending radius of the optical fiber around the metal axial wire is greater than a critical bending radius, and in a region of the optical fiber guidewire that is required to scatter light, the bending radius of the optical fiber around the metal axial wire is less than the critical bending radius. The present disclosure is capable of entering a blood vessel by a percutaneous puncture technique, guiding the optical fiber guidewire through a medical imaging device in a blood vessel, and performing side-illumination on the head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Inventor: Hua Shang
  • Patent number: 10959773
    Abstract: An ablation catheter comprises an elongated catheter body; at least one ablation element disposed in a distal portion which is adjacent the distal end of the catheter body; an illumination optical element disposed in the distal portion, the illumination optical element being light-transmissive to emit light from the illumination optical element to the targeted tissue region; and a collection optical element disposed in the distal portion, the collection optical element being light-transmissive to collect one or more of returned, backscattered or newly excited light from the targeted tissue region. The illumination or excitation optical element and the collection optical element are axially spaced from one another and axially optically isolated from one another within the distal portion to substantially prevent light from traveling between the illumination optical element and the collection optical element along a path within the distal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: St. Jude Medical, LLC
    Inventors: John W. Sliwa, Stephen A. Morse, Zhenyi Ma
  • Patent number: 10940038
    Abstract: Cataract surgery is in recent years more and more augmented and supported by the application of laser cuts in the eye tissue. Such laser systems are separate units from the phacoemulsification system units that are usually used for cataract extraction. The laser systems require the patient to be positioned under the laser unit and then being moved under the surgical microscope next to the phacoemulsification unit. The here described invention relates to systems combining several aspects of the laser system and the phacoemulsification system. In particular, this invention relates to combining at least some parts of the control system and the housing for both systems and thereby minimizing and optimizing setup time, operating room footprint, patient flow and cost. Furthermore the here disclosed invention relates to integrating the laser system under the surgical microscope and thereby significantly reducing the surgery setup and complexity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Lensar, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Horvath, Vanessa Isabella Vera
  • Patent number: 10925769
    Abstract: An apparatus for disruption of cataracts in lens tissue. The apparatus includes a housing; a source of pulsed laser radiation; and an optical waveguide. The optical waveguide is configured to transmit the pulsed laser radiation from the source of pulsed laser radiation, and is coupleable to the source of pulsed laser radiation at a proximal end of the optical waveguide to receive the pulsed laser radiation from the source of pulsed laser radiation. The apparatus also includes a driving mechanism coupled to the optical waveguide for controllably changing the position of the optical waveguide relative to a distal end of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Light Matter Interaction Inc.
    Inventor: Darren Kraemer
  • Patent number: 10912612
    Abstract: A medical device that includes a hand piece; a beam fiber; and a beam disperser located at a distal end of the beam fiber through which beam energy is dispersed. The beam disperser includes one face, or a plurality of substantially planar faces through which the beam energy is dispersed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Gyrus Acmi, Inc.
    Inventor: Nikhil Murdeshwar
  • Patent number: 10905440
    Abstract: 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 distal opening at the distal end of the trocar. The system includes a curved cannula sized to be received in the central channel, the curved cannula comprising a curved distal end configured to be extended outward from the distal opening to generate a curved path extending away from the trocar. The curved cannula has a central passageway having a diameter configured to allow a treatment device to be delivered through the central passageway to a location beyond the curved path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Relievant Medsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard C. Pellegrino, Samit Patel, Harold Carrison
  • Patent number: 10892397
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for a self-monitoring conducting system that can respond to temperature, strain, and/or radiation changes via the use of optical fibers. The self-monitoring conducting system comprises a conducting component integrated with one or more optical fibers. The temperature, strain, and/or radiation changes can be sensed or detected via optical interrogation of the one or more optical fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Justin Schwartz, Federico Scurti, Samuel Rogers, Wan Kan Chan
  • Patent number: 10888307
    Abstract: A method of performing a coronary bypass procedure is performed by a flexible apparatus controlled by at least one controller, the method may include acts of: percutaneously situating the flexible apparatus into a first artery coupled to connective tissue of a chest wall; transluminally detaching at least a portion of the first artery from the connective tissue by applying ultrasound signals of a first type emitted by at least one transducer of the flexible apparatus; steering at least a portion of the detached portion first artery from a current location to a bypass location at a target artery by applying a force transmitted through the flexible apparatus situated within the first artery; and coupling, by the flexible apparatus situated within the first artery, the first artery to the target artery at the bypass location to establish flow communication between the first artery and the target artery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Aleksandra Popovic, Ralf Seip, David Paul Noonan
  • Patent number: 10849697
    Abstract: A surgical system comprises a surgical hub coupleable to inventory items of an institution. The inventory items include medical devices. The surgical hub comprises a processor, a memory, and a cloud-based analytics system. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to communicate with the inventory items. The cloud-based analytics system is coupled to the surgical hub, and comprises a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive data associated with the inventory items, determine availability of inventory items based on unique identifiers and system-defined constraints, generate a cloud interface for the institution, and transmit an alert for each inventory item determined as not available based on the system-defined constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Ethicon LLC
    Inventors: David C. Yates, Jason L. Harris, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Gregory J. Bakos
  • Patent number: 10835723
    Abstract: A method of treating a sinus cavity of a subject includes advancing a distal portion of a light source through a drainage pathway of a sinus cavity and into the sinus cavity and visually observing a transdermal light emitted from the light source. A distal portion of a substantially rigid inner guide member of a balloon dilation catheter is advanced into the drainage pathway, the balloon dilation catheter including a movable shaft including a balloon that is slidably mounted on the substantially rigid inner guide member. The movable shaft and balloon are advanced distally over the substantially rigid inner guide member to place a portion of the balloon in the drainage pathway whereby the balloon is inflated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Entellus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Hanson, John R. Drontle, Chad Harris, Matthew Higgins
  • Patent number: 10820942
    Abstract: Embodiments include a catheter system comprising an elongated housing having a housing channel disposed between a first proximal end and a first distal end. The first distal end includes a ramp, having an inclining proximal section and an apex section, and a nose section. The catheter system further includes a rail wire channel in communication with the ramp but not the nose section and a laser delivery member being at least partially disposed within the housing channel and movable therein. In some embodiments, the catheter system includes a rail wire fixedly attached to and terminating at the first distal end of the elongated housing, wherein the rail wire extends through the rail wire channel, and wherein the laser delivery member is slidably coupled to the rail wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: THE SPECTRANETICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Thomas Hendrick, Ali Hartley, Grant Donnelly Foy
  • Patent number: 10813690
    Abstract: A catheter enables real-time light measurements, for example, without limitation, diffuse reflectance, fluorescence, etc., from biological materials, such as tissue (including blood), while performing RF ablation. The catheter tip design isolates illumination and collection paths within the tip electrode such that light for illuminating the tissue of interest (e.g., cardiac tissue or blood) is isolated within the tip electrode from light that returns from the tissue to the catheter tip, and vice versa. Such a design advantageously avoids saturation of the optical detector, and ensures diffusion of the illumination light within the medium of interest. The catheter has a catheter body and a tip electrode with a shell wall and a hollow cavity. The shell wall has at least an illumination opening and a collection opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: BIOSENSE WEBSTER, INC.
    Inventor: James K. Lee
  • Patent number: 10799291
    Abstract: A method of treating a mobile target tissue with a laser beam includes: providing a laser device for generating a laser beam and providing an optical fiber having a delivery end for guiding the laser beam to the target tissue; a controller causes the laser device to generate one or more laser pulses substantially along the same longitudinal axis. The controller causes the laser device to provide one or more laser pulses. The one or more pulses are selected to allow a vapor bubble formed by the one or more pulse to expand an amount sufficient to displace a substantial portion of the liquid medium from the space between the delivery end of the fiber and the target tissue. The one or more pulses are delivered to the target tissue through the vapor bubble after the vapor bubble has reached its maximum extent and has begun to collapse to reduce retropulsion of the mobile target tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: LUMENIS LTD.
    Inventors: Tal Waisman, Arkady Khachaturov, Assaf Preiss
  • Patent number: 10799293
    Abstract: A system and devices for ablation and removal of occlusions from blood vessels is provided. Laser cutting systems and mechanical cutting systems are provided in catheter devices, the cutting systems operable to ablate, cut, dislodge, and otherwise remove occlusions within a blood vessel that may limit or prevent proper circulation. Catheter systems comprise distal end features adapted to cut and remove at least portions of an occlusion that generally correspond to dimensions of an inner lumen of a catheter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: THE SPECTRANETICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Thomas Hendrick, Kenneth P. Grace
  • Patent number: 10792102
    Abstract: A laser tip, a laser treatment tool, a laser treatment device and a laser treatment system are provided for performing laser treatment surgery and minimizing any bleeding. A laser tip is attachable to a laser radiation opening located at the tip end of a laser transmission tube. The laser tip includes an attaching portion detachable from the laser radiation opening and a contact portion contactable with biological tissue. The contact portion is at the front of the attaching portion in the direction in which the laser light exits the laser radiation opening. An open space is located between the contact portion and the attaching portion, and a coupler couples a part of the contact portion and a part of the attaching portion. The contact portion has a reflective surface at a rear end thereof which reflects the laser light toward the coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignees: J. Morita Mfg. Corp., National University Corporation Kobe University
    Inventors: Yoshihide Okagami, Akihito Hongo, Yoshiteru Tamura, Katsumi Hiyoshi, Haruhiko Murakami, Takeshi Azuma, Yoshinori Morita
  • Patent number: 10786297
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include methods of performing a cardiac surgical procedure on a subject. The methods include performing the cardiac surgical procedure in combination with pulmonary vein isolation and left atrial appendage modification. Kits for use in performing a cardiac surgical procedure are also provided, the kits including a device configured to perform a pulmonary vein isolation procedure, and a device configured to perform a left atrial appendage modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Charles Somers Living Trust
    Inventors: James Longoria, Roy Chin
  • Patent number: 10780295
    Abstract: Methods and devices for suppressing clinical symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS) by irradiating a subject exhibiting the symptoms with an effective dose of UV-containing light from a light source and detecting a suppression of the clinical symptoms of MS. In particular, the detected suppression of the clinical symptoms is disassociated from the vitamin D production within the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Hector F. DeLuca, Yanping Wang, Steven Marling
  • Patent number: 10779908
    Abstract: In an apparatus for directing a laser beam to a dental treatment area, where the apparatus includes a hand piece having an optical subsystem including a turning mirror for directing a laser beam to a treatment area via an orifice of the hand piece, a fluid supply subsystem creates a fluid flow within the hand piece proximate the turning mirror so as to mitigate contamination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Convergent Dental, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles H. Dresser, Nathan P. Monty
  • Patent number: 10779886
    Abstract: Devices and methods can be used to deliver thermal therapy to treat tissue. For example, this document provides devices and methods for treating varices, varicosity, other bleeding vessels, polyps, and cancer using microwave-delivered thermal therapy in a minimally invasive fashion. In some embodiment's provided herein, a multidirectional thermal therapy that does not injure surface tissues but causes endothelial injury and coagulation is described. In some implementations, varices are suctioned into a cup that is configured to deliver thermal therapy to the varices, resulting in coagulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: Navtej S. Buttar, Louis-Michel Wong Kee Song, Samuel J. Asirvatham
  • Patent number: 10765883
    Abstract: A system includes a laser source coupled to an optical waveguide which has a laser output portion, and a vaginal housing transparent to laser energy which is emitted by the laser source and which exits the laser output portion, wherein the optical waveguide is movable along a path inside the vaginal housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Inventor: Ziv Karni
  • Patent number: 10768107
    Abstract: Blood separation systems and methods are provided for controlling the interface between separated blood components. The system includes a centrifuge assembly having a light-transmissive portion, a light reflector, and a fluid processing region therebetween. An optical sensor system emits a scanning light beam along a path toward the light-transmissive portion, which transmits at least a portion of the scanning light beam to the fluid processing region and the light reflector. The light reflector reflects at least a portion of the scanning light beam toward the optical sensor system along a path substantially coaxial to the path of the scanning light beam from the optical sensor system toward the light-transmissive portion of the centrifuge assembly. The scanning light beam may be a white light beam or narrow spectrum beam. The reflected beam may be directed through the optical sensor system via optical fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Fenwal, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter David Koudelka, Ryan Eliot Eckman, Eric Karl Lindmark, Lubomir Koudelka, James Joseph Ulmes, Steven R. Katz, William H. Cork
  • Patent number: 10758308
    Abstract: A system can include a microprocessor executable controller configured, based on one or more of total fiber active area of a laser catheter, imaging information regarding the target and/or non-target endovascular structure(s), target endovascular structure characterization information, current location and/or orientation of a distal tip of the laser catheter, and area of contact of the distal tip with the target and/or non-target endovascular structure to select at least one of a fiber active area for each optical channel, a number of optical channels, a configuration of fibers in an optical channel, an optical channel to be irradiated, and an ordering of optical channel irradiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: THE SPECTRANETICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenneth P. Grace
  • Patent number: 10743991
    Abstract: A method for improving leaflet prolapse and/or valve regurgitation associated with a heart valve involves introducing a chordae tendineae capturing device into a ventricle of a heart, the chordae tendineae capturing device comprising a central hub component and a plurality of spokes, extending the plurality of spokes outward from the central hub component, rotating the chordae tendineae capturing device in a first direction to bring at least one of the plurality of spokes into physical contact with one or more cords of chordae tendineae disposed in the ventricle, further rotating the chordae tendineae capturing device in the first direction to bring the one or more cords inward towards the central hub component, and closing the plurality of spokes at least partially over the one or more cords to secure the one or more cords.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
    Inventor: Oliver Brown
  • Patent number: 10744033
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for the treatment of glaucoma are provided. The instrument uses either cauterization, a laser to ablate, sonic or ultrasonic energy to emulsify, or mechanical cutting of a portion of the trabecular meshwork. The instrument may also be provided with irrigation, aspiration, and a footplate. The footplate is used to enter Schlemm's canal, serves as a guide, and also protects Schlemm's canal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: George Baerveldt, Roy Chuck
  • Patent number: 10737110
    Abstract: A light therapy apparatus is described that includes a housing, a laser mounted in the interior of the housing, and a control circuit that controls the laser according to a control program. The housing includes an opening extending through a first surface of the housing from an interior of the housing. The first surface is perpendicular to the bottom of the housing. The laser is mounted in the interior of the housing so as to output laser light in a direction perpendicular to the bottom of the housing, and the housing and the laser are arranged so that eyes of a user are shielded from direct contact with the laser light output by the laser by the laser light output from the laser being indirectly output through the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Inventor: John Stephan
  • Patent number: 10737108
    Abstract: An injection needle has an opening at a distal end thereof the injection needle and defines a hole. An optical fiber is configured to output a light from a light source and inserted in the hole. The optical fiber has a distal end positioned on an inner side of the opening. A protector is configured to transmit the light and is positioned further towards an opening side of the injection needle than the distal end. The protector is configured to prevent adherence of tissue to the optical fiber. The light emitted from the optical fiber is configured to irradiated onto a treatment target in a state in which the injection needle is inserted into skin, the distal end is positioned on an inner side of the opening, and the protector is positioned further towards the opening side of the injection needle than the distal end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: JMEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nishimura, Samuel Bohman
  • Patent number: 10736690
    Abstract: Methods for treating a patient using therapeutic renal neuromodulation and associated devices, systems, and methods are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, is directed to a catheter apparatus including an elongated shaft defined by a braid embedded within a polymer. The braid can include one or more thermocouple assemblies intertwined with a braiding element. The thermocouple assemblies can be coupled to one or more electrodes at a distal portion of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC ARDIAN LUXEMBOURG S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Brian Kelly, Micheal Moriarty
  • Patent number: 10736182
    Abstract: Substrate temperature control apparatus and electronic device manufacturing systems provide pixelated light-based heating to a substrate in a process chamber. A substrate holder in the process chamber may include a baseplate. The baseplate has a top surface that may have a plurality of cavities and a plurality of grooves connected to the cavities. Optical fibers may be received in the grooves such that each cavity has a respective optical fiber terminating therein to transfer light thereto. Some or all of the cavities may have an epoxy optical diffuser disposed therein to diffuse light provided by the optical fiber. A ceramic plate upon which a substrate may be placed may be bonded to the baseplate. A thermal spreader plate may optionally be provided between the baseplate and the ceramic plate. Methods of controlling temperature across a substrate holder in an electronic device manufacturing system are also provided, as are other aspects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Busche, Wendell Boyd, Jr., Todd J. Egan, Gregory L. Kirk, Vijay D. Parkhe, Michael R. Rice, Leon Volfovski
  • Patent number: 10716625
    Abstract: A light-diverting catheter tip is provided according to embodiments disclosed herein. The light-diverting catheter tip may be coupled with the distal tip of a laser catheter and divert at least a portion of the light exiting the distal tip of the laser catheter such that the spot size of the laser beam on an object after exiting the catheter tip is larger than the spot size of the light entering the catheter without the catheter tip. The catheter tip may be removably coupled with the catheter or constructed as part of the catheter. In other embodiment, the catheter tip may conduct fluid and/or divert fluid at the tip of the laser catheter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: THE SPECTRANETICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert Splinter, Robert L. Carver, Ted A. Giem, Kevin D. Taylor, Clint Fix
  • Patent number: 10709608
    Abstract: A process for preventing or treating myopia includes applying a pulsed energy, such as a pulsed light beam, to tissue of an eye having myopia or a risk of having myopia. The source of pulsed energy has energy parameters including wavelength or frequency, duty cycle and pulse train duration, which are selected so as to raise an eye tissue temperature to achieve therapeutic or prophylactic effect, such as stimulating heat shock protein activation in the eye tissue. The average temperature rise of the eye tissue over several minutes is maintained at or below a predetermined level so as not to permanently damage the eye tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Ojai Retinal Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey K. Luttrull, David B. Chang, Benjamin W. L. Margolis
  • Patent number: 10667933
    Abstract: A delivery system is equipped with a self expanding stent for implantation into a blood vessel, in particular in the region of the aortic arch. The stent has a hollow cylindrical body which is radially compressed for implantation. A pull-back sheath which surrounds the stent and which radially compresses it is also provided for positioning and releasing the stent in the blood vessel. The pull-back sheath has a highly flexible front section which surrounds the stent and which maintains said stent in its compressed state, and has further a more rigid rear section which is connected to the front section and which is designed to transmit torsional and traction forces to the front section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: JOTEC GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Kaufmann, Hardy Mueller, Rainer Lesmeister, Michael Braun, John Geis
  • Patent number: 10667862
    Abstract: According to one aspect, a medical system may include a laser source for providing laser energy. The medical system may also include a fluid source containing a fluid for absorbing the laser energy to generate heat. The medical system may further include a medical device operatively coupled to the laser source and the fluid source. The medical device may include a shaft having a distal end, and a cap at the distal end of the shaft. The cap may include a lens and a reflector for deflecting the laser energy toward the lens. The lens may be configured to emit the laser energy from the cap toward a target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Montague, Martyn G. Folan, Thomas M. Keating, Paul E. Tierney, Martin Hynes
  • Patent number: 10602960
    Abstract: A device and method are described for navigating and positioning a central venous catheter into the venous system using two different modes of location. For example, a peripherally inserted central catheter (“PICC”) may be navigated and positioned within the superior vena cava. A light emitting element is used in the first mode to navigate the PICC to the superior vena cava. To improve visibility during navigation, the light emitted from the light emitting element may include a narrow range of wavelengths that generally matches the wavelengths of light that are transmissable through a light absorbing material defining the wall of the catheter. A conductive medium is used in the second mode to monitor an ECG signal in order to position the PICC in the superior vena cava. One advantage of this procedure is that X-ray visualization can be eliminated to reduce the danger associated with X-rays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: COOK MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Preston R Pameijer, Michael R Kurrus, Anthony D Hammack, Joseph D Schilling, Andreas F Shick
  • Patent number: 10582967
    Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure pertain to a device with an elongated body having a distal end. The distal end may comprise a port that permits discharge of a laser energy towards a tissue from an optical fiber located in the distal end. An exterior surface of the distal end may include a cauterization portion that permits discharge of a cauterization energy towards the tissue. In some aspects, the device includes an insulative portion that attaches the distal end to the elongated body and limits energy transfer therebetween. Related systems and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Hui Wang, Wen-Jui Ray Chia, Rongwei Jason Xuan, Jian James Zhang, Aditi Ray, Honggang Yu
  • Patent number: 10575903
    Abstract: A treatment device is disclosed for treatment of a living body lumen. The treatment device can include an optical fiber having an emitting part that emits laser light from a side circumferential surface. Two or more grooves are provided in the emitting part at places different in a longitudinal direction of the emitting part. The two or more grooves have two or more kinds of shapes and intensities of the laser light emitted from the grooves adjacent to each other are different. A maximum region of intensity of the laser light emitted from the emitting part is located on one end side relative to a center position in the longitudinal direction of the emitting part. The intensity of the laser light emitted from the emitting part on the other end side of the emitting part relative to a position of the maximum region decreases toward the other end side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Shimizu, Yuuki Itou, Yuuichi Tada
  • Patent number: 10575833
    Abstract: A biopsy apparatus includes a housing, a biopsy cannula mounted to the housing, and a cannula rotation mechanism mounted to the housing. The cannula rotation mechanism has a thumbwheel, a first gear, and a second gear. The thumbwheel is configured to rotate about a rotational axis, with the rotational axis being perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the biopsy cannula. The first gear is mounted in fixed attachment to the thumbwheel. The second gear is mounted in fixed attachment to the biopsy cannula. The first gear is in mesh with the second gear such that the first gear is directly drivably engaged with the second gear to rotate the biopsy cannula about the longitudinal axis when the thumbwheel is rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: C. R. Bard, Inc.
    Inventors: Rafal Chudzik, Jason G. Seiger, Angela K. Jensen, Glen V. Lazok
  • Patent number: 10561462
    Abstract: A system and method for ablation include ablating (508) a target volume using an ablation probe and collecting (510) temperature information around the target volume. A shape of an ablation volume is determined (512) based upon the temperature information. The shape is displayed (520) on a display relative to an image of the target volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Sandeep Dalal, Jochen Kruecker
  • Patent number: 10559077
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is disclosed, which uses OCT to process a plurality of cross-sectional images obtained by moving an imaging core inside a catheter in an axial direction while rotating the imaging core. Cross-sectional image data is acquired in association with position information in the axial direction when each of the cross-sectional images. A first cross-sectional image in which a disappearance section enabling determination having a disappeared portion of an external elastic membrane included in a vascular tomographic image starts, and a second cross-sectional image in which the disappearance section ends are extracted from the plurality of cross-sectional images. The position information in the axial direction is acquired for the first cross-sectional image and the second cross-sectional image, and an ablation range influenced by ablation at a position associated with the disappearance section is calculated based on a difference in the acquired position information in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuuji Onimura, Akiyuki Takami, Atsushi Sakaoka
  • Patent number: 10549114
    Abstract: A therapeutic illumination assembly includes a catheter and a point source treatment fiber. The catheter comprises a catheter wall encircling a luminal fluid pathway. The point source treatment fiber is positioned within the luminal fluid pathway of the catheter. Further, the point source treatment fiber comprises a plurality of light emitting point sources intermittently positioned along a treatment length of the point source treatment fiber such that the plurality of light emitting point sources irradiate the catheter when the plurality of light emitting point sources emit light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Michael Lucien Genier, William Spencer Klubben, III
  • Patent number: 10543043
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method for providing laser energy through a catheter towards a second end portion of the catheter. Based on a characteristic of the laser energy multiple types of ablation therapy may be implemented. A first ablation therapy is directed at the target site when the laser energy at the second end portion of the laser energy delivery system has a first characteristic. A second ablation therapy is directed at the target site when the laser energy at the second end portion of the laser energy delivery system has a second characteristic. The first ablation therapy may be an optical ablation therapy wherein the laser energy is directed at the target site as optical energy and the second ablation therapy may be a pressure wave ablation therapy wherein pressure waves are directed at the target site as pressure wave energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: THE SPECTRANETICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard Fiser, Kenneth P Grace
  • Patent number: 10525279
    Abstract: A method for treating a condition in a tissue, includes the steps: (1) providing a PS within the tissue; (2) irradiating the tissue containing the PS with a first light of a first wavelength; and (3) irradiating the tissue containing the PS with a second light of a second wavelength so as to treat the condition in the tissue, wherein: (a) the PS absorbs light at the first wavelength and the second wavelength; and (b) the second light is more strongly absorbed by the tissue than the first light or vice versa, so as to achieve a predetermined absorbed photon density gradient. An apparatus for conducting the method includes first and second light sources, a power supply, a focusing device, and a controller which adjusts light emission such that I(d)=I(?1 at d=0)×exp (?eff (?1)×d)+I(?2 at d=0)×exp (?eff(?2)?d).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Theralase Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Arkady Mandel, Roger Dumoulin-White, Wayne Embree
  • Patent number: 10509171
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optical fiber probe for an optical treatment including a core, to which incident light is guided, a cladding disposed to surround the core, a side surface divergence part connected to the core and configured to diverge the incident light guided to the core to a side surface of a cylindrical column, a diffusion layer disposed to surround the side surface divergence part, a distal end divergence part connected to the side surface divergence part, having a cylindrical shape, and configured to diverge the incident light guided to the side surface divergence part to the outside, and a coating layer disposed to surround the cladding and the diffusion layer and configured to seal the cladding and the diffusion layer, wherein the refractive index of the cladding is lower than the refractive index of the core, the refractive index of the diffusion layer is higher than the refractive index of the core, and the refractive index of the coating layer is higher than the refractive indices of the cladding an
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: TAIHAN FIBEROPTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chi Hwan Ouh, Chang Hyun Jung, Ga Ye Park, Hyung Su Cho, Dae Young Kim, Jae Wan Han