Patents Assigned to Benvenue Medical Inc.
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Patent number: 10758286Abstract: Methods and apparatus for accessing and repairing a vertebral disc include a pad with a central cut-out mounted to the skin of a patient or, alternatively, a pedicle-mounted support. An incision is made and then a corridor is created using an elongated guide and a series of dilating tubes. An access to the disc space is created through the superior articular process and the facet joint using the corridor defined by the dilating tubes. Nucleus material is removed from the disc space and the vertebral endplates are prepared. The disc space may be sized to select a suitable implant, which is advanced through the corridor and into the disc space following discectomy and endplate preparation. Bone graft material may be inserted into the disc space following installation of the implant and then posterior rigid fixation may be achieved using percutaneous pedicle screws, followed by closure of the site.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventors: Joshua M. Ammerman, Laurent B. Schaller, Douglas M. Lorang, Ricardo J. Simmons, Timothy J. McGrath
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Patent number: 10709577Abstract: A graft material injector device and method are disclosed. The injector device includes an elongated injector tube and a side loading aperture for receiving graft material. A graft material loader and a cover for the side loading aperture may optionally be included.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventors: Douglas M. Lorang, Jeffrey L. Emery, Andrew Huffmaster, Jarrod W. Taylor
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Patent number: 10575963Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for distracting tissue and particularly spinal tissue. The device and method may include insertion of at least one elongated member and an augmenting member to form a structure between the tissues to be distraction, such that a dimensional aspect of the structure is augmented upon movement of the augmenting structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventors: Laurent Schaller, Timothy McGrath, Ryan Connolly, David Needleman, Steven Golden, John Ashley, James Lee, Jeffrey Emery, J. Brook Burley
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Patent number: 10426629Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for distracting tissue and particularly spinal tissue. The device and method may include insertion of at least one elongated member and an augmenting member to form a structure between the tissues to be distraction, such that a dimensional aspect of the structure is augmented upon movement of the augmenting structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2018Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventors: Laurent Schaller, Timothy McGrath, Ryan Connolly, David Needleman, Steven Golden, John Ashley, James Lee, Jeffrey Emery, J. Brook Burley
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Patent number: 10314605Abstract: An apparatus for disrupting tissue in the intervertebral disc space that includes a barrier member having a first configuration for insertion into the disc space and a second configuration when deployed within the disc space. The second configuration of the barrier member is adapted to at least partially define a perimeter of a working region within the disc space. The apparatus also includes a tissue disruption tool configured for insertion into the working region.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2015Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Huffmaster, Jeffrey L. Emery, Ricardo J. Simmons, Douglas M. Lorang, Jeffrey A. Doelling, Russell Borg, Laurent B. Schaller, Ebrahim M. Quddus, Sandeep Kunwar, James K. Lee, Timothy J. McGrath
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Patent number: 10285821Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for distracting tissue and particularly spinal tissue. The device and method may include insertion of at least one elongated member and an augmenting member to form a structure between the tissues to be distraction, such that a dimensional aspect of the structure is augmented upon movement of the augmenting structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2016Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventors: Laurent Schaller, Timothy McGrath, Ryan Connolly, David Needleman, Steven Golden, John Ashley, James Lee, Jeffrey Emery, J. Brook Burley
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Patent number: 10231843Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for distracting tissue. The devices and methods may include insertion of first and second elongated members into the space between two tissue layers, with an augmenting elongated member inserted therebetween to form a distraction device between the tissues to be distracted. The distraction device defines a generally annular configuration, with a locking member secured to one of the elongated members at a plurality of locations to maintain the distraction device in the generally annular configuration. The augmenting elongated member may be shorter than the first and second elongated members such that a window is defined between the proximal and distal ends of the augmenting elongated member when the distraction device and the first and second elongated members are in the generally annular configuration. Bone graft material or bone filler may be introduced into the interior of the distraction device through the window.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventors: James Lee, Jeffrey L. Emery, Timothy McGrath, Laurent Schaller, Andrew Huffmaster, Ebrahim Mohammad Quddus
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Patent number: 10022243Abstract: A graft material injector device and method are disclosed. The injector device includes an elongated injector tube and a side loading aperture for receiving graft material. A graft material loader and a cover for the side loading aperture may optionally be included.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2016Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey L. Emery, Andrew Huffmaster, Douglas M. Lorang, Jarrod W. Taylor
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Patent number: 9955961Abstract: Devices are provided for measuring and/or adjusting the distance between two opposing surfaces of a work space, such as two vertebral bodies separated by a disc space. A sizing device may include at least one distraction member, an actuator, and an actuator controller. The actuator controller is movable to move the actuator, with movement of the actuator changing the height dimension of the distraction member. The amount of movement of the actuator controller is generally linearly related to the change of the height dimension of the distraction member throughout the entire range of motion of the actuator controller. The amount of expansion force applied by the distraction member is also generally linearly related to the amount of movement of the actuator controller.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Huffmaster, Patricia Hsin-Yi Ho, Jeffrey L. Emery, Laurent Schaller
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Patent number: 9827031Abstract: A spacing device is provided for adjusting or measuring the spacing between adjacent vertebral bodies. The spacing device has a distal end with at least one distraction member adapted for insertion into an intervertebral disc space and movable between a low profile first configuration and a higher profile second configuration. Also provided is an actuator for moving the distraction member between the first configuration (for delivery of the distal end of the spacing device to a target disc space) and the second configuration (for manipulation or measurement of the space between adjacent vertebral bodies).Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2011Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey L. Emery, Mark Y. Hirotsuka, J. Brook Burley
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Patent number: 9788974Abstract: Spinal tissue distraction devices that include a member which has a pre-deployed configuration for insertion between tissue layers and a deployed configuration in which the member, by change of configuration, forms a support structure for separating and supporting layers of spinal tissue.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2016Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventor: Laurent Schaller
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Patent number: 9642712Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for distracting tissue and particularly spinal tissue. The device and method may include insertion of at least one elongated member and an augmenting member to form a structure between the tissues to be distraction, such that a dimensional aspect of the structure is augmented upon movement of the augmenting structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventors: Laurent Schaller, Timothy McGrath, Ryan Connolly, David Needleman, Steven Golden, John Ashley, James Lee, Jeffrey Emery, J. Brook Burley
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Patent number: 9480574Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for distracting tissue. The devices and methods may include insertion of first and second elongated members into the space between two tissue layers, with an augmenting elongated member inserted therebetween to form a distraction device between the tissues to be distracted. The distraction device defines a generally annular configuration, with a locking member secured to one of the elongated members at a plurality of locations to maintain the distraction device in the generally annular configuration. The augmenting elongated member may be shorter than the first and second elongated members such that a window is defined between the proximal and distal ends of the augmenting elongated member when the distraction device and the first and second elongated members are in the generally annular configuration. Bone graft material or bone filler may be introduced into the interior of the distraction device through the window.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventors: James Lee, Jeffrey L. Emery, Timothy McGrath, Laurent Schaller, Andrew Huffmaster, Ebrahim Mohammad Quddus
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Patent number: 9326866Abstract: Various features of spinal implants and systems and methods for implanting the same with or between tissue layers in the human body.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2013Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventors: Laurent Schaller, Timothy McGrath, Ryan Connolly, David Needleman, Steven Golden, John Ashley, James Lee, Jeffrey Emery, J. Brook Burley, Larry T. Khoo
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Patent number: 9314252Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for creating channels within bone. One method for treating bone generally includes traversing an elongated member through cancellous bone of a vertebral body along a first generally non-linear path and then retracting the elongated member, thereby leaving a generally non-linear channel. The elongated member then is traversed through the cancellous bone along a second generally non-linear path, which second path does not completely coincide with the first path and then retracted along the second generally nonlinear path, thereby leaving a second generally non-linear channel. Optionally, bone filler material is deployed into the channels.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2014Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventors: Laurent Schaller, Jeffrey L. Emery, Timothy J. McGrath, James K. Lee, Ryan J. Connolly
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Patent number: 9259326Abstract: Spinal tissue distraction devices that include a member which has a pre-deployed configuration for insertion between tissue layers and a deployed configuration in which the member, by change of configuration, forms a support structure for separating and supporting layers of spinal tissue.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2014Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventor: Laurent Schaller
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Patent number: 9161773Abstract: Discectomy or disc preparation system that includes a guide member that is changeable from a deployment configuration for insertion into an intervertebral disc space to a deployed configuration upon being deployed into the intervertebral disc. The system also includes at least one tissue manipulator, such as cutting, scraping and extraction elements, that can be moved or tracked longitudinally along the guide member into and through the intervertebral disc space.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2011Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventors: Laurent B. Schaller, Steven S Golden, Jeffrey L. Emery, James K Lee, Mark Y. Hirotsuka, Russell J. Borg
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Patent number: 9107658Abstract: Methods and systems for closing an opening or defect in tissue, closing a lumen or tubular structure, cinching or remodeling a cavity or repairing a valve preferably utilizing a purse string or elastic device. The preferred devices and methods are directed toward catheter-based percutaneous, transvascular techniques used to facilitate placement of the devices within lumens, such as blood vessels, or on or within the heart to perform structural defect repair, such as valvular or ventricular remodeling. In some methods, the catheter is positioned within the right ventricle, wherein the myocardial wall or left ventricle may be accessed through the septal wall to position a device configured to permit reshaping of the ventricle. The device may include a line or a plurality of anchors interconnected by a line. In one arrangement, the line is a coiled member.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2012Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventors: Laurent Schaller, Joseph Trautman
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Patent number: 9066808Abstract: A method and system of interdigitating flowable material with spinal tissue is disclosed which in one embodiment, includes forming a structure that may partially surround a portion of the spinal material and introducing flowable material into the portion of spinal tissue surrounded by the structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2009Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventor: Laurent Schaller
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Patent number: D736919Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2014Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventors: Ryan Connolly, Patricia Ho, Jochen Backs