Patents Assigned to Benvenue Medical Inc.
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Publication number: 20130190880Abstract: 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 tissueType: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2013Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventor: Benvenue Medical, Inc.
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Patent number: 8470043Abstract: 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: December 17, 2009Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: 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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Publication number: 20130144388Abstract: A spacing device is provided for adjusting 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 of the space between adjacent vertebral bodies).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: BENVENUE MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey L. Emery, Mark Y Hirotsuka, J. Brook Burley
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Patent number: 8454617Abstract: 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 21, 2008Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: 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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Publication number: 20130131810Abstract: A bone tamp for creating channels within bone tissue. The bone tamp includes an elongated member that is deformable from a first generally non-linear configuration to a second generally linear configuration for insertion into bone tissue. As the elongated member is deployed into bone tissue, it transitions from the linear configuration into the non-linear configuration within the bone tissue. The elongated member is capable of being deformed back into the generally linear configuration for withdrawal from the bone tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2012Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventor: Benvenue Medical, Inc.
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Publication number: 20130103055Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2012Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: BENVENUE MEDICAL, INC.Inventor: BENVENUE MEDICAL, INC.
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Patent number: 8391996Abstract: Devices and methods utilizing a catheter to remodel soft tissue of a patient and, in a preferred embodiment, to reduce the volume of the left ventricle of a heart. In some embodiments, one or more sutures are passed through a wall of the ventricle. The ends of the one suture and, more preferably, the multiples sutures are drawn together to draw tissue portions towards one another. In some embodiments, a tissue remodeling clip is implanted into a wall of the ventricle. Ends of the clip are resiliently biased to move relative to one another to draw tissue portions towards one another. In some embodiments, a tissue remodeling anchor includes a base and a plurality of legs attached to the base. The legs of the tissue anchor are implanted into a wall of the ventricle and moved toward one another to draw tissue portions toward one another.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2009Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventor: Laurent Schaller
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Patent number: 8366773Abstract: A bone tamp for creating channels within bone tissue. The bone tamp includes an elongated member that is deformable from a first generally non-linear configuration to a second generally linear configuration for insertion into bone tissue. As the elongated member is deployed into bone tissue, it transitions from the linear configuration into the non-linear configuration within the bone tissue. The elongated member is capable of being deformed back into the generally linear configuration for withdrawal from the bone tissue.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2008Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventors: Laurent Schaller, Steven Golden
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Publication number: 20120330314Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2012Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventors: Laurent Schaller, Jeffrey L. Emery, Timothy J. McGrath, James K. Lee, Ryan J. Connolly
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Patent number: 8333777Abstract: 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: April 21, 2006Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventors: Laurent Schaller, Joseph Trautman
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Publication number: 20120059482Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of separating, supporting or both separating and supporting layers of tissue in the human spine. Such methods generally comprise inserting at least one member between layers of tissue in the human spine and changing the configuration of the member to define a support structure between the tissue layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2011Publication date: March 8, 2012Applicant: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventor: Laurent Schaller
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Publication number: 20110313529Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2011Publication date: December 22, 2011Applicant: 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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Publication number: 20110307063Abstract: Spinal tissue distraction devices that include at least one guide member for guiding a distraction device to a location between layers of spinal tissue. The guide member has a proximal end portion and a distal end portion. The distal end portion is adapted for insertion between the tissue layers and defines a shape of a desired support structure. The distraction device is slidably mounted on the guide member for advancing the distraction device distally along the guide member for insertion of the distraction device between the tissue layers. The distraction device substantially conforms to the shape defined by the distal end portion of the guide member to form a support structure that separates, supports or both separates and supports the tissue layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2011Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicant: BENVENUE MEDICAL, INC.Inventor: Laurent Schaller
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Publication number: 20110307064Abstract: Methods of separating and/or supporting layers of tissue in the human spine. Such methods generally comprise inserting at least a distal end portion of a guide member between layers of tissue in the human spine wherein the distal end portion defines a predetermined shape. A distraction device is advanced over at least the distal end portion of the guide member so that the distraction device substantially assumes the predetermined shape of the distal end portion of the guide member to form a support structure between the tissue layers that separates and/or supports the tissue layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2011Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicant: BENVENUE MEDICAL, INC.Inventor: Laurent Schaller
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Patent number: 8057544Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of separating, supporting or both separating and supporting layers of tissue in the human spine. Such methods generally comprise inserting at least one member between layers of tissue in the human spine and changing the configuration of the member to define a support structure between the tissue layers.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2006Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventor: Laurent Schaller
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Patent number: 7967864Abstract: Spinal tissue distraction devices that include at least one guide member for guiding a distraction device to a location between layers of spinal tissue. The guide member has a proximal end portion and a distal end portion. The distal end portion is adapted for insertion between the tissue layers and defines a shape of a desired support structure. The distraction device is slidably mounted on the guide member for advancing the distraction device distally along the guide member for insertion of the distraction device between the tissue layers. The distraction device substantially conforms to the shape defined by the distal end portion of the guide member to form a support structure that separates, supports or both separates and supports the tissue layers.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2010Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventor: Laurent Schaller
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Patent number: 7967865Abstract: Devices for limiting the movement of flowable material introduced into or between tissue layers of the human spine. The devices can include at least one generally elongated member having a pre-deployed configuration for insertion into or between tissue layers of the human spine and a deployed configuration in which the elongated member forms a barrier that limits the movement of flowable material introduced into or between the tissue layers.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2010Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventor: Laurent Schaller
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Patent number: 7963993Abstract: Methods of separating and/or supporting layers of tissue in the human spine. Such methods generally comprise inserting at least a distal end portion of a guide member between layers of tissue in the human spine wherein the distal end portion defines a predetermined shape. A distraction device is advanced over at least the distal end portion of the guide member so that the distraction device substantially assumes the predetermined shape of the distal end portion of the guide member to form a support structure between the tissue layers that separates and/or supports the tissue layers.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2010Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventor: Laurent Schaller
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Patent number: 7955391Abstract: Methods for limiting the movement of flowable material introduced into or between tissue layers of the human spine. The method can include inserting a member between tissue layers of the human spine. The member has a first configuration for insertion of the elongated member between tissue layers. The shape of the member is changed into a second configuration that defines a barrier that limits or directs the movement of flowable material. Flowable material is introduced to a selected location between the tissue layers and the barrier acts to limit or direct the movement of the flowable material.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2010Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Benvenue Medical, Inc.Inventor: Laurent Schaller
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Publication number: 20100241177Abstract: An apparatus for delivering an intravertebral implant into a vertebral body of a vertebra. The apparatus includes a cannula operatively connected to a housing wherein the cannula is adapted for insertion into the vertebral body. The housing includes a drive system for advancing a guide member through the cannula, out of a distal end opening of the cannula and into the vertebral body. Further, the drive system also selectively or simultaneously advances a pushing element that is adapted to push an intravertebral implant along the guide member so that the guide member guides the implant through the cannula, out of the distal end opening of the cannula and into the vertebral body for implantation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2010Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: BENVENUE MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Laurent B. Schaller, David S. Needleman, James K. Lee, Jeffrey L. Emery