Patents Assigned to DePuy
  • Implant having locking holes with collection cavity for shavings
    Patent number: 10925651
    Abstract: A bone plate includes locking holes that reconfigured to threadedly mate with locking screws to fix the bone plate to an underlying bone. Some of the locking holes are standard-type locking holes. Alternatively or additionally, some of the locking holes are variable-angle locking holes. The bone plate defines a collection cavity in the locking holes that are configured to collect shavings that can be produced if the bone screw is cross threaded in the locking hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse B. Rush, Christopher Keegan, Michael McGurk, Simon M. Bosshard
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUB-COLUMN PARALLEL DIGITIZERS FOR HYBRID STACKED IMAGE SENSOR USING VERTICAL INTERCONNECTS
    Publication number: 20210045624
    Abstract: Embodiments of a hybrid imaging sensor and methods for pixel sub-column data read from the within a pixel array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Laurent Blanquart
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING A CATHETER
    Publication number: 20210046283
    Abstract: A method of delivering a catheter to a location of interest in the vasculature, the method including positioning a self-expanding sheath within a lumen of the catheter; advancing the catheter and the self-expanding sheath in tandem over a guidewire; and distally moving a distal end of the self-expanding sheath out from the lumen of the catheter thereby causing the self-expanding sheath to move from a collapsed state within the catheter to an expanded state outside the catheter, wherein when the self-expanding sheath is in the expanded state both the self-expanding sheath and the catheter are distally advanceable in tandem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Juan LORENZO, Kirk JOHNSON, Dillon KARG
  • Glenoid component for shoulder arthroplasty
    Patent number: 10918442
    Abstract: A glenoid component includes a laterally facing bearing surface configured to engage a bearing surface of an element associated with a humerus, and a stem portion extending medially away from the bearing surface. The stem portion is configured such that when implanted in a scapula the stem portion includes three cross-sections parallel to a medial lateral plane. The middle cross-section has a length in the medial-lateral direction which is shorter than the lengths of the other two cross-sections in the medial lateral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph P. Iannotti, Kimerly A. Powell, Gerald R. Williams
  • Steerable locking catheter
    Patent number: 10918366
    Abstract: The steerable catheter invention facilitates the tracking and selection of branch vessels, as well as provide the means for stiffening the catheter body across the tortuosity to anchor the catheter and minimize the potential for the catheter backing out of position while delivering interventional devices to the distal anatomy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Juan Lorenzo
  • Helical balloon assist device and method for using the same
    Patent number: 10918390
    Abstract: The helical balloon assist device includes a tubular balloon formed at least partially into an independent helical shape in an uninflated state and an inflation tube in sealed communication with the balloon and extending from the helical balloon assist device in a proximal direction. The helical balloon assist device may include an inner core member formed at least partially into an independent helical shape and supporting the helical shape of the tubular balloon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Juan Lorenzo, Kirk Johnson
  • THROMBECTOMY WITH VENTURI SUCTION
    Publication number: 20210038779
    Abstract: A venturi pump can provide suction through a catheter during an intravascular treatment. The venturi pump can have a supply port, exhaust port, and vacuum inlet such that a fluidic flow from the supply port to the exhaust port produces suction at the vacuum inlet due to the Venturi effect. A device or assembly can include the venturi pump, a flow regulator, and a sealable entrance sized to receive the catheter. The flow regulator can be manipulated to adjust suction through the vacuum inlet of the venturi pump. The device or assembly can have an exit and a passageway between the entrance and the exit to allow a pull wire, Intermediate Catheter, or other clot retrieval system elongated member to pass therethrough and be manipulated during the intravascular treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Juan LORENZO
  • EXPANSION RING FOR A BRAIDED STENT
    Publication number: 20210038412
    Abstract: A method, including assembling a plurality of expansion rings to a lumen of the braided stent body, the lumen of the braided stent body being formed by a plurality of braided members, each expansion ring comprising a frame defined by a plurality of interconnected support assemblies comprising a plurality of legs joined at a first intersection and connected to one of the other interconnected support assemblies at a second intersection opposite the first intersection, the legs being twistable about the first and second intersections; and a claw portion disposed opposite the first and second intersections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Juan LORENZO, Robert SLAZAS, Ramin TEHRANI, Pedro PEDROSO
  • Super resolution and color motion artifact correction in a pulsed color imaging system
    Patent number: 10917562
    Abstract: The disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for producing an image in light deficient environments and associated structures, methods and features. The features of the systems and methods described herein may include providing improved resolution and color reproduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: John Richardson, Laurent Blanquart
  • Tibial plateau leveling osteotomy plate
    Patent number: 10905479
    Abstract: An improved tibial plateau leveling osteotomy plate is disclosed. The plate is contoured in its proximal head portion to more closely resemble the structure of the tibial bone segment that is cut and rotated during the procedure. The plate also preferably has screw holes in the proximal head portion that are machined through the pre-contoured proximal head portion and are designed to angle the screw in a targeted screw path with respect to the osteotomy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Horan, Christopher H. Scholl, Daneen K. Touhalisky
  • Spiral delivery system for embolic braid
    Patent number: 10905431
    Abstract: A device for treating an aneurysm with a braided implant can include a delivery tube having a spiral groove on an outer surface of the delivery tube and a braided implant having a spiral segment. The spiral segment can engage the spiral groove as the braided implant is delivered to an aneurysm treatment site. At the treatment site, the braided implant can be implanted, and the delivery tube can be rotated to disengage the spiral segment from the spiral groove. Once released, the spiral segment can reshape to occlude the neck of the aneurysm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Lacey Gorochow
  • System and method for delivering a catheter
    Patent number: 10905853
    Abstract: Systems and methods for delivering a catheter to a location of interest in the vasculature, the method including selectively positioning a guidewire at the location, positioning a self-expanding sheath within a lumen of the catheter, advancing the catheter and the self-expanding sheath in tandem over the guidewire, and distally moving a distal end of the self-expanding sheath out from an inner lumen of the catheter thereby causing the self-expanding sheath to move from a collapsed state within the catheter to an expanded state outside the catheter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Juan Lorenzo, Kirk Johnson, Dillon Karg
  • Card edge connector for an imaging sensor
    Patent number: 10911649
    Abstract: The disclosure extends to devices, systems and methods for connecting one or more sensors to one or more printed circuit boards (PCB) in the distal end or tip of a scope. The disclosure also extends to a connector assembly for an image sensor for protecting the sensor and conveying information from the sensor to the PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremiah D. Henley, Laurent Blanquart, Brian Dean
  • Aneurysm device and delivery system
    Patent number: 10905430
    Abstract: A braid for treating an aneurysm can include a first radially expandable segment operable to move from a collapsed state within a microcatheter to a deployed state distal of the microcatheter. The first radially expandable segment can be capable of radially expanding to form an outer occlusive sack in the aneurysm in the deployed state. The braid can also include a second radially expandable segment operable to move from the collapsed state within the microcatheter to the deployed state distal of the microcatheter, wherein the second radially expandable segment is capable of radially expanding inside the outer occlusive sack to form an inner occlusive sack in the outer occlusive sack in the deployed state. An expansion mechanism can be included and be disposed at a proximal end of the first and second radially expandable segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Juan Lorenzo, Lacey Gorochow, Ariel Sotodelvalle
  • Bone plate fastening system
    Patent number: 10905443
    Abstract: A screw guide includes a first end, a second end spaced from the first end, a guide body that extends from the first end to the second end, and a guide hole that extends through the guide body. The guide body includes a first guide surface and a second guide surface, the first guide surface defines a first opening of the guide hole, and the second guide surface is spaced from the first guide surface in a first guide direction. The second guide surface defines a second opening of the guide hole, the guide body includes a leg portion that extends from the second guide surface in the first guide direction such that the leg portion is spaced from the second opening in a second guide direction that is perpendicular to the first guide direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Weston Whitaker, Joseph Capozzoli, Raymond Schmitt, Peter Fatone, Michael Brace, Eric Lui, Benjamin Barrall, Kenny Koay, Steven Opsitnick
  • Patella bone plate and methods of fixation
    Patent number: 10905478
    Abstract: A patella fracture fixation system includes a peripheral rim bone plate that is configured to be implanted along a parapatellar lateral approach. The bone plate can configured to minimize disruption of blood supply to the patella. The bone plate can be augmented with a Krackow suture pattern to assist in stabilization of a comminuted inferior pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Helfet, Dean G. Lorich
  • Variable angle bone plate
    Patent number: 10905476
    Abstract: A bone plate having at least one variable angle locking hole is described. The variable angle locking hole allows a bone anchor having a threaded head to be driven into underlying bone while oriented at an angle with respect to a central hole axis of the hole that is within a range of angles at which the head is configured to threadedly mate with the at least one thread of the bone plate. Accordingly, the bone anchor can be driven into the underlying bone until the threaded head threadedly purchases with the bone plate inside the variable angle locking hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Erasmo A. Lopez, Kristina Snyder
  • SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR PROVIDING ILLUMINATION IN AN ENDOSCOPIC IMAGING ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20210029279
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an endoscopic light source that includes a first emitter. The first emitter may emit light of a first wavelength at a dichroic mirror which reflects the light of the first wavelength to a plurality of optical fibers. The endoscopic light source further comprises a second emitter. The second emitter may emit light of a second wavelength at a second dichroic mirror which reflects the light of the second wavelength to the plurality of optical fibers. In one embodiment, the first dichroic mirror may be transparent to the light of the second wavelength, allowing the light of the second wavelength to pass through the first dichroic mirror.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua D. Talbert, Jeremiah D. Henley, Donald M. Wichern
  • EMBOLIC COIL DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH RETRACTABLE MECHANICAL RELEASE MECHANISM
    Publication number: 20210022748
    Abstract: An embolic implantation system configured to deliver an embolic implant intravascularly to a treatment site includes an elongated delivery tube to which the embolic implant is detachably attached by a flexible loop extending through a retaining ring or opening on the embolic implant and an elongated detachment member or pull wire extending through the delivery tube and flexible loop. The pull wire has a bump near its distal end that inhibits the pull wire from moving further distally when the bump presses distally against the flexible loop and/or retaining ring. The flexible loop and retaining ring thereby serve as a distal obstruction obstructing distal movement of the bump and thereby distal movement of the pull wire into the implant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Juan LORENZO
  • Method and apparatus for minimally invasive insertion of intervertebral implants
    Patent number: 10898342
    Abstract: A dilation introducer for orthopedic surgery is provided for minimally invasive access for insertion of an intervertebral implant. The dilation introducer may be used to provide an access position through Kambin's triangle from a posterolateral approach. A first dilator tube with a first longitudinal axis is provided. An access cannula may be introduced over the first dilator tube. A drill may be inserted through the access cannula and used to perform a foraminoplasty. Surgical instruments may pass through the access cannula to operate on an intervertebral disc and/or insert an intervertebral implant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Rudolf Morgenstern Lopez