Patents Assigned to Hermes Innovations, LLC
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Publication number: 20200405953Abstract: A surgical fluid management system includes a console and a cassette for delivering fluids to a surgical site. The console has a pump rotor and a pressure-sensing membrane. The cassette has a cassette housing, a flexible fluid delivery tube in the housing. The flexible fluid delivery tube has a lumen configured to interface with the pump rotor and to deliver a flow of fluid from a fluid source as the rotor is rotated. A pressure-transmitting membrane is located in a wall of the cassette housing and in fluid communication with said fluid delivery lumen. The pressure-transmitting membrane flexes outwardly in response to a positive pressure in the lumen and flexes inwardly in response to a negative pressure in the lumen. The pressure-transmitting membrane detachably adheres to or presses against the pressure-sensing membrane to cause the pressure-sensing membrane to move in response to pressure changes in the flexible fluid delivery tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: Hermes Innovations LLCInventor: Akos Toth
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Publication number: 20200330085Abstract: A medical instrument includes a tubular cutter extending along an axis and having a windowed outer sleeve and a moveable inner cutting sleeve. An ultrasound transducer is operatively coupled to the inner cutting sleeve in order to induce motion in the inner cutting sleeve to enhance cutting or resection of tissue by the inner cutting sleeve as it is reciprocated or otherwise moved past the cutting window. The instrument typically will include a motor drive configured to reciprocate and/or rotate the inner cutting sleeve relative to the windowed outer sleeve, usually at a reciprocation rate between 1 and 10 Hz.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2019Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicant: Hermes Innovations, LLCInventor: Csaba Truckai
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Publication number: 20200222104Abstract: Tissue is treated using a radiofrequency power supply connected to an applicator having a chamber filled with an electrically non-conductive gas surrounded by a thin dielectric wall. A radiofrequency voltage is applied at a level sufficient to ionize the gas into a plasma and to capacitively couple the ionized plasma with the tissue to deliver radiofrequency current to ablate or otherwise treat the tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2019Publication date: July 16, 2020Applicant: Hermes Innovations LLCInventors: Akos Toth, Csaba Truckai
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Publication number: 20200188018Abstract: Medical devices and methods for treating and occluding a female patient's fallopian tubes to provide permanent birth control or sterilization.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: Hermes Innovations, LLCInventors: Csaba TRUCKAI, Benedek ORCZY-TIMKO, John H. SHADDUCK
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Patent number: 10617461Abstract: Systems and methods for endometrial ablation. The systems include a handle and elongated introducer sleeve extending to an expandable working end having a fluid-tight interior chamber. A thin dielectric wall surrounds at least a portion of the interior chamber and has an external surface for contacting endometrial tissue. The thin dielectric wall surrounds a collapsible-expandable frame and receives an electrically non-conductive gas. First and second polarity electrodes are exposed to the interior and exterior of the chamber, respectively. A radiofrequency power source operatively connects to the electrode arrangement to apply a radiofrequency voltage across the first and second electrodes, wherein the voltage is sufficient to initiate ionization of the neutral gas into a conductive plasma within the interior chamber, and to capacitively couple the current in the plasma across the thin dielectric wall to ablate endometrial tissue engaged by the external surface of the dielectric structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2017Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Hermes Innovations LLCInventors: Akos Toth, Dominique J. Filloux, Csaba Truckai
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Patent number: 10548664Abstract: Medical devices and methods for treating and occluding a female patient's fallopian tubes to provide permanent birth control or sterilization.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Hermes Innovations, LLCInventors: Csaba Truckai, Benedek Orczy-Timko, John H. Shadduck
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Publication number: 20200030527Abstract: A surgical fluid management system includes a console and a cassette for delivering fluids to a surgical site. The console has a pump rotor and a pressure-sensing membrane. The cassette has a cassette housing, a flexible fluid delivery tube in the housing. The flexible fluid delivery tube has a lumen configured to interface with the pump rotor and to deliver a flow of fluid from a fluid source as the rotor is rotated. A pressure-transmitting membrane is located in a wall of the cassette housing and in fluid communication with said fluid delivery lumen,. The pressure-transmitting membrane flexes outwardly in response to a positive pressure in the lumen and flexes inwardly in response to a negative pressure in the lumen. The pressure-transmitting membrane detachably adheres to or presses against the pressure-sensing membrane to cause the pressure-sensing membrane to move in response to pressure changes in the flexible fluid delivery tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: Hermes Innovations LLCInventors: Akos Toth, Csaba Truckai
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Patent number: 10517578Abstract: A medical instrument includes a tubular cutter extending along an axis and having a windowed outer sleeve and a moveable inner cutting sleeve. An ultrasound transducer is operatively coupled to the inner cutting sleeve in order to induce motion in the inner cutting sleeve to enhance cutting or resection of tissue by the inner cutting sleeve as it is reciprocated or otherwise moved past the cutting window. The instrument typically will include a motor drive configured to reciprocate and/or rotate the inner cutting sleeve relative to the windowed outer sleeve, usually at a reciprocation rate between 1 and 10 Hz.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Hermes Innovations LLCInventor: Csaba Truckai
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Patent number: 10492856Abstract: A fluid management system receives fluid from a fluid source and delivers the fluid to a medical probe having a first fluid infusion and aspiration circuit and a second fluid infusion and aspiration circuit. The system also transfers fluid from the medical probe to a collection container. A controller operates a first pump and valve assembly to selectively deliver fluid inflow from the fluid source to one of the first fluid infusion and the second fluid infusion and aspiration circuit. The controller further operates a second pump and valve assembly to selectively transfer fluid outflow to the collection container from one of the first fluid infusion and aspiration circuit of the medical probe and the second fluid infusion and aspiration circuit of the medical probe.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: Hermes Innovations LLCInventor: Benedek Orczy-Timko
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Publication number: 20190192218Abstract: A tissue resecting device includes a handle coupled to an elongated sleeve assembly. The elongated sleeve assembly includes a windowed outer sleeve and an inner sleeve adapted to reciprocate and/or rotate relative to the window to resect tissue intruding into the window, where the resected tissue is captured in a channel in the sleeve assembly. One or more motors in the handle both move the inner sleeve relative to the window and operate a pump which causes a fluid to flow through the channel in the sleeve assembly to remove resected tissue therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: Hermes Innovations, LLCInventors: Benedek Orczy-Timko, Csaba Truckai
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Publication number: 20190180658Abstract: Combination devices that are adapted for marketing and promotion and use a sleeve for insulating beverage containers that is transformable into a toy module, building block, and/or geometric shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2017Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: Hermes Innovations, LLCInventor: John H. SHADDUCK
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Patent number: 10213246Abstract: Tissue is treated using a radiofrequency power supply connected to an applicator having a chamber filled with an electrically non-conductive gas surrounded by a thin dielectric wall. A radiofrequency voltage is applied at a level sufficient to ionize the gas into a plasma and to capacitively couple the ionized plasma with the tissue to deliver radiofrequency current to ablate or otherwise treat the tissue.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2014Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: Hermes Innovations LLCInventors: Akos Toth, Csaba Truckai
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Patent number: 9901394Abstract: An electrosurgical device comprises an elongated shaft having an axis with an interior channel extending along the axis to an opening in a distal end of the shaft. The channel is configured to be coupled to a negative pressure source, and an electrode with a conductive, usually hook-shaped, distal portion is coupled to the shaft and moveable between a first position in which a distal tip of the electrode is disposed proximate to a periphery of the opening of and a second position in which the distal electrode tip is exposed and spaced apart from the opening.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2013Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Hermes Innovations LLCInventors: John H. Shadduck, Benedek Orczy-Timko, Aaron Germain, Csaba Truckai
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Publication number: 20170231681Abstract: Systems and methods for endometrial ablation. The systems include a handle and elongated introducer sleeve extending to an expandable working end having a fluid-tight interior chamber. A thin dielectric wall surrounds at least a portion of the interior chamber and has an external surface for contacting endometrial tissue. The thin dielectric wall surrounds a collapsible-expandable frame and receives an electrically non-conductive gas. First and second polarity electrodes are exposed to the interior and exterior of the chamber, respectively. A radiofrequency power source operatively connects to the electrode arrangement to apply a radiofrequency voltage across the first and second electrodes, wherein the voltage is sufficient to initiate ionization of the neutral gas into a conductive plasma within the interior chamber, and to capacitively couple the current in the plasma across the thin dielectric wall to ablate endometrial tissue engaged by the external surface of the dielectric structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2017Publication date: August 17, 2017Applicant: Hermes Innovations LLCInventors: Akos Toth, Dominique J. Filloux, Csaba Truckai
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Publication number: 20170215912Abstract: A medical instrument includes a tubular cutter extending along an axis and having a windowed outer sleeve and a moveable inner cutting sleeve. An ultrasound transducer is operatively coupled to the inner cutting sleeve in order to induce motion in the inner cutting sleeve to enhance cutting or resection of tissue by the inner cutting sleeve as it is reciprocated or otherwise moved past the cutting window. The instrument typically will include a motor drive configured to reciprocate and/or rotate the inner cutting sleeve relative to the windowed outer sleeve, usually at a reciprocation rate between 1 and 10 Hz.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2017Publication date: August 3, 2017Applicant: Hermes Innovations, LLCInventor: Csaba Truckai
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Patent number: 9662163Abstract: Systems and methods for endometrial ablation. The systems include a handle and elongated introducer sleeve extending to an expandable working end having a fluid-tight interior chamber. A thin dielectric wall surrounds at least a portion of the interior chamber and has an external surface for contacting endometrial tissue. The thin dielectric wall surrounds a collapsible-expandable frame and receives an electrically non-conductive gas. First and second polarity electrodes are exposed to the interior and exterior of the chamber, respectively. A radiofrequency power source operatively connects to the electrode arrangement to apply a radiofrequency voltage across the first and second electrodes, wherein the voltage is sufficient to initiate ionization of the neutral gas into a conductive plasma within the interior chamber, and to capacitively couple the current in the plasma across the thin dielectric wall to ablate endometrial tissue engaged by the external surface of the dielectric structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2011Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Hermes Innovations LLCInventors: Akos Toth, Dominique J. Filloux, Csaba Truckai
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Patent number: 9649125Abstract: A medical instrument includes a tubular cutter extending along an axis and having a windowed outer sleeve and a moveable inner cutting sleeve. An ultrasound transducer is operatively coupled to the inner cutting sleeve in order to induce motion in the inner cutting sleeve to enhance cutting or resection of tissue by the inner cutting sleeve as it is reciprocated or otherwise moved past the cutting window. The instrument typically will include a motor drive configured to reciprocate and/or rotate the inner cutting sleeve relative to the windowed outer sleeve, usually at a reciprocation rate between 1 and 10 Hz.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2014Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: Hermes Innovations LLCInventor: Csaba Truckai
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Publication number: 20170036479Abstract: A modular combination toy and desktop writing accessory apparatus comprising a plurality of structural elements each having at least one nodal connector portion to which a complementary connector portion of another structural element can be coupled. The structural elements can be assembled into a barrel-like form that is configured with a passageway for carrying a writing component of the invention. The writing component can be a pen, pencil, marker, crayon, eraser or the like. The modular combination toy and writing instrument has multiple functions in playtime as well as in everyday desk-bound activities.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2016Publication date: February 9, 2017Applicant: Hermes Innovations, LLCInventor: Csaba TRUCKAI
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Patent number: 9510897Abstract: A system for applying radiofrequency energy to tissue comprising a probe, an energy-delivery surface, and an energy source. The energy-delivery surface is elastomeric with an electrically conductive knit component. The energy-delivery surface can be expanded within an interior of a patient's body to engage tissue and energy delivered from the source through the expanded surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Hermes Innovations LLCInventor: Csaba Truckai
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Patent number: 9387412Abstract: A modular combination toy and desktop writing accessory apparatus comprising a plurality of structural elements each having at least one nodal connector portion to which a complementary connector portion of another structural element can be coupled. The structural elements can be assembled into a barrel-like form that is configured with a passageway for carrying a writing component of the invention. The writing component can be a pen, pencil, marker, crayon, eraser or the like. The modular combination toy and writing instrument has multiple functions in playtime as well as in everyday desk-bound activities.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2014Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: Hermes Innovations, LLCInventor: Csaba Truckai