Patents Assigned to Human Factors Industrial Design, Inc.
  • Endoscopic intracorporeal suture tying aid
    Patent number: 5810852
    Abstract: An endoscopic intracorporeal suture tying aid allows a suture to be looped around itself multiple times and cinched, enabling a throw of a surgeon's knot to be easily made. The tying aid includes a needle holder connected to a proximal end of a shaft for releasably holding a needle; a hook that slides longitudinally with respect to the beaks; and the shaft being axially rotatable with respect to the hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignees: Greenberg Surgical Technologies LLC, Human Factors Industrial Design, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex M. Greenberg, Douglas M. Spranger, Paul J. Mulhauser, Mark C. Newby
  • Drill guide with removable ferrules
    Patent number: 5743916
    Abstract: A drill guide is disclosed including a sleeve mounted on a handle. The sleeve of the drill guide has a bore which is dimensioned for slidably receiving a bit sizing ferrule therein. The bit sizing ferrule has a sized bore for demountably inserting a drill bit or other instrument therein having a particular width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Human Factors Industrial Design, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex M. Greenberg, Douglas M. Spranger, Paul J. Mulhauser
  • Endoscopic intracorporeal suture tying aid
    Patent number: 5709694
    Abstract: An endoscopic intracorporeal suture tying aid allows a suture to be looped around itself multiple times and cinched, enabling a throw of a surgeon's knot to be easily made. The tying aid includes a needle holder connected to a proximal end of a shaft for releasably holding a needle; a hook that slides longitudinally with respect to the beaks; and the shaft being axially rotatable with respect to the hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Assignees: Human Factors Industrial Design, Inc., Greenberg Surgical Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alex M. Greenberg, Douglas M. Spranger, Paul J. Mulhauser, Mark C. Newby