Patents Assigned to Synthes
  • Orthopedic fixation with imagery analysis
    Patent number: 10932857
    Abstract: Methods of orthopedic fixation and imagery analysis are provided. Images of first and second bone segments attached to a fixation apparatus are captured. Fixator elements identified in the images can be used to obtain imaging scene parameters. Bone elements identified in the images can be used with the imaging scene parameters to reconstruct a three dimensional representation of positions and/or orientations of the first and second bone segments with respect to the fixation apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Arkadijus Nikonovas
  • Post-operative bone growth stimulant introduction method
    Patent number: 10932918
    Abstract: A method of revising a patient having a fusion cage implanted within a spinal column, involving percutaneously delivering a first end of a tube to the spinal column, fluidly connecting the first end of the tube to the fusion cage, and delivering a bone growth agent into the fusion cage through the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Jacobs, Jeffrey Walker
  • Bone fixation system
    Patent number: 10932836
    Abstract: A modular bone fixation linkage includes a plurality of interconnected links that can angulate with respect to an adjacent one of the links about at least one axis, such as three axes. The links can further include fixation holes that are configured to receive bone anchors that secure the links to an underlying anatomical structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: William N. Woodburn, Jason S. Chan, Mark P. Grady, Robert J. Schoutens
  • Stent with longitudinal variable width struts
    Patent number: 10932927
    Abstract: Stents generally can include multiple longitudinal elements each extending over a majority of the length of the stent and each having alternating flexible and rigid segments. The stents can include nodes positioned between the flexible and rigid segments on the longitudinal elements and interconnecting members extending circumferentially to connect adjacent longitudinal elements at the nodes. The longitudinal elements can have a wave pattern and the interconnecting members can have a branch structure connecting peaks from one longitudinal element to troughs of an adjacent longitudinal element. The resulting stent structure can have lateral and longitudinal flexibility needed to navigate and conform to intracranial arteries with the benefits of recapturability and structural integrity of a closed cell design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Melissa Clinger, Peter Forsythe
  • Dilation system and method of using the same
    Patent number: 10925594
    Abstract: A method of forming an access opening through a psoas muscle to a patient's spine includes laterally inserting a stimulating dilator into the psoas muscle. The stimulating dilator has a stimulation channel formed in an outer surface thereof. An electrical pulse is transmitted into the stimulating dilator to locate a position of a nerve in the patient's psoas muscle. The stimulating dilator is laterally inserted through the psoas muscle and toward the patient's spine in a way that avoids the nerve. A stimulating probe is inserted into the stimulation channel along the outer surface of the stimulating dilator while transmitting an electrical pulse into the stimulating probe to verify the position of the nerve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Fatone, Brandon Randall
  • 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