Patents Assigned to Synthes
  • Patent number: 12127744
    Abstract: An embolic coil implant having a stretch resistant fiber therethrough and dual-functional engagement feature at its proximal end is provided. The stretch resistant fiber can be effective to limiting separation of windings of the embolic coil. The engagement feature can provide an attachment for securing the embolic coil to an engagement system of a delivery tube and for securing the stretch resistant fiber at the proximal end of the embolic coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Juan Lorenzo, Tyson Montidoro, Daniel Solaun, David Blumenstyk
  • Publication number: 20240350172
    Abstract: An adjustable bone fixation device for moving a bone includes at least two strut units, at least one meter and a system controller. Each strut unit includes a motor to move a strut. The meter measures a signal generated by the motor during the movement of its strut. The signal is useful in determining a torque or a current of the motor. The system controller activates at least two of the motors and uses the determined torque or the determined current to identify if there is a clinical situation of the bone or a system issue and provides an alert accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Synthes GmbH
    Inventors: Albert A. Montello, Scott P. Lavoritano, Oren Cohen, Shahar Harari, Dror Albo
  • Patent number: 12121635
    Abstract: Systems, methods of manufacture, and packaging configurations are provided for an antimicrobial orthopedic implant having an antimicrobial coating on the outer surface of the implant including a vaporizable antimicrobial agent in a surface area concentration on the outer surface sufficient to prevent bacterial growth on the orthopedic implant, and can additionally provide a clinically effective zone of inhibition around the orthopedic implant. In certain embodiments, a container, a reservoir of the vaporizable antimicrobial agent, and the orthopedic implant are configured to remain thermally stable in a temperature range up to 200 C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Armbruster, Charles Florek
  • Patent number: 12121274
    Abstract: A bone fixation clamp includes a first arcuate clamp member conforming to a shape of a bone and extending between a first connection end and a first free end, a second arcuate clamp member conforming to a shape of the bone, a second connection end of the second clamp member being pivotally attached to the first clamp member, the second clamp member extending between the second connection end and a second free end and a driving member received in the first clamp member passing out of the first clamp member to abut an abutment portion of the second member so that, as the driving member is extended further out of the first member, the driving member pivots the second clamp member relative to the first clamp member to draw the first and second free ends toward one another to apply a radially compressive force to the bone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Powell, Robert Limouze, Natasha Weeks, Rene Haag, George J. Haidukewych
  • Patent number: 12121452
    Abstract: Arcuate fixation members with varying configurations and/or features are provided, along with additional components for use therewith in provided intervertebral implants. The arcuate fixation members may be of different lengths, cross sectional geometries, and/or cross sectional areas. Applications of intervertebral implants utilizing arcuate fixation members are particularly suitable when a linear line-of-approach for delivering fixation members is undesirable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Donner, Jared Schoenly, David E. Evans, Andreas Gfeller
  • Patent number: 12121279
    Abstract: A motor-driven orthopedic impacting tool is provided for orthopedic impacting in the hips, knees, shoulders and the like. The tool is capable of holding a broach, chisel, or other end effector, which when gently tapped in a cavity with controlled percussive impacts, can expand the size or volume of an opening of the cavity or facilitate removal of the broach, implant, or other surgical implement from the opening. A stored-energy drive mechanism stores potential energy and then releases it to launch a launched mass or striker to communicate a striking force to an adapter in either a forward or reverse direction. The tool may further include a combination anvil and adapter and an energy adjustment mechanism to adjust the striking force the launched mass delivers to the adapter in accordance with a patient profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Pedicini
  • Publication number: 20240341768
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling movement of a wire configured to deploy an implant is presented herein. The apparatus can include a wire including a bump and a valve including a friction element configured to apply a friction force to the wire. The friction force can vary based on one or more of: a speed at which the wire is pulled through the friction element, a direction in which the wire is pulled through the friction element, and a contact between the bump and the friction element. The wire can be configured to deploy an implant upon a proximal retraction of the wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicants: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc., Neuravi Limited
    Inventors: Anushree DWIVEDI, Thomas GALLERANI, Melissa CLINGER, Chelsea VIJIL
  • Patent number: 12108958
    Abstract: A burr attachment designed for use with a curved burr attachment or other chuck attachments that includes a tube with a wire shaft supported therein and a coil spring surrounding said wire shaft and having each of the coils touch the outer periphery surface of the wire shaft and the inner peripheral surface of said tube to enhance cooling of said outer periphery of said tube from the heat generated by said wire shaft and attenuate vibrations while allowing said burr attachment to be bent without kinking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Eddy H. del Rio, Douglas A. Perry
  • Patent number: 12109127
    Abstract: A method of inserting a fastener into a fusion cage can include attaching a fastener head of a bone fastener to a flexible bone fastener driver. The method can also include inserting the bone fastener into a threaded throughhole of a fusion cage comprising a front wall, a pair of opposing side walls, a back wall, and top and bottom surfaces adapted for gripping opposed vertebral endplates, wherein the front wall comprises the threaded throughhole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Gamache, Michael D. Sorrenti
  • Patent number: 12108966
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for robotic surgical systems including a robotic arm, the systems comprising an end effector attached to the robotic arm and retaining an access guide, and an initial access tool detachably connected to the access guide, wherein the initial access tool comprises a housing, a shaft extending from the housing coaxially through the access guide, and a distal tip attached to the shaft and protruding from a portion of the access guide distal to the end effector, wherein the housing is adapted to prevent rotation with respect to the access guide. In some embodiments, the access guide is adapted to retain an initial access tool and one or more of a burring tool, a drilling tool, or a tapping tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Jörn Richter, Daniela Wehrli, Christopher Cromer, Samuel Jacobs
  • Patent number: 12102369
    Abstract: Various exemplary surgical impacting tool interfaces and methods of using surgical impacting tool interfaces are provided. In general, a surgical impacting tool includes a locking assembly configured to releasably attach to an adapter. In response to engagement with the adapter, the locking assembly is configured to move from an unlocked configuration, in which the adapter is not releasably attached to the surgical impacting tool (nor is any other adapter releasably attached to the surgical impacting tool via the locking assembly), to a locked configuration, in which the adapter is releasably attached to the surgical impacting tool via the locking assembly. The locking assembly is configured to receive the adapter in a longitudinal direction along a longitudinal axis defined by the locking assembly and to automatically lock the adapter to the surgical impacting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Pedicini
  • Patent number: 12102361
    Abstract: A bone plate has an outer surface, a bone-facing surface opposite the outer surface, and an interior surface that defines a hole extending from the outer surface to the bone-facing surface along a central hole axis. The interior surface further defines a ramp that extends from the outer surface toward the bone-facing surface and plate threads that extend from the ramp toward the bone-facing surface and are configured for optional locking engagement with external threads on a first head of a locking bone fixation member. The interior surface further defines a contact profile in a reference plane that extends along the central hole axis. The contact profile is defined at least by the ramp and is spaced from the central hole axis in an offset direction perpendicular to the central hole axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: This Aebi, Mirko Rocci, Joel Oberli
  • Patent number: 12097124
    Abstract: An interbody fusion cage having upper and lower canals for receiving the heads of bone screws that have been pre-installed in opposing vertebral body endplates. The proximal wall of the cage preferably has a vertical slot that communicates with each canal and is adapted to allow access by a screwdriver and tightening of the screws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Slivka, Alexander Grinberg, John C. Voellmicke, John Riley Hawkins
  • Patent number: 12100716
    Abstract: Embodiments of a hybrid imaging sensor that optimizes a pixel array area on a substrate using a stacking scheme for placement of related circuitry with minimal vertical interconnects between stacked substrates and associated features are disclosed. Embodiments of maximized pixel array size/die size (area optimization) are disclosed, and an optimized imaging sensor providing improved image quality, improved functionality, and improved form factors for specific applications common to the industry of digital imaging are also disclosed. Embodiments of the above may include systems, methods and processes for staggering ADC or column circuit bumps in a column or sub-column hybrid image sensor using vertical interconnects are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Laurent Blanquart
  • Patent number: 12089869
    Abstract: Systems and methods for accessing an interior space of a joint such as a hip joint in preparation for arthroscopic surgery are provided. In general, the described techniques utilize a joint access device having a handle and a dilator shaft and/or sheath coupled to a distal end of the handle. The device can be advanced over a guidewire inserted into a joint to a first position and the guidewire can be reversibly locked to the handle. The handle can be associated with an actuator configured to be actuated to cause the dilator shaft and/or sheath to advance distally toward a second position within the joint while simultaneously retracting the guidewire coupled to the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Joe Algeri, Bethany F. Grant
  • Patent number: 12090320
    Abstract: A sensing device for detecting an artificially induced neuromuscular response within a limb of a subject includes a carrier material and a plurality of mechanical sensors. The carrier material is operative to be secured around a portion of the limb, and each of the plurality of mechanical sensors are coupled with the carrier material. Each mechanical sensor is positioned on the carrier material such that it is operative to monitor a mechanical response of a different muscle group of the limb. Each mechanical sensor then generates a respective mechanomyography output signal corresponding to the monitored mechanical response of its adjacent muscle group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Wybo, Aashish Shah, Tarik Yardibi, Emir Osmanagic, Darren Scarfe
  • Patent number: 12089877
    Abstract: An extender system is configured to couple a vertebral bone anchor that has been previously implanted in a vertebra, or is newly implantable in a vertebra, to an adjacent bone, which can be an additional spinal level or an occiput, for example. The extender system includes an extension member having a body and an engagement member coupled to the body. The extension member defines an aperture extending through the engagement member. A screw is configured to attach the extension member to the vertebral bone anchor. The extension member can be fastened to the adjacent bone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Montello, Oleg Levin, William Strausbaugh, Thomas Kueenzi
  • Patent number: 12076003
    Abstract: Various exemplary methods, systems, and devices for surgical suturing are provided. In general, a loading element can be configured to facilitate loading of a plate into a surgical instrument configured to facilitate passage of a suture through tissue. The surgical instrument can be configured to advance the suture through a tissue of a patient, to capture a free end or looped end of the suture after the suture's advancement through the tissue, and to pull the captured suture out of the patient's body with a portion of the suture remaining passed through the tissue within the patient's body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Otrando, Kevin Zylka, Jonathan Bellas, James T. Spivey, Peter Colby
  • Publication number: 20240285902
    Abstract: The disclosed technology can include a catheter braid that can comprise a first region, which can comprise a plurality of wire segments arranged in a first weave pattern, and a second region, which can have a plurality of wire segments arranged in a second weave pattern. The first weave pattern can transition to the second weave pattern at a first transitional point, which can be disposed at an intersection of the first region and the second region. The first transitional point can be where at least one wire of the plurality of wires of the first region can be removed from the second region. The catheter braid can comprise a uniform cross section area across a majority of the first region and a majority of the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicants: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc., Neuravi Limited
    Inventors: Pedro PEDROSO, Joshua LIEBOWITZ, Karl KEATING
  • Patent number: D1047636
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Uhri, Stefan Gisler, Rolf Schlienger, Markus Hermann, Matthias Singeisen, David Narducci