Patents Examined by Christian A Sevilla
  • Systems and tools for use with surgical robotic manipulators
    Patent number: 11918233
    Abstract: A tool for use with a surgical robotic manipulator that comprises an energy applicator including a shaft extending along an axis between a proximal end and a distal end. The shaft has an axial-force receiving surface. A tool assembly comprises a support structure to support the energy applicator, an axial connector assembly arranged to engage and releasably lock the energy applicator to the support structure in a locked state, a drive system coupled to the support structure to rotatably drive the shaft of the energy applicator about the axis, a collet assembly cooperating with the axial connector assembly and configured to apply a force to the axial-force receiving surface of the energy applicator in the locked state, and a reference surface. The force includes an axial component directing the energy applicator proximally into continuous contact with the reference surface in the locked state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventor: James E. Flatt
  • Adjustable drill guide and methods of use thereof
    Patent number: 11911047
    Abstract: Drill guide assemblies are adjustable for proper alignment of drill holes in the glenoid with the drill holes in the coracoid during a Latarjet procedure. The drill guide has an aimer arm extending from the body of the drill guide which has a fixed angle with respect to a drill sleeve inserted through the guide. The aimer arm can move up or down relative to the drill sleeve while maintaining the fixed angle relative to the drill sleeve by actuation of a translation member on the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: SMITH & NEPHEW, INC., SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG, SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. LIMITED
    Inventors: Robert Arciero, Oliver Streit, Dirk Wunderle, Alex Seidl
  • Minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion
    Patent number: 11911049
    Abstract: This disclosure presents a MITLIF procedure. The procedure uses a single incision on one side and pedicle screws are placed on that side and through the same incision a facet screw is placed on the opposite side using a series of jigs, and, for example, the hole cutter, drill, guide shaft and screw driver described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Inventor: Jan William Duncan
  • Anchor delivery system
    Patent number: 11903593
    Abstract: An anchor delivery system includes both a straight and curved drill guide along with a flexible drill, a flexible obturator and a flexible anchor inserter. The curved drill guide has a distal tip with approximately a 15° bend from the primary axis of the drill guide. Both the drill and the obturator have a reduced diameter section to improve flexibility during passage through the curved drill guide. Additionally, a surface of the inserter shaft has a laser cut pattern which permits flexing of the inserter around the inner diameter of the curved drill guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SMITH & NEPHEW, INC.
    Inventors: Geoffrey Ian Karasic, Nehal Navinbhai Patel, Marc Joseph Balboa, Matthew Edwin Koski, Benjamin Hall
  • Intramedullary threaded nail for radial cortical fixation
    Patent number: 11903623
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and system for fixation of intra-articular and extra-articular fractures and non-unions of small bones and other small bone fragments, and more particularly to a threaded nail with a robust length and a trailing end with a cutting tip and longitudinal cutting flutes and a stepped diameter with cutting flutes at the transition point, and an optional cannulation along the central longitudinal axis of the nail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ExsoMed Corporation
    Inventors: Lloyd P. Champagne, Jozef Zoldos, Richard Thomas Briganti, Andrew J. Leither
  • Bone displacement system and method
    Patent number: 11903598
    Abstract: A bone displacement system includes a body having a first arm and a second arm. The first arm is connected to a first leg configured to engage a plate configured to be located on a first bone portion. The second arm is connected to a second leg configured to be connected to a second bone portion. A force application fixture is coupled to the first arm and the first leg and configured to apply a force between the first arm and the first leg. The plate has screw holes aligned to allow screws to connect the plate to the first bone portion and the second bone portion after a movement of the first bone portion relative to the second bone portion by the force applied by the force application fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MEDARTIS AG
    Inventors: Matthew Coyne, Gregory Denham
  • Kit including a guiding system and a bone material removal device
    Patent number: 11896242
    Abstract: A kit (4000, 5100) including a guiding system and a cannulated bone material removal device, the bone material removal device (4004, 5200) having a longitudinal shaft (4024, 5202) and comprising on the longitudinal shaft a radially expandable cutting portion (4028, 5208) having a longitudinally-oriented cutting edge (2124), the radial expansion comprising an increase of a cross-sectional diameter of the bone material removal device at the longitudinal position of the expandable cutting portion; and the guiding system including an arcuate element (4008, 5102), a guiding element (4010, 5104) configured to be attached to the arcuate element, and a cannula (4002, 5106), slidably insertable into a portion of the arcuate element; wherein the bone material removal device is axially displaceable within said cannula. The kit can be used in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: T.A.G. Medical Products Corporation Ltd.
    Inventors: Aryeh Mirochinik, Hagay Sitry, Rafi Haziza, Ran Weisman
  • Method of repairing plantar plate tears through graft augmentation
    Patent number: 11896244
    Abstract: A method of repairing plantar plate tears of an individual through augmentation that includes cutting an incision above a damaged area of a plantar plate on an individual, spreading the tissue with a plantar plate joint distractor, inserting a drill insertion member into the plantar drill guide and at a drilling angle over tissue at or near the damaged area of the plantar plate, drilling, with a drill bit and at the drilling angle, into the tissue at or near the damaged area of the plantar plate, attaching a K-wire to a graft, pulling, with the K-wire, the graft across a damaged area of the plantar plate augmenting the damaged area of the plantar plate, and manipulating an interference-type screw through the plantar plate and either or both the K-wire and the graft to engage and compress the graft for fixation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventor: Warren W. Windram
  • Tissue retraction bands and methods of use thereof
    Patent number: 11890001
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a tissue traction device for endoscopic procedures such as tissue dissection. For example, a tissue traction device may include first and second attachment members pivotably attached by first and second swivels to opposite ends of a stretchable traction band comprising a compliant or semi-compliant material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Juan C. Rodriguez Salazar, Jose Garcia-Cordero, Anne Sluti, Caroline Riedel, Talha Riaz
  • Torque-limiting screwdriver devices, systems, and methods
    Patent number: 11890144
    Abstract: Various torque-limiting screwdriver devices, systems, and methods are disclosed. The screwdriver can include a body, a motor that is configured to rotate a screw engaged with the screwdriver, and a processor configured to control operation of the screwdriver. The screwdriver can have torque-limiting functionality, such as by monitoring the amount of torque applied to the screw and reducing or stopping rotation of the screw when certain torque-limiting criteria are met. In some embodiments, the screwdriver can be switched between manual operation by a user, and automated operation by a motor within the screwdriver. In some embodiments, the screwdriver can be attached to a robotic arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Pro-Dex, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin J Sexson, Alexander M. Pfotenhauer
  • Torque-limiting devices, systems, and methods
    Patent number: 11882991
    Abstract: Various torque-limiting surgical driver devices, systems, and methods are disclosed. The surgical driver can include a body, a motor that is configured to rotate a drill bit engaged with the surgical driver, and a processor configured to control operation of the surgical driver. The surgical driver can have torque-limiting functionality, such as by monitoring the amount of torque applied to a drill bit and reducing or stopping rotation of the drill bit when certain torque-limiting criteria are met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Pro-Dex, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander M. Pfotenhauer, Manouchehr Goharlaee
  • Joint fusion implant and methods
    Patent number: 11883078
    Abstract: An implant for fusing a joint between first and second bone portions. The implant includes a screw member, and a washer polyaxially rotatable relative to the screw member. The screw member includes a head, a lag zone, and a threaded engagement zone. The implant includes a fusion zone for joint compression, extending from the washer to the proximal end of the engagement zone. Fenestrations may be present in the fusion zone. The length of the fusion zone ranges from about 10 mm to about 37 mm. Different surface finishes including roughened and non-roughened may be applied selectively to selected portions of the implant. In an embodiment, the joint is a sacro-iliac joint, and upon implantation the implant extends from the exterior of the ilium, across the joint and into the sacral vertebral body. Instrumentation and methods for preparing the joint and implanting the implant are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: IMDS LLC, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventors: Brian Scott Schumacher, Nicholas Slater, William W. Cross, III
  • Bone preparation apparatus and method
    Patent number: 11883056
    Abstract: A system and method for improving installation of a prosthesis. Devices include prosthesis installation tools, prosthesis assembly tools, site preparation systems, and improved power tools used in implant site preparation, the tools including a secondary motion that preferably includes an ultrasonic vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventor: Kambiz Behzadi
  • Syndesmotic reconstruction guide assembly
    Patent number: 11877759
    Abstract: A syndesmotic reconstruction guide assembly is disclosed. The syndesmotic reconstruction guide assembly includes a medial arm, a medial foot, and a lateral arm. The medial foot is rotatably connected to the medial arm with at least one degree of freedom. The lateral arm is slidably connected to the medial arm at an end opposite the medial foot. The lateral arm includes a lateral foot. The medial foot and the lateral foot are adapted to clamp bones of a syndesmotic joint therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC
    Inventors: James Benjamin Jackson, III, Michael Chad Hollis, Daniel Ryan Sayger
  • Bone anchor fixture for a medical prosthesis
    Patent number: 11882409
    Abstract: A screw-shaped anchoring fixture for anchoring a prosthesis in the skull bone. The anchoring fixture comprises a main body configured to be implanted into the bone and a flange configured to function as a stop to prevent the main body from completely penetrating through the bone. The main body comprises a distal tapered apical portion, a first portion, and a second portion. The inner diameter of the second portion is greater than the inner diameter of the first portion. The method for inserting the anchoring fixture includes providing the anchoring fixture, drilling a hole, and inserting the anchoring fixture into the hole until the flange contacts the skull bone, wherein the hole has a diameter that is greater than the inner diameter of the first portion and less than the outer diameter of the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventors: Lars Jinton, Erik Holgersson, Peter Elmberg
  • Sacropelvic fusion implant system for providing a foundation for spinopelvic fixation constructs in adult spinal deformity surgery
    Patent number: 11877931
    Abstract: A method of surgically treating a patient suffering from severe pain and disability of the low back and buttock by stabilizing the patient's spinal column to their pelvis with an implant system including surgical tools and an implant designed to prevent movement between the sacrum and the ilium while being able to attach to a spinal fusion rod which connect to pedicle screws implanted in the bones of the spine of the patient in order to offer lasting relief of the patient's symptoms. The system is designed to address complications in adult spinal deformity by optimizing spinopelvic fixation vis-à-vis the unique biomechanics of the SI joint. The sacropelvic system is a surgical solution which provides an additively manufactured implant at the base of the spine employing an S2AI trajectory while utilizing assisting technologies including surgical navigation and intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: JCBD, LLC
    Inventors: Edward Jeffrey Donner, Christopher Thomas Donner
  • Rotary impactor for orthopedic surgery
    Patent number: 11877780
    Abstract: A rotary impactor for orthopedic surgery includes an output anvil and a hammer that is capable of imparting linear and rotary force on the anvil. The anvil may be moveable on a leadscrew element to alternately generate energy in an energy storage means and to move along the leadscrew element to impact the anvil. A viscoelastic mechanism or a dampening mechanism is used to reduce the reflected force and or torque during operation of the rotary impactor. High frequency linear impacts by the impactor obviate the need for a surgeon to provide an external push force on the impactor in order to perform a successful surgical operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: FIDELIS PARTNERS, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Pedicini, Joshua Pedicini
  • Guide tools for installation of fixation devices
    Patent number: 11871920
    Abstract: Guide tools for installation of fixation devices. At least one example embodiment includes: a delivery tube, the delivery tube defines a slot that runs from the distal end to the proximal end; a guide tube coupled to the delivery tube; and a handle coupled to the proximal end of the delivery tube and coupled to the proximal end of the guide tube. The handle may include a first channel into an interior of the delivery tube through the slot, and a receptacle in operational relationship to the delivery tube and the first channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: West Gen Technologies, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Donald A. Williams, George J. Sikora
  • Adapter device for surgical instruments
    Patent number: 11864806
    Abstract: An adapter device for a surgical instrument includes an adapter member connectable to and separable from the surgical instrument, the adapter member having a first end, a second end, a longitudinal axis extending from the first end to the second end, and a connection structure configured to connect to the surgical instrument, and a mounting member connectable to and separable from the adapter member for mounting an additional instrument to the adapter member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: BIEDERMANN TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Timo Biedermann, Dimosthenis Dandanopoulos
  • Surface treated medical implant devices
    Patent number: 11865014
    Abstract: A surgical implant having a surface treatment which contains primary cavities and secondary cavities. The primary cavities are larger than the secondary cavities and the primary cavities have an average length ranging from 20-500 micrometers. The surface treatment includes recasted material adjacent to a plurality of the primary cavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc
    Inventors: Mark Miccio, Jason Zappacosta