Patents Examined by Dinah Baria
  • Patent number: 12285336
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for use in the transcatheter treatment of mitral valve regurgitation, specifically a coaptation assistance element for implantation across the valve; a system including the coaptation assistance element and anchors for implantation; a system including the coaptation assistance element and delivery catheter; and a method for transcatheter implantation of a coaptation element across a heart valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Polares Medical Inc.
    Inventor: Alexander K. Khairkhahan
  • Patent number: 12285344
    Abstract: An illustrative stent may comprise an elongated tubular member having a first end and a second end and an intermediate region disposed therebetween. The elongated tubular member may include at least one flexible tie affixed to an end thereof. The tie may allow the stent to be attached to a lumen wall with a clip, such as a retention clip, to inhibit migration of the stent within the body lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: John A. Hingston, Michael D. Amos, Terry V. Brown, Timothy L. Rubesch
  • Patent number: 12274811
    Abstract: Dural repair devices that are configured to effectively and reliably repair the damage of a dural tear due to incidental durotomies are provided, along with methods of use. The devices and methods enhance the ability of a surgeon to repair a patent's dura mater, or dura, during surgery of the central nervous system. The dural repair device has a multi-layer structure configured to exert a pressure or tamponade effect to compress a patient's dura to its state prior to the spinal surgery. Thus, the dural repair devices and methods of use may reduce the patient's risk morbidity, further surgery, spinal headaches, or other injuries and discomforts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE
    Inventors: Charles Sansur, Steven C. Ludwig
  • Patent number: 12268589
    Abstract: An esophageal stent configured to span a stricture may include a tubular body configured to shift between a delivery configuration and a deployed configuration, the tubular body having a first end and a second end. In the deployed configuration: the tubular body defines a first flange portion, a second flange portion, and a saddle portion extending from the first flange portion to the second flange portion; the tubular body further defining an overall longitudinal length extending from the first end to the second end; the first flange portion has a first outer radial extent, and the second flange portion has a second outer radial extent; the first outer radial extent and the second outer radial extent are greater than an outer radial extent of the saddle portion; and a longitudinal length of the saddle portion is at least 50% of the overall longitudinal length of the tubular body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventor: Martyn G. Folan
  • Patent number: 12257164
    Abstract: Systems and methods to evaluate a joint implant device are provided. The joint implant device can include a socket that at least partially receives a first joint component. The joint implant device can include a socket housing coupled with the socket. The joint implant device can include a first sensor, a second sensor, and a third sensor each disposed between the socket and the socket housing. The joint implant device can include a socket extension coupled with the socket. The joint implant device can include a socket housing extension coupled with the socket housing. The joint implant device can include a fourth sensor disposed between the socket extension and the socket housing extension. At least three of the first sensor, the second sensor, the third sensor, or the fourth sensor can detect a force between the socket and the first joint component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Statera Medical Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Bourdon, Frédérik Plourde
  • Patent number: 12257138
    Abstract: A device comprising a microstructured surface wherein in one aspect, the microstructured surface is arranged hierarchically with dual-functioning textured features. The surface may achieve adhesive properties by varying the parameters of the microstructure features. Additionally, the surface may achieve cellular and/or tissues in-growth functionality by varying the same parameters. Generally, the dual-functional aspect includes at least one surface feature having a varied periodicity which may be imposed on at least one other surface feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: BVW Holding AG
    Inventors: Lukas Bluecher, Michael Milbocker
  • Patent number: 12245959
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to stents, systems, and methods for anchoring devices within a body lumen by cooperation between the device and the body musculature. A device comprising an elongate tubular member may be deployed within a body lumen, where the body lumen includes a sphincter that regulates flow through the body lumen. The elongate tubular member includes a sleeve formed from a flexible membrane and one or more stents disposed at either or both ends of the sleeve. In some embodiments, the stents may be treatment stents configured to treat a portion of the body lumen. The elongate tubular member may be deployed within the body lumen such that the flexible membrane aligns with and moves in coordination with the sphincter, thereby increasing retention forces acting upon the elongate tubular member when the sphincter is closed to minimize treatment stent migration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Tuck, Martyn G. Folan, Thomas M. Keating, Martin Burke
  • Patent number: 12239542
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to orthopaedic implants and methods for restoring functionality to a joint. The implants described herein may be utilized during orthopaedic procedures and may be incorporated into a shoulder prosthesis for restoring functionality to shoulders having advanced cartilage disease. The disclosed implants may incorporate one or more fasteners formed together with a main body of the respective implant at a breakable connection. The fastener may be deployed during a surgical procedure, which may improve fixation of the implant at the surgical site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: ARTHREX, INC.
    Inventors: Nick Metcalfe, Steven Jim DeLeon, Steven P. Schewe, Timothy J. Thompson, Kevin John Gallen, Scott William Doody, Michael Moreland
  • Patent number: 12232958
    Abstract: A prosthetic valve is provided that includes a tubular valve body and a plurality of prosthetic leaflets disposed within a lumen of the valve body. The valve body includes struts, has an upstream end and a downstream end, and defines a lumen. The valve body is shaped so as to define a circumferential row of four-sided closed cells. Each of the four-sided closed cells is defined by some of the struts, which are shaped so as to collectively define the following four sides: a left upstream side, a right upstream side, a left downstream side, and a right downstream side. Exactly two of the four sides of each of the four-sided closed cells are double-strutted. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: CARDIOVALVE LTD.
    Inventors: Ilia Hariton, Meni Iamberger, Boaz Harari, Aviram Baum
  • Patent number: 12213884
    Abstract: Provided is a functional, low-profile intercranial device (LID). The LID includes a base portion; at least one cavity associated with the base portion and configured to accept at least one functional component; and at least one conduit having a first end in communication with the at least one cavity. The at least one functional component includes a medicinal, electronic, or optic therapeutic. The at least one conduit is configured to accept the medicinal therapeutic and a second end configured to dispense the therapeutic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventor: Chad Gordon
  • Patent number: 12213898
    Abstract: A self-sealing tubular graft is provided for implantation within a patient's body that includes an elongate tubular body including first and second self-sealing cannulation regions and a loop region extending between the first and second cannulation regions. The loop region includes one or more reinforcement members attached to a first length of the loop region and extending at least partially around a circumference of the tubular body. For example, the reinforcement members may include one or more sinusoidal or zigzag members extending along the first length with alternating peaks and valleys extending at least partially around a circumference of the tubular body. Self-sealing patches are also provided that include one or more reinforcement members embedded within base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Solinas Medical Inc.
    Inventors: James Hong, Erik van der Burg, Amy Lee
  • Patent number: 12213878
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a heart valve comprises: a step of injection moulding a first part of the heart valve from a first block-copolymer, wherein the injection moulding is performed at a temperature below an order-disorder transition temperature of the block copolymer, such that a phase structure is present in the molten block-copolymer; a step of injection moulding a second part of the heart valve from a second block-copolymer that is different to the first block-copolymer, by over-moulding over the first part to form an over-moulded structure, wherein the injection moulding is performed at a temperature below order-disorder transition temperatures for the first and second block copolymers, such that a phase structure is present in the molten second block-copolymer and remains present in the first block-copolymer; and a step of cooling the over-moulded structure, without heating it above the order-disorder transition temperatures between the step of injection moulding the second part and the step of cool
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: THE UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, CAMBRIDGE ENTERPRISE LIMITED
    Inventors: Raimondo Ascione, Geoffrey Moggridge, Joanna Stasiak, Marta Serrani, Eugenia Biral
  • Patent number: 12201509
    Abstract: This disclosure describes decellularized, biologically-engineered tubular grafts and methods of making and using such decellularized, biologically-engineered tubular grafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Robert Tranquillo, Zeeshan Syedain, Lee Meier
  • Patent number: 12193943
    Abstract: A patient specific shoulder guide is provided that includes a hub and a plurality of peripheral members. Each of the peripheral members has a peripheral member height dimension between the patient specific contact surface and a side of the peripheral member opposite the patient specific contact surface. At least one of the peripheral members is a low profile peripheral member in which the peripheral height dimension is less than the peripheral height dimension of at least one other of the peripheral members or is less than the hub height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Charles L. Penninger, Shawn M. Gargac, Robert Benjamin Rice, Anne Marie Schlamb, George S. Athwal, Robert D. Graham, Marine Godelu
  • Patent number: 12185979
    Abstract: An implant delivery device for introducing and positioning implants within patients may include a sheath member having a distal end, a proximal end, and a central longitudinal axis, the sheath member defining a lumen along the central longitudinal axis. The implant delivery device may additionally include an implant delivery shaft having a distal end and a proximal end, the implant delivery shaft disposed at least partially within the sheath member and an implant spreader assembly disposed at the distal end of the implant delivery shaft. In some embodiments, the implant delivery device may further include a cap disposed at the distal end of the sheath member, the cap obstructing at least a portion of an opening into the lumen of the sheath member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: ROTATION MEDICAL, INC.
    Inventors: Nathaniel Zenz-Olson, Nathaniel Tran
  • Patent number: 12186179
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a prosthetic capsular bag and method for inserting the same. The prosthetic capsular bag helps to maintain the volume of the natural capsular bag, thereby stabilizing the effective lens position of an IOL so that refractive outcomes may be improved with cataract surgery. The prosthetic capsular bag further provides an integrated refractive surface, providing a means for experimentally determining an effective lens position prior to inserting an IOL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Omega Ophthalmics LLC
    Inventor: Gary N. Wortz
  • Patent number: 12171654
    Abstract: Described are implants for placing in a body, tools for delivering the implants, and systems and methods for using implants and tools for placing in a body and more particularly to nasal implants, tools for delivering nasal implants, and systems and methods for using such implants and tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Michael H. Rosenthal, Brian Domecus, Piyush Arora, Halil I. Karabey, Gilbert Laroya, Michael S. Mirizzi, Scott J. Baron
  • Patent number: 12167962
    Abstract: A prosthetic heart valve includes a stent having a collapsed condition and an expanded condition. The stent includes a plurality of cells, each cell being formed by a plurality of struts, and a plurality of commissure features. The heart valve further includes a valve assembly secured to the stent and including a cuff and a plurality of leaflets, each leaflet being attached to adjacent commissure features and to the stent struts and/or the cuff.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.
    Inventors: Xue Mei Li, Peter N. Braido
  • Patent number: 12161555
    Abstract: Provided is a functional, low-profile intercranial device (LID). The LID includes a base portion; at least one cavity associated with the base portion and configured to accept at least one functional component; and at least one conduit having a first end in communication with the at least one cavity. The at least one functional component includes a medicinal, electronic, or optic therapeutic. The at least one conduit is configured to accept the medicinal therapeutic and a second end configured to dispense the therapeutic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventor: Chad Gordon
  • Patent number: 12150858
    Abstract: Provided is a functional, low-profile intercranial device (LID). The LID includes a base portion; at least one cavity associated with the base portion and configured to accept at least one functional component; and at least one conduit having a first end in communication with the at least one cavity. The at least one functional component includes a medicinal, electronic, or optic therapeutic. The at least one conduit is configured to accept the medicinal therapeutic and a second end configured to dispense the therapeutic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventor: Chad Gordon