Patents Examined by Jacqueline Woznicki
  • Patent number: 11931272
    Abstract: An orthopedic device with a base body made of an electrically insulating material and at least one electric conductor which is arranged on or in the base body. The at least one conductor comprises a core made of an electrically conductive elastomer and an electrically insulating coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: OTTOBOCK SE & CO. KGAA
    Inventor: Mario Koppe
  • Patent number: 11931270
    Abstract: Features for a prosthetic digit actuator. The various systems and methods allow for smaller volume actuators, which in turn allows for smaller digits and/or more space for other features of the digit. The actuator includes a motor that causes rotation of a worm gear along a fixed worm wheel. The worm gear is unibody with the output shaft. The worm gear climbs along the worm wheel to cause rotation of a digit or digit segment. The arrangement of the actuator parts allows for transmitting axial forces in first and second directions corresponding respectively to performing opening and closing rotations of the digits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Touch Bionics Limited
    Inventors: Rodrigo Mercader Rivera, Hugh Gill
  • Patent number: 11925570
    Abstract: An example medical stent for treating a body lumen is disclosed. The example stent includes an expandable scaffold having a first end region, a second end region and an outer surface. The stent further includes a first fixation member coupled to the expandable scaffold and a biodegradable material disposed along the first fixation member at a first tissue engagement region. Further, the biodegradable material is designed to degrade from a first configuration in which the biodegradable material shields the first fixation member from a target tissue site to a second configuration in which the first fixation member is engaged with the target tissue site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Lauren Sfakis Lydecker, Jessica L. Grimsby, Karim Tarabein, Travis Henchie, Nicholas Ryan D'Avanzo, Barry Weitzner
  • Patent number: 11918471
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for testing the functioning of an aortic valve by placing the device on the free end of a cylindrical tubular prosthesis inserted into the aorta, said tubular prosthesis being connected, with its other end, to the aortic wall in the region of the aortic valve. According to the invention, the device consists of a multi-part housing provided with at least one through-flow channel for a control liquid, the housing being provided, on its lower side facing the free end of the tubular prosthesis, with a peripheral sealing device that can be placed around the edge of the tubular prosthesis, and at least one pressure-measuring sensor and at least one optical sensor element for video recording being arranged on the lower side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: SPANDAU VENTURES GMBH
    Inventor: Francisco Javier Carrero Gomez
  • Patent number: 11911537
    Abstract: A length extensible implantable device includes a porous member and a longitudinal constraining member. The longitudinal constraining member can constrain at least a portion, up to the entire length of, the porous member in the longitudinal direction. The length of the longitudinally constrained portion can be expanded by applying force to the porous member. The porous member may be a porous tubular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward H. Cully, Jeffrey B. Duncan
  • Patent number: 11911296
    Abstract: An orthopedic joint for a prosthesis, includes an upper part, a lower part which is mounted on the upper part in a pivotal manner about a pivot axis, and a rotation hydraulic unit, which has a housing with a chamber and a pivot piston that is pivotally mounted in the chamber and divides the chamber into a flexion chamber and an extension chamber, the chambers being hydraulically connected together via at least one channel. The joint also includes a pretensioning device which supports a pivoting movement of the upper part relative to the lower part, wherein the pretensioning device is coupled directly to the pivot piston via a support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: OTTOBOCK SE & CO. KGAA
    Inventor: Herman Boiten
  • Patent number: 11911298
    Abstract: A device is provided to allow adaptation of a prosthetic or robotic foot in the medial-lateral direction, including pronation and supination of the foot using a series of articulations. Articulations are permitted in the disclosed device due to linkage systems positioned at various locations of the prosthetic foot. In particular, the device includes multiple connected linkage systems each including upper and lower portions with an articulating contact surface designed for load carriage and stability. The point of contact between the contact surfaces of each linkage system comprises the position-dependent instantaneous center of rotation of the upper portion with respect to the lower portion. The device also includes a platform coupled between the linkage systems and a base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: University of Washington, The Ohio Willow Wood Company
    Inventors: Murray E. Maitland, Matthew M. Wernke, Evandro M. Ficanha, James M. Colvin
  • Patent number: 11903830
    Abstract: A prosthetic tricuspid remodeling annuloplasty ring having two free ends that are upturned in the inflow direction to help avoid unnecessary leaflet abrasion. The free ends are desirably separated across a gap that is large enough to reduce the risk of passing sutures through the conductive system of the heart, yet not too large that support of the septal leaflet of the tricuspid annulus is degraded. The tricuspid ring may have four sequential segments looking from the inflow side and extending in a clockwise direction from a free end located adjacent the antero septal commissure after implant. The ring may define an inflow bulge in the first segment and/or an inflow bulge in the fourth segment that help the ring conform to the natural bulges created by the adjacent aorta, thereby reducing stress and the potential for ring dehiscence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Alain F. Carpentier
  • Patent number: 11890394
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present invention are directed to a medical device having a textured surface with an arithmetical mean height value (Sa) below 3.0 ?m and a developed interfacial area ratio (Sdr) above 1.0 and a density of peaks (Spd) above 1×106 peaks/mm2; a process of preparing such a medical device using a microstructured template; and a method of treating a mammal with such a medical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Instructure Labs B.V.
    Inventor: Noel Lee Davison
  • Patent number: 11872132
    Abstract: A prosthetic remodeling annuloplasty ring for use in tricuspid or mitral valve repairs to provide support after annuloplasty surgery. The annuloplasty ring includes a relatively rigid core extending around an axis that is discontinuous to define two free ends. A suture-permeable interface surrounding the core includes floppy regions adjacent both free ends of the core. Sutures are used to attach the annuloplasty ring to the annulus, including at least one suture through each of the floppy regions to secure the free ends of the ring and minimize the risk of ring dehiscence, or pull through of the sutures through the annulus tissue. The floppy regions may project from each free end into the gap toward each other, be radially enlarged such as paddle-like extensions, or may comprise outwardly lateral extensions at the free ends of the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION
    Inventors: William C. Brunnett, Alison S. Curtis
  • Patent number: 11872180
    Abstract: A lower limb (1) of an ambulatory exoskeleton comprising at least a pelvis segment (10). a leg segment (20) and a foot segment (30), the leg segment (20) being hinged at the First end (21) of same to the pelvis segment (10) and at the second end (24) of same to the foot segment (30). the leg segment (20) comprising a spring element (25) and means (40. 44) for varying the distance (d) separating the ends (21. 24) of the leg segment (20), the means (40. 44) for varying the distance (d) separating the ends (21. 24) of the leg segment (20) being carried by the pelvis segment (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Franck Geffard, Dominique Ponsort
  • Patent number: 11865061
    Abstract: An orthopedic technical device having a top part and a bottom part, which are connected to each other by at least one joint device so as to be pivotable about a joint axis, and at least one attachment device with which the orthopedic technical device can be fixed to a limb. The orthopedic technical device also has an actuator, which is fixed to attachment points on the top part and the bottom part and influences a pivoting of the top part relative to the bottom part, wherein the orientation of the bottom part can be adjusted relative to the limb which is fixable to the upper part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: OTTO BOCK HEALTHCARE PRODUCTS GMBH
    Inventors: Dirk Seifert, Roland Auberger, Christian Breuer-Ruesch, Alexander Noah Spring, Marco Volkmar
  • Patent number: 11850158
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a surgical implant device comprising a body that includes a porous material forming at least a portion of the body, wherein the porous material is configured to promote bone ingrowth and is porous to a fluid. In addition, one or more fluid channels are formed in the body. The one or more fluid channels are arranged to define a fluidic path that exits into the porous material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.
    Inventors: Vincent Abel Maurice Simoes, Florence Delphine Muriel Maillé, Sergii Poltaretskyi
  • Patent number: 11850143
    Abstract: A tissue repair device and a method for using the same are provided. The tissue repair device includes a body portion and at least one wire. The body portion includes an inner layer and an outer layer. The inner layer is close to a tissue, wherein the inner layer includes a hydrophilic structure, and the outer layer includes a hydrophobic structure. The wire is connected to the body portion to fix the body portion to the tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chih-Chieh Huang, Jeng-Liang Kuo, Hui-Ting Huang, Shiun-Yin Chang, Meng-Hsueh Lin, Cheng-Yi Wu, Lih-Tao Hsu, Pei-I Tsai, Hsin-Hsin Shen, Chih-Yu Chen, Kuo-Yi Yang, Chun-Hsien Ma
  • Patent number: 11844691
    Abstract: An implant includes an expandable frame having a continuous lumen and has (a) an upstream row of upstream cells and (b) at least two downstream rows of downstream cells. An upstream portion of each cell is shaped by ascending and descending struts that form a respective peak that points in an upstream direction. A valve member is disposed within the lumen and facilitates unidirectional flow of blood from an upstream end of the frame to a downstream end of the frame. A covering has (i) a first portion entirely covering an outer surface of a downstream row of downstream cells, and (ii) a second portion partially covering an outer surface of an upstream row of downstream cells. Outer surfaces of the peaks of the upstream row of downstream cells are disposed upstream of an upstream end of the covering at the outer surface. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: CARDIOVALVE LTD.
    Inventor: Tal Hammer
  • Patent number: 11826302
    Abstract: A self-aligning, self-drawing coupler for coupling body assemblies together improves usability of a wearable robotic device. A self-contained removable actuator cassette improves the ease of manufacture and of replacing parts in the field. A tensioning retention system designed for one handed operation makes donning and doffing a wearable robotic device easier. A two-stage attachment system increases the range of sizes a wearable robotic device will fit. A removable, integrated ankle-foot orthotic system makes donning and doffing a wearable robotic device easier. An infinitely adjustable, integrated ankle-foot orthotic system increases the range of sizes a wearable robotic device will fit. A manually-removable hip-wing attachment system makes field changes easier, and protecting such a system from inadvertent disengagement during operation increases safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Ekso Bionics Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan J. Farris, Mike Clausen, Edgar Wilson
  • Patent number: 11806289
    Abstract: An exoskeleton wheelchair system includes a base, one or more wheels coupled to the base, a body support connected to the base comprising: a back support; and one or more leg supports pivotally coupled to the back support, and a gait wheel linked with the one or more leg supports via one or more gait linkages and configured to rotate the one or more leg supports. The one or more leg supports are configured to pivot about a first axis when the back support is in a standing position mode. The back support is maintained at a fixed position relative to a location of the base when the one or more leg supports pivot about the first axis while the back support is in the standing position mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Moore, Christopher Paul Lee
  • Patent number: 11801152
    Abstract: A valve with an inlet, an outlet that is connected to the inlet via a fluid connection, and a valve body, which can be brought by displacing it along a displacement direction into a first position, in which the fluid connection is blocked, and a second position, in which the fluid connection is open, wherein the inlet is designed and arranged in such a way that a fluid entering through the inlet exerts a total force on the valve body that at least also acts in a force direction which is perpendicular to the displacement direction when the valve body is in the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Ottobock SE & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Herman Boiten
  • Patent number: 11779409
    Abstract: A surgical system includes a sensor positionable in an operating room and configured to detect a position of an object in the operating room. The surgical system also includes a controller configured to assign a desired time milestone for each step of a surgical workflow, automatically distinguish the steps of the surgical workflow based on a change in the position of the object, based on distinguishing the steps of the surgical workflow, record a comparison of an actual timing of each step of the surgical workflow with the desired time milestone for each step of the surgical workflow, and generate feedback relating to usage of the operating room based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Rony Abovitz, Hyosig Kang
  • Patent number: 11779273
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides alert implants that comprise a medical device and an implantable reporting processor (IRP), where one example of such a medical device includes a component for a total knee arthroplasty (TKA) such as a tibial extension, a femoral component for hip replacements, a breast implant, a distal rod for arm or leg breakage repair, a scoliosis rod, a dynamic hip screw, a spinal interbody spacer, and tooling and methods that may be used to form the alert implant, and uses of such alert implants in the health maintenance of patients who receive the implant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Canary Medical Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen M. Bailey, Douglas Bensch, Douglas Brajer, Fred Cushner, Aimee L. Desaki, Jeffrey M. Gross, Winslow T. Harte, Nicholas H. Helseth, David A. Herrin, William L. Hunter, Dermot Keenan, George A. Morales, Shane Murphy, Stephen Raitt, Thomas Snopek, Curtis Troupe