Patents Examined by Jing Rui Ou
  • Patent number: 12207999
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (10) for facilitating the implantation of a surgical mesh (1) having at least one barbed face (2), said device comprising: said surgical mesh (1), at least one biocompatible film (11, 11a, 11b) shaped and dimensioned to at least partially cover said barbed face (2), at least one cable (12) arranged to removably attach said film (11, 11a, 11b) to said barbed face (2) of said mesh (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SOFRADIM PRODUCTION
    Inventor: Genevieve Doucet
  • Patent number: 12201286
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sealing device for repair of cardiac and vascular defects or tissue opening such as a patent foramen ovale (PFO) or shunt in the heart, the vascular system, etc. and particularly provides an occluder device and trans-catheter occluder delivery system. The sealing device would have improved conformity to heart anatomy and be easily deployed, repositioned, and retrieved at the opening site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventor: Brad W. Van Orden
  • Patent number: 12193699
    Abstract: An adjustable loop stripper for stretching an arterial wall outwardly as plaque is excavated inwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ENDOVASCULAR INSTRUMENTS, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Wiita, Thomas L. Kelly
  • Patent number: 12144498
    Abstract: A laparoscopic suturing device is provided. The suturing device can pass a suturing needle back and forth between jaws of a jaw assembly to suture tissue at a surgical site in a minimally invasive procedure. The jaw assembly can have a pivotable jaw member in each jaw to position the jaw assembly and needle in a low-profile stowed configuration for insertion through a low diameter surgical port. The jaw assembly can be actuated by a handle assembly that provides simultaneous needle passing from a driving jaw to a receiving jaw and latching the needle within the receiving jaw in a single trigger cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Medical Resources Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Gorski, Scott V. Taylor, Kimball B. McGinley
  • Patent number: 12082795
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sealing device for repair of cardiac and vascular defects or tissue opening such as a patent foramen ovale (PFO) or shunt in the heart, the vascular system, etc. and particularly provides an occluder device and trans-catheter occluder delivery system. The sealing device would have improved conformity to heart anatomy and be easily deployed, repositioned, and retrieved at the opening site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven J. Masters
  • Patent number: 12083005
    Abstract: The present disclosure comprises micropatterned fabric, meshes, textiles, and implantable devices which may include having one substrate including a mesh, a second substrate having a microstructured surface, and a fibrous layer disposed therebetween. The fibrous layer comprises a plurality of randomly oriented fibers. The devices having the microstructured surface may include a plurality of first level microfeatures and a plurality of second level microfeatures wherein the plurality of second level microfeatures are disposed hierarchically the first level microfeatures. Also disclosed are methods for making such micropatterned fabric, meshes, textiles, and implantable devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: BVW Holding AG
    Inventors: Michael Milbocker, Lukas Bluecher
  • Patent number: 12076000
    Abstract: Methods and devices for securing soft tissue to a rigid material such as bone. A tissue capture anchor is described that comprises an anchor body and a spreader such that tissue may be captured or compressed between outside surfaces on the anchor and spreader and inside surfaces of a bone hole to secure the tissue within the hole. A bone anchor is described that comprises an anchor body with expandable tines and a spreader that expands the tines into bone. The spreader captures tissue via a suture loop at the distal end of the bone anchor. Also described is an inserter that can be used to insert the anchor into bone and move the spreader within the anchor to expand the anchor and capture the tissue between the anchor and the bone. Methods are described that allow use of single bone anchor to secure tissue to bone or also to use more than one bone anchor to provide multiple lengths of suture material to compress a large area of soft tissue against bone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Conmed Corporation
    Inventors: Malcolm Heaven, Michael Ko, John P. Greelis, Mikxay Sirivong
  • Patent number: 12070242
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tube body cleaning apparatus. A tube body cleaning apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a body having a set length and formed from a flexible material; a work member positioned at one point of the length direction of the body and rotatable, about a shaft provided in the length direction of the body, with respect to the body; and an expansion member positioned at one point of the length direction of the body and enabling a volume, which protrudes outward from the body, to increase by expanding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY)
    Inventors: Gunhee Jang, Na Hyun Kim, Eunsoo Jung
  • Patent number: 12070402
    Abstract: Stent device has a stent cover bonding to the stent wires forming the stent body at a plurality of bonding portions that are remote from the cross over points of the stent wire. By allocating the bonding portions to the stent wires in between the cross over portions, the axial flexibility of the stent device is maintained. The stent cover bonded by the disclosed bonding portions contributes to preventing lumen tissues to penetrate into the stent body and clogging the stent while placement of the bonding portions bonding the stent cover to the stent device provides variations of positive effects to the cover stent device and to the patient in which the stent device is placed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Mamoru Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 12059337
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a surgical textile (1) comprising an arrangement of biocompatible yarns defining a first face (2) and a second face (3) of the textile, the second face opposite the first face, the textile being provided at least on an area of a surface of one of its faces with a plurality of barbs (4) showing substantially a first length L1, measured perpendicularly to that surface, characterised in that said area of said surface is further provided with a plurality of loops (5), said loops showing substantially a second length L2, measured perpendicularly to that surface, where L2 is greater than L1. The invention further relates to a process for manufacturing such a textile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: SOFRADIM PRODUCTION
    Inventors: Damien Simons, Nizar Bechir, Thierry Brune
  • Patent number: 12059137
    Abstract: A surgical instrument includes a shaft, a force transmission mechanism disposed at a first end of the shaft, an end effector disposed at a second end of the shaft, an actuation element that extends along the shaft from the force transmission mechanism to the end effector, and an actuation element guide extending along the shaft. The actuation element guide defines a lumen in which the actuation element guide is received. The actuation element guide is compressed into a pre-compressed state along at least a portion of an axial length of the shaft. The actuation element guide can be compressed between first and second blocks of the instrument. The instrument can include a flush tube configured to receive a cleaning fluid, with the actuation element guide being in flow communication with the flush tube to receive the cleaning fluid in the lumen of the actuation element guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Samuel T. Crews, Nicole Kernbaum, Lawrence Kerver, Harsukhdeep Singh Ratia
  • Patent number: 12036120
    Abstract: A lock delivery system is disclosed. The lock mechanism is reversible between an unlocked configuration and a locked configuration. The lock mechanism may comprise a casing, and a first body and a second body arranged spaced-apart in the casing. The first body may comprise a first gripping portion extending to a first actuating arm, and a first spring arranged spaced-apart from the first actuating arm. The second body may comprise a second gripping portion extending to a second actuating arm, and a second spring arranged spaced-apart from the second actuating arm. The first and second bodies are each pivotable about a respective first pivot point and second pivot point so as to move the lock mechanism between an unlocked configuration and a locked configuration. A lock delivery catheter may be used as a means to move the lock mechanism between the unlocked configuration and the locked configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: VESALIUS CARDIOVASCULAR INC.
    Inventors: Peter Lloyd Skarsgard, Colm O'Sullivan, Ryan Harrington
  • Patent number: 12029668
    Abstract: A handle assembly for a prosthesis delivery device is disclosed. The handle assembly comprises a stationary main handle having a proximal end and a distal end and an outer surface extending therebetween. A first helical groove is formed in at least a portion of the outer surface of the main handle and a first trigger wire actuation mechanism disposed about the main handle and rotatably moveable relative to the main handle. A first trigger wire is operatively connected to the first trigger wire actuation mechanism, the first trigger wire having a prosthesis capture condition and a prosthesis release condition. Movement of the first trigger wire actuation mechanism causes movement of the first trigger wire thereby moving the first trigger wire from the prosthesis capture condition to the prosthesis release condition. Additional trigger wire actuation mechanisms operatively connected to one or more additional trigger wires may also be disposed about the main handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Ryan C. Bradway, Charles L. Baxter
  • Patent number: 12004976
    Abstract: The invention described herein relates to telescoping stents. The embodiments described herein allow for adequate securement to, accommodation for movement by, and prevention of injury of tubular organs or hollow areas of the body. Certain embodiments relate to telescoping stents with loop interlocking mechanisms. Further embodiments relate to telescoping stents with ball-in-groove interlocking mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: SaiNath Intellectual Properties, LLC
    Inventor: Venkata Sesha Sayi Nath Iyunni
  • Patent number: 12004951
    Abstract: A delivery device for percutaneously delivering a stented prosthetic heart includes a sheath, a handle, and adjustment device including a fine adjustment mechanism, and an outer stability shaft. The sheath defines a lumen and is configured to compressively constrain the stented prosthetic heart valve. The handle is coupled to the proximal portion of the sheath and includes an actuator mechanism coupled to a proximal portion of the sheath that is configured to selectively move the sheath relative to the housing to release the stented prosthetic heat valve. The adjustment device is coupled to the handle and includes an adjustment lumen through which the sheath and the handle slidably extend. The outer stability shaft is coupled to the adjustment device. The fine adjustment mechanism is configured to selectively move the handle and the sheath relative to the adjustment device and the outer stability shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic Vascular, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Sandstrom
  • Patent number: 11998217
    Abstract: This is a device, belonging to the medical and hospital artifacts industry, developed to accelerate the hemostatic process for patients undergoing radial punctures, partially compressing the artery subjected to treatment; said cryo-hemostatic device is essentially presented in the form of a wristband (1), providing end bands (2) providing velcro-based closing, interconnected by an intermediate band (3) below which a first cryogenic reservoir pad is located (4), which can be filled with a saline substance by the action of a syringe connected to the first connection nipple (5) attached to the first tube (6), flanked by the second external reservoir pad (7), also provided with a second connection nipple (8), attached to the second tube (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Inventor: Alexandre Arantes Aquino
  • Patent number: 11998468
    Abstract: The method of delivering an implant in an intracranial vessel includes deploying an anchor of a tethering device in an anchoring vessel forming a first fixation point and advancing a guide-sheath to a location near the anchoring vessel. The tethering device has a tether extending proximally from the anchor and the guide-sheath has at least one lumen. The method includes attaching the guide-sheath to the tether of the tethering device forming a second fixation point proximal to the first fixation point, delivering an implant through the lumen of the guide-sheath towards a treatment site distal to the first fixation point and located within an intracranial vessel, and deploying the implant at the treatment site. Related devices, systems, and methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Route 92 Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Tony M. Chou, Joey English
  • Patent number: 11986200
    Abstract: Various exemplary methods and devices for actuating surgical instruments are provided. In general, a surgical device can include one or more actuation shafts configured to facilitate actuation of the device. In an exemplary embodiment, the device can include four actuation shafts, two actuation shafts to facilitate articulation of the device, one actuation shaft to facilitate opening and closing of jaws at a distal end of the device, and one actuation shaft to facilitate moving a cutting element of the device. In an exemplary embodiment, each of the one or more actuation shafts can include a distal elongate member and a proximal elongate member having a proximal end attached to a distal end of the distal elongate member. The proximal elongate member can be rigid, and the distal elongate member can be flexible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Chad P. Boudreaux, Jason R. Lesko, Eric N. Johnson, Kevin M. Fiebig, Carl J. Draginoff, Jr., Scott B. Killinger, Kris E. Kallenberger, Barry C. Worrell
  • Patent number: 11986180
    Abstract: An adjustable suture locking apparatus includes a lock pin, an outer tube, a handle, and an adjusting device. The lock pin is used to receive or fix a suture. The outer tube defines a receiving cavity. The lock pin is disposed at a distal end of the receiving cavity. The handle includes a fixing portion coupled to a proximal end of the outer tube. The adjusting device is disposed on the fixing portion. The adjusting device is coupled to a proximal end of the suture and operable to adjust tensioning or loosening of the suture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: HANGZHOU VALGEN MEDTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weiwei Zhang, Tingchao Zhang, Xianzhang Zheng
  • Patent number: 11980351
    Abstract: A device for visible puncture includes a balloon, a canula, a needle tube, an image acquisition device, and a fluid injection tube. The balloon includes a first end including a first hole, and a second end including a second hole. The canula includes a first axial through hole. The needle tube includes a second axial through hole and is disposed in the first axial through hole. The image acquisition device is disposed in the second axial through hole. The balloon is axially disposed on the canula. The first end of the balloon is disposed on the outer wall of the front end of the needle tube, and the second end of the balloon is disposed on the outer wall of the front end of the canula. The second axial through hole includes a fluid channel disposed between the outer wall of the needle tube and the canula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN YOUCARE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianxing Li, Jinping Li, Chengpeng Liu, Gang Long, Yeyun Mao, Xuecheng Hu