Patents Examined by Katherine M Shi
  • Patent number: 12213701
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a labor assistance system comprising a perianal support member and grip. The perianal support member includes a contact surface, an inner surface opposing the contact surface, and a rigid compression element. The contact surface has a generally continuous compression surface apex extending from the contact surface in a first direction, oriented to extend from an anterior edge to a posterior edge along a midline axis in a sagittal plane of the patient without substantially interfering with the birthing canal of the patient. The grip is coupled to the inner surface between the anterior edge and the posterior edge of the support member. The present disclosure also describes an intrapartum pelvic floor support device that is applied to tissue in the perianal and/or anococcygeal regions of the patient during an intrapartum period to support the anococcygeal region tissues and at least a portion of the pelvic floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Stetrix, Inc.
    Inventors: David D. Blurton, Mark Buchanan
  • Patent number: 12213689
    Abstract: A method of using a suction device to remove an object from a subject's body includes extending a suction device into the body through a lumen of a medical device and expanding the suction head from a contracted configuration to an expanded configuration within the body. The suction head may be provided at a distal end of an elongate conduit. The method may also include applying suction to move the object into the expanded suction head, and removing the suction device with the object from the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventor: Ronald Ciulla
  • Patent number: 12213694
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of method and apparatus are provided for resurfacing of skin that includes formation of a plurality of small holes, e.g., having widths less than about 1 mm or 0.5 mm, using a mechanical apparatus, thus avoiding generation of thermal damage as occurs with conventional laser resurfacing procedures and devices. The holes formed can be well-tolerated by the skin, and can exhibit shorter healing times and less swelling than conventional resurfacing procedures. The apparatus includes one or more needles adapted to remove a small portion of tissue when inserted into and withdrawn from the skin. The fractional surface coverage of the holes can be between about 0.1 and 0.7, or between about 0.2 and 0.5. The exemplary method and apparatus can produce cosmetic effects such as increases in collagen content, epidermal thickness, and dermal/epidermal junction undulations in the skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventor: William G. Austen
  • Patent number: 12207844
    Abstract: A system for treating uterine tissue having a seal assembly configured for positioning in a patient's cervical canal and uterine cavity; an expandable distal balloon portion; an expandable elongate medial balloon portion configured for movement between a first transversely expanded shape for engaging a cervical canal and a second transversely non-expanded shape for trans-cervical insertion; and a fluid source in communication with distal balloon portion and medial balloon portion for expansion of said balloon portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Minerva Surgical, Inc.
    Inventor: Csaba Truckai
  • Patent number: 12201320
    Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for guiding a needle into a target location of a patient's body are provided. The system includes a planned needle guide trajectory and a guide for removable attachment to a smartphone. The guide includes at least one needle guiding aperture extending substantially perpendicularly to a screen of the smartphone. The needle guiding aperture defines an actual needle guide trajectory. An inclinometer application is running on the smartphone. The inclinometer application indicates to a user conformance of the actual needle guide trajectory to the planned needle guide trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Inventor: Joshua M. Polster
  • Patent number: 12201290
    Abstract: A system and method for completing one or more stitches without withdrawal and reloading of an inserter. A suture passer includes a distal end having a body with a gripping portion and a suture holding portion. The gripping portion and the suture holding portion are spaced, defining a recess in the body there between. A tube of the gripping portion extends toward the suture holding portion and maintains a needle therein. The needle is slidable within the tube between a retracted position and an extended position. The needle has a notch at its distal end for catching and securing a limb of suture. In the retracted position, the distal end of the needle is within the tube of the gripping portion and in the extended position, the distal end of the needle extends into the suture holding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: CONMED CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adrian Bosworth, Peter Miller
  • Patent number: 12193697
    Abstract: Some implementations provide a high-powered compact ultrasonic transducer having an integral piezoelectric ceramic force sensing element utilized to enable enhanced tissue selectivity with a piezoelectric based transducer. Some implementations additionally or alternatively relate to methods and apparatus for driving ultrasonic surgical devices, such as methods and apparatus that modulate an amplitude of a drive signal, provided to an ultrasonic surgical device, in accordance with a selected tissue selectivity level. For example, the amplitude of the drive signal for a given tissue selectivity level can be varied with time in accordance with amplitude modification parameters that are particularized to the given tissue selectivity level. Some of those implementations additionally implement a corresponding duty cycle, for the drive signal, that corresponds to the selected tissue selectivity level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Integra LifeSciences Enterprises, LLLP
    Inventors: Daniel J. Cotter, Prakash Manandhar, Nicholas Allen, Saurav V. Gupta
  • Patent number: 12193701
    Abstract: A medical device for removing an object in a body cavity includes a rotatable drive shaft having a lumen, a cutter disposed at a distal portion of the drive shaft and by which the object is cut, a handle disposed at a proximal portion of the drive shaft and including a first motor configured to rotate the drive shaft, a fluid flow path having an inlet and an outlet, the inlet communicating with the lumen, a rotatable portion in the fluid flow path, and a second motor configured to rotate the rotatable portion such that a fluid that has flowed into the fluid flow path from the inlet moves toward the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuichi Tada
  • Patent number: 12178462
    Abstract: The invention relates to a surgical instrument with a grip area, which has a first handle part, which is fixed in the position of use, and a second handle part, which can be moved relative to the first handle part along an adjustment direction, wherein a ratio between a first distance between the first handle part and the second handle part and a second distance between the first handle part and the second handle part is constant or almost constant in the direction of the first handle part, at least over a partial area of the actuating path, during a movement of the second handle part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: MORPHEUS AG
    Inventors: Timo Rack, Heiko Blessing
  • Patent number: 12178457
    Abstract: A debris removal system includes an elongated shaft extending from a proximal end to a distal end and including a shaft lumen, the shaft being configured to be inserted through a bodily lumen to a target surgical site, a vibration motor coupled to the elongated shaft via a vibration collar, the vibration motor including a rotatable shaft and at least one weight coupled to the rotatable shaft, the weight being asymmetrically shaped about a central axis of the shaft such that rotation of the shaft creates vibrational energy along the length of the elongated shaft to dislodge debris within the target surgical site, and a vacuum pump connected to the elongated shaft and configured to vacuum dislodged debris from the target surgical site through the shaft lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter J. Pereira, Martin Phelan, Vincent Lai
  • Patent number: 12178423
    Abstract: Constructs, devices, and methods for dynamically compressing tissue. An exemplary construct comprises a dynamic tensioning device configured to be implanted in a subject and defining a suture-coupling site. The dynamic tensioning device may be deformable superelastically from a resting state to a stretched state. A suture may be connected to the dynamic tensioning device at the suture-coupling site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: OSSISCURA, LLC
    Inventor: Chad M. Ferguson
  • Patent number: 12171435
    Abstract: An endovascular device, including an elongated flexible sheath defining a lumen with an inner opening sized for enabling selective advancement of an endovascular instrument therethrough, the sheath having at least a first region and a second region; an electrode within the first region of the sheath; and a constrictor associated with the first region of the sheath, the constrictor being configured, while at least the first region and the second region of the sheath are positioned within a body and in response to an input received from outside the body, to reversibly narrow the lumen of the sheath in an area adjacent the electrode to thereby bring the electrode into contact with an adjacent portion of the endovascular instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: RAPID MEDICAL LTD.
    Inventors: Eyal Kaufman, Matan Gedulter, Ronen Eckhouse
  • Patent number: 12171433
    Abstract: Described here are systems, devices, and methods for providing remote manipulation or traction to tissue using one or more graspers, delivery devices, and magnetic control assemblies. The graspers may be configured for insertion into the patient during a minimally-invasive procedure, such as a laparoscopic operation. The graspers may be configured to releasably connect to tissue. In some embodiments, the grasper may comprise a clip, a clamp, a suction device, a coil, or the like, and may be configured to connect to any suitable tissue. Delivery devices may be configured to releasably engage a grasper to deliver the grasper, remove it from the patient, or reposition it. The delivery devices may additionally be configured to actuate the grasper to attach it to tissue and/or detach it from tissue. The magnetic control elements may be configured to be positioned externally of the body to move, reposition, and/or hold the grasper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: LEVITA MAGNETICS INTERNATIONAL CORP.
    Inventors: Alberto Rodriguez-Navarro, Mariel Fabro, Archana Nair, Olgy Datto
  • Patent number: 12171962
    Abstract: A functionally integratable catheter system comprising functional units that can be assembled to produce different configurations. The functional units include: one or more FICS support catheters; one or more FICS dilators: one or more FICS PTA catheters; and one or more FICS lock-grip handles. Functional units can be provided in a pre-assembled form by the manufacturer, optionally pre-packaged as a device tray, for assembly into different configurations by clinical operators. The configurational adaptability of the FICS platform enables physicians to efficiently address multiple procedural aspects of treatment processes, including lesion access, lesion penetration, guide-wire negotiation, lesion recanalization, and dilation, by providing in situ treatment options, including intraluminal and/or extraluminal recanalization, and enables multi-stage, patient-customized treatments of complex lesions in vivo, including lesion-length-selective, multi-stage angioplasty treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: BIOTRONIK AG
    Inventors: Marc Gianotti, Ulf Fritz, Dragana Gajic
  • Patent number: 12167955
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to prosthetics for augmenting or repairing a tissue defect, such as a ventral or incisional hernia. In some embodiments, a repair prosthetic may include a patch body and a first fastener attached to a first portion of the patch body. A coupler may be attached to and extend from a second portion of the patch body, and a second fastener may be attached to the second portion of the patch body via the coupler. The coupler may be retracted relative to the second portion of the patch body or the second fastener to apply tension to the patch body in some embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Davol Inc.
    Inventor: Joshua Yao Guo
  • Patent number: 12156650
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a length adaptive surgical suture comprising a monofilament or a braid of a plurality of filaments, the suture having an original length when implanted and a second length that is different from the original length within a first twenty-four (24) hour period of time after implantation to accommodate tissue swelling. The present invention is also directed to configurations and combinations that enable length adaptive results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.
    Inventors: Sasa Andjelic, Marc Wisnudel, Kenneth M. Keilman, Leo B. Kriksunov, Robert J. Tannhauser
  • Patent number: 12156813
    Abstract: This application relates to methods, systems, and apparatus for replacing native heart valves with prosthetic heart valves and treating valvular insufficiency. In some implementations, a heart valve leaflet clipping mechanism includes a delivery apparatus and clipping arms. The clipping arms are coupled to the delivery apparatus. The clipping arms are movable between an open position and a closed position. The two clipping arms are biased to the closed position. The delivery apparatus is configured to hold the clipping arms in the open position. The delivery apparatus is configured to allow the clipping arms to move to the closed position to engage native heart valve leaflet tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Emil Karapetian, Maria Charles Vija Stanislaus, Gregory Bak-Boychuk, Christopher J. Olson, Cristobal R. Hernandez, William C. Brunnett, Netanel Benichou, Lauren R. Freschauf, Alexander J. Siegel, Stanton J. Rowe, Alison S. Curtis
  • Patent number: 12150644
    Abstract: A suture clip includes a disc body having at least two adjacent portions joined by a hinge at one end and a latch at another end. Suture engagement surfaces are formed on a first and second portion of the disc body so that the first and second suture engagement surfaces can close sufficiently tightly to immobilize a pair of suture lengths therebetween when the two portions are closed and held together by the latch. A suture clip applier holds a plurality of such suture clips typically in a magazine, an open configuration where the suture engagement surfaces are held apart. Single suture clips are advanced by an advancement mechanism over a pair of suture ends having a midsection in tissue. A closing mechanism closes and latches the first and second portions of the disc body together to capture the pair of suture ends therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: VQuad Medical, LLC
    Inventors: Sebastian Khairkhahan, Alexander Khairkhahan
  • Patent number: 12150674
    Abstract: Methods and devices for treatment of a uterine cavity to prevent adhesions following a surgical intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Meditrina, Inc.
    Inventors: Csaba Truckai, John H. Shadduck
  • Patent number: 12150667
    Abstract: There is a main tube with a flexible pull wire guide with a pull wire slidably housed within. A plunger is slidably housed within the main tube, and moves from an open orientation to a close orientation. A specimen snare wire loop is fixedly attached to the end of the pull wire. A basket wire has a loop with an attached specimen basket. The specimen snare loop and the basket wire loop are aligned. The snare wire cuts the specimen, and the basket wire loop and net captures the specimen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Inventor: Adisesha B. Reddy