Patents Examined by Michael T. Holtzclaw
  • Patent number: 12376927
    Abstract: Surgical robot systems for remote manipulation having robotic telemanipulators are provided. The surgical robot systems are well adapted for use by the surgeon, seamlessly integratable into the operation room, allow for a surgeon to work between the robot and the patient throughout a surgery in a sterile manner, are relatively low cost, and/or permit integrated laparoscopy. The system preferably includes a master console having a plurality of master links interconnected by a plurality of master joints, and a handle coupled to the master console for operating the telemanipulator. The system further includes a slave console operatively coupled to the master console and having a plurality of slave links interconnected by a plurality of slave joints that move responsive to movement at the master console to permit an end-effector to perform surgery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Distalmotion SA
    Inventors: Julien Chassot, Michael Friedrich, Patrick Schoeneich, Mehrnaz Salehian
  • Patent number: 12376879
    Abstract: At least some embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for creating a shunt in a patient. In some embodiments, a shunting catheter includes a catheter shaft having a distal end and a proximal end, the catheter shaft including a shaft lumen; a balloon shaft disposed in the shaft lumen at a first state and extended from the catheter shaft at a second state; a balloon element disposed on the balloon shaft and expandable at the second state; and at least one electrode of one or more electrodes disposed on the balloon element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: THERAHEART INC.
    Inventor: Rani Abdullah Mahmoudi
  • Patent number: 12376932
    Abstract: A drape covers robotic equipment in a medical environment to maintain sterility. The robotic equipment has an arm with an end surface which attaches to a tool, such as an active end effector. The drape has an extended drape portion that covers the arm, and a shaped drape portion that covers the end of the arm where the arm is clamped to the tool. The drape is clamped inside the clamp, and where the clamping occurs, the drape has a band of material that is reinforced by being thickened or by including a different material. The shape of the band corresponds to the portion of the arm that is clamped by the clamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Zhang, Norbert Johnson, Mir Hussain, James Cascarano, Justin Larson, James Yau, Robert LeBoeuf, II, Michael Norcia
  • Patent number: 12369995
    Abstract: An articulation assembly for a surgical instrument, surgical instrument including the same, and robotic surgical system including a surgical robot and the surgical instrument including the articulation assembly. The articulation assembly includes proximal gear assemblies arranged in diagonally-opposed pairs and distal gear assemblies coupled to the respective proximal gear assemblies and likewise arranged in diagonally-opposed pairs. Each distal gear assembly defines an opposite configuration as its diagonally-opposed distal gear assembly. First and second coupling gears couple the diagonally-opposed pairs of proximal gear assemblies such that an input to one of the proximal gear assemblies of a diagonally-opposed pair provides opposite outputs of the corresponding distal gear assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventor: Kurt J. Anglese
  • Patent number: 12357814
    Abstract: The present invention involves methods of stimulating tissue using one or more series of electrodes to apply energy through a combination of electrodes to stimulate various regions within an area of interest. Such an approach can triangulate areas where stimulation and/or treatment is needed for deep brain stimulation (DBS). In addition, the triangulation system and methods described herein can be applied to any portion of a body where stimulation of a particular area is required while using the vascular network to access tissue surrounding that particular area so that a combination of electrodes can be used to identify the region of interest that requires stimulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: The University of Melbourne
    Inventor: Thomas James Oxley
  • Patent number: 12357226
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for determining medical staffing requirements for administering OIT to patients. Specifically, the methods and systems disclosed herein can determine the time required by a medical staff at a given treatment location to devote to administering OIT to patients as well as the number of patients undergoing OIT over a selected time period. The methods and systems disclosed herein can further provide the time required by providers and clinical staff at a given treatment location to devote to administering OIT to patients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Société des Produits Nestlé S.A.
    Inventors: Hans Chuang, Brian Greenblatt, Richard Smith, Marisa Crowell, Varsha Damle, Chantale Bielak, Robert Grossi, Joy Mabon
  • Patent number: 12357509
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving vision of a subject implanted with an intraocular lens (IOL). In some embodiments, a method includes determining a deviation in position of at least one optical element from a reference line corresponding to alignment of the apex of the cornea, center of the pupil, center of the IOL, and fovea, and/or determining a tilt of at least one of the optical elements relative to the reference line. The method can further include applying a plurality of focused laser pulses to a selected area of the implanted IOL to produce, through refractive index writing, a phase change pattern on the IOL that is configured to compensate for the deviation(s) and/or tilt to improve the foveal vision of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.
    Inventors: Robert Rosen, Franck Emmanuel Gounou, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Aixa Alarcon Heredia
  • Patent number: 12349999
    Abstract: Graphical user guidance for a robotic surgical system is provided. In one embodiment, a graphical user interface for a robotic surgical system comprises a first region and a second region. The first region is used to display an endoscopic view of a surgical site inside a patient taken by an endoscopic camera of the robotic surgical system, and the second region is used to display user feedback information. The graphical user interface overlays a guidance message on top of the endoscopic view of the surgical site in the first region to provide user instructions for interacting with a user input device to engage a robotic arm of the robotic surgical system. Other embodiments are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Verb Surgical Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Mark Johnson, Michal Levin, Anette Lia Freiin Von Kapri
  • Patent number: 12343179
    Abstract: A digital kiosk for performing integrative analysis of health and disease condition and method thereof is disclosed. The digital kiosk (100) comprises a three-dimensional image capturing system configured for capturing phenotypic features associated with a patient using one or more computer vision-based models. The digital kiosk (100) further comprises one or more health sensors (102) configured for capturing physiological health signals associated with the patient, a user interface for obtaining one or more user inputs from the patient, a communication module for establishing communication session with one or more external devices (106), a hardware processor (208) and a memory (202) coupled to the hardware processor (208). The memory (202) comprises a set of program instructions in the form of plurality of subsystems (200) configured to be executed by the hardware processor (208).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: AYUR.AI PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventor: Balasubrahmanyam Pesala
  • Patent number: 12343221
    Abstract: A system including a tool recognition assembly comprising a first target reader with a first detection zone. The system also includes a tool configured to be installed in the tool recognition assembly, wherein the first reader detects a first reading indicating a presence or absence of the first target in the first detection zone during an installation of the tool in the tool recognition assembly, the detected first reading being at least a part of a detected insertion signature, and provides the detected insertion signature to initiate a comparison of the detected insertion signature to one or more model signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Andrey Polonsky, Eric J. Earnst, Jean-Marc Gery, Andrew J. Hazelton, Sarah A. Nichols
  • Patent number: 12336781
    Abstract: A sterile drape assembly may comprise a drape and a cable guide coupled or configured to be coupled to the drape. The drape may comprise a first portion configured to cover a medical device holder and a second portion configured to cover a portion of an arm that supports the medical device holder. The cable guide may comprise two opposing guidepost arms extending in a first direction and defining a first opening and a side arm extending laterally from one of the guidepost arms, the side arm defining a second opening. The first opening is configured to receive and route a first transmission line along a first path. The second opening is spaced from the first opening and is configured to receive and route a second transmission line along a second path spaced from the first path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: John W. Zabinski, Russell Blanchard, Humphrey W. Chow, Gary Ettinger, Sarah Galvis, Stefan Geiger, Craig Gotsill, Amy Kerdok, Justin Krom, Daryl Oshatz
  • Patent number: 12329564
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing with a handle formed on one part of the housing, a display, a sound collecting part, and a controller. A handle is formed on one part of the housing and the display is positioned on another part of the housing and placed on one surface side of the housing. The sound collecting part is positioned on the housing on another surface side of the housing. The controller is configured to input first auscultation sound data obtained through the sound collecting part into a first AI model. The device obtains an abnormality analysis result corresponding to the first auscultation sound data and provides the abnormality analysis result through the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: SMARTSOUND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manchan Lee, Jungho Lee
  • Patent number: 12318202
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for monitoring a state of well-being of an individual. The system includes a remotely operating camera-based sensing unit including at least one image sensor arranged to remotely monitor a skin portion of a user and a close-up sensing unit provided at a hand-held personal care appliance. The close-up sensing unit is arranged to monitor a physiological signal of the user. The monitoring of the physiological signal is temporally aligned with the remote monitoring of the skin portion of the user. The system also includes a control unit arranged to process first sensor data provided by the remotely operating camera-based sensing unit and second sensor data provided by the close-up sensing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Maria Estrella Mena Benito, Ihor Olehovych Kirenko
  • Patent number: 12318078
    Abstract: A manual operation unit and a manual operation group of a medical device (D), which can be used on an endoscope (E); wherein the operation unit (2) has a supporting body (7; 121; 121?; 121b?), which is configured to adhere, in use, to an area of the user's hand, in particular a finger; and a retaining portion (8; 122a; 122a?; 122b?), which is connected to said supporting body (7; 121; 121?; 121b?) and configured to be hooked, in use, to the medical device (D).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: ENDOKEY S.R.L.
    Inventor: Vincenzo Cennamo
  • Patent number: 12310552
    Abstract: A surgical system comprises a manipulator arm and a surgical instrument. The surgical instrument includes: a transmission mechanism including a plurality of interface members; and an elongate body extending from the transmission mechanism. The surgical system further includes an instrument mounting structure mounted to the manipulator arm. The transmission mechanism of the surgical instrument is removably couplable to the instrument mounting structure. The instrument mounting structure includes a plurality of actuator members and a passage defined within the instrument mounting structure. When the surgical instrument is coupled to the instrument mounting structure: the plurality of interface members mate with the plurality of actuator members; and the elongate body of the surgical instrument extends between at least some of the plurality of actuator members and through the passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: David Q. Larkin, Thomas G. Cooper, Catherine J. Mohr, David J. Rosa
  • Patent number: 12310649
    Abstract: A tissue cutting device has an outer sleeve with a distal window and an inner cutting sleeve which moves past the window to cut tissue. The inner cutting sleeve has a lumen which may have a larger proximal diameter than distal diameter. A perimeter of the window may comprise a dielectric material. A distal edge of the inner sleeve may be displaced inwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: MINERVA SURGICAL, INC.
    Inventors: Aaron Germain, Kyle Klein, Michael D. Walker, Benedek Orczy-Timko, Balazs Lesko
  • Patent number: 12290698
    Abstract: A therapeutic irradiation device may include: a source configured to emit electromagnetic radiation in a predetermined spectral range, a sensor configured to detect electromagnetic radiation in the predetermined spectral range of the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the source and to output a signal indicative of a power of the detected radiation, and a controller configured to monitor a magnitude of the signal output by the sensor and to compare the magnitude of the signal with a predetermined magnitude range, wherein the controller is configured to identify a time period during which the magnitude of the signal output by the sensor is included in the predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Fieldpoint (Cyprus) Limited
    Inventors: Sergiy Alexander Gulyar, Viktor Vasilevich Taranov
  • Patent number: 12290690
    Abstract: A biostimulator, such as a leadless cardiac pacemaker, having a patch antenna integrated into a housing, is described. The housing includes an annular wall that contains electronic circuitry of the biostimulator and provides a ground plane of the antenna. The patch antenna includes a meandering trace embedded in a curved dielectric layer that is mounted on the annular wall. The trace provides a conductor of the antenna and the dielectric layer provides a dielectric substrate of the antenna between the conductor and the ground plane. The electronic circuitry contained within the annular wall is electrically connected to the trace via an electrical feedthrough that passes through the annular wall and the dielectric layer. The electrical feedthrough places the electronic circuitry in communication with the antenna to transmit or receive wireless communication signals from an external device. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: PACESETTER, INC.
    Inventors: Souvik Dubey, Perry Li, Craig E. Mar
  • Patent number: 12285230
    Abstract: An end effector for a robotic surgical tool includes a first jaw providing a first jaw extension, a second jaw providing a second jaw extension, and an articulable wrist operatively coupled to the first and second jaws. The wrist includes a distal clevis, first and second pulleys rotatably mounted to the distal clevis at a pivot axis, the first jaw extension being pinned to the first pulley and the second jaw extension being pinned to the second pulley, and a linkage mounted to the first and second jaws and defining a slot. An alignment arm is rotatably mounted to the first pulley at the pivot axis and providing an alignment bar translatable within the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Eric Johnson, Jason Alan Hill
  • Patent number: 12268873
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a medical device for treating a male impotent patient. There is provided a medical device having a constriction device for exerting a force on at least one portion of a tissue wall of a penile portion of the patient to constrict the tissue wall, and a stimulation device with at least one electrode for stimulating the at least one portion of the tissue wall constricted by the constriction device to restrict blood flow leaving the penis to achieve erection, and an interconnection element arranged on the stimulation device to fixate the at least one electrode to the constriction device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Inventor: Peter Forsell