Patents Examined by Sunita Reddy
  • Patent number: 9198654
    Abstract: A transponder string comprising multiple transponders is configured for injection into human tissue. In one embodiment, the transponders are sized to move through a needle for injection into the human tissue. Positions of the transponders with reference to one another may be maintained by coupling the transponders via a filament, adhesive backed substrate, shrink tubing, and/or any other suitable substrate. The transponders are configured to transmit data to a mobile computing device, e.g., a wand, smart phone or wireless tablet positioned outside the human tissue such that positions of the transponders are determinable, e.g., during an excision surgery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Health Beacons, Inc.
    Inventors: Murray A. Reicher, Robert Petcavich
  • Patent number: 9198816
    Abstract: An infant care station includes a horizontal surface configured to support an infant patient wherein at least one wall extends generally vertically from the horizontal surface. The horizontal surface and at least one wall define a microenvironment. A processor operates a display mounted to the care station at a location external to the microenvironment to present a graphical user interface. An auxiliary input device is located within the microenvironment, is communicatively connected to the processor, and is configured for operation by a clinician to interact with the graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: James Patrick Cipriano
  • Patent number: 9179935
    Abstract: Provided are methods for the determination of the viability of a mammalian embryo or a potential embryo generated from a mammalian oocyte, comprising applying a mechanical stimulus to the embryo or oocyte, detecting a temporal response of the embryo or oocyte to the mechanical stimulus, and deriving measurements for one or more parameters from the temporal response, the measurements being indicative of viability. Also provided are methods for selecting an embryo for transfer and methods for enhancing the viability of an embryo or oocyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Livia Zarnescu, David B. Camarillo, Jinnuo Han, Renee A. Reijo Pera, Shawn L. Chavez, Barry Behr
  • Patent number: 9185502
    Abstract: An acoustic transmission device for transmission of acoustical energy to the cochlea includes a liquid conducting assembly, an acoustic input unit, and a vibration transducer abutting a transmission area on an outer surface of the skin over a transition area of the acoustic input unit. The assembly includes a tube with a liquid or semi-liquid medium filling the bore of the tube, and is adapted to be terminated in direct operative association with the cochlea. The acoustic input unit is adapted to be disposed subcutaneously between a skull bone surface and an external skin surface. The vibration transducer is adapted to be magnetically attachable at a fastening area adjacent to the transmission area by a magnetic assembly configured to be provided under the skin in the fastening area around the transition area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: OTICON MEDICAL A/S
    Inventor: Tomas Johansson
  • Patent number: 9168120
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a medical device and a method of placing the medical device within a patient's body. The medical device includes a support member, a first elongate member, a second elongate member and a coupling member. The first elongate member and the second elongate member extend from the support member. The coupling member includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion of the coupling member is coupled to a distal end portion of the first elongate member and the second portion of the coupling member is coupled to a distal end portion of the second elongate member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Ty Fairneny, Michael F. Weiser
  • Patent number: 9168035
    Abstract: An implantable support member having at least one adjusting portion operable for adjusting a length or tension of the support member after placement of support member anchors. The support member is operable to provide mid-urethral support for treating urinary incontinence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Caldera Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Anand Vemuri, Stéphane Gobron
  • Patent number: 9161829
    Abstract: In one general aspect, a medical device can include a first elongate member made of a material and having a proximal end portion configured to be attached to a first portion of a bodily portion within a body of a patient where the first elongate member has a distal end portion. The medical device can include a second elongate member made of the material and having a proximal end portion configured to be attached to a second portion of the bodily portion where the first elongate member has a distal end portion. The medical device can also include a third elongate member having a proximal end portion in contact with and coupled to the distal end portion of the first elongate member and in contact with and coupled to the distal end portion of the second elongate member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Dolan
  • Patent number: 9155603
    Abstract: A medical device and a method for delivering a bodily implant are disclosed. The medical device includes an insertion member, an adjustment member and a button. The insertion member further includes a tip. The insertion member has a curved portion proximate the tip and a straight portion distally located from the tip. The curved and straight portions are configured to be placed into a channel within a housing of the insertion member. The adjustment member is coupled to the insertion member distally and is configured to be advanced and retracted, thereby advancing and retracting the insertion member with respect to the housing. The button is moveable coupled to the housing of the insertion member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael S. H. Chu
  • Patent number: 9144426
    Abstract: A pelvic implant assembly (100) comprising a support portion (128) and an extension portion (124), a self-fixating tip (10, 120) connected to the extension portion, the self-fixating tip comprising a base (12) comprising a proximal base end (14) and a distal base end (16), the proximal base end being connected to the extension portion, the base comprising an internal channel (18) extending from the proximal base end and at least partially along a length of the base toward the distal base end, a fixed lateral extension (20) extending from the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: AMS Research Corporation
    Inventors: Jason W. Ogdahl, Jessica L. Roll, Mona N. Dahdah, Robert E. Lund, John F. Otte, Karen Pilney Montpetit, Chaouki A. Khamis, Richard C. Kaleta, Kelly Ann Chapman, Jelica D. Wold
  • Patent number: 9119392
    Abstract: An organ support apparatus includes: an enclosure having a floor, opposed side walls, opposed end walls, and a lid; a first support pad disposed on the floor of the enclosure, the first support pad comprising a plurality of inflatable and flexible chambers; and an inflation apparatus coupled to the chambers and operable to individually inflate or deflate each chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: BioMedInnovations, LLC
    Inventors: Donald G. Faulkner, John L. Robertson
  • Patent number: 9095696
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for magnetic field therapy which is preferably adapted for producing nuclear magnetic resonances in the tissue to be treated. The device comprises a base and two side parts having coils integrated therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Inventor: Axel Muntermann
  • Patent number: 9099209
    Abstract: A shielding device includes two elongated, parallel tubes joined at a distal portion, and a shield at least one of removably and slidably situated at the distal portion. An assembly includes an applicator configured for a treatment site, an assembly block attached to the applicator, at least one rotary unit configured to be rotatably received in the assembly block, and at least one shielding device that is configured to be movably received in a respective rotary unit. A method of using the shielding device with an applicator includes inserting the distal portion of the shielding device to a treatment site, and adjusting a position of the distal portion relative to a distal end of the applicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: MICK RADIO-NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS, INC.
    Inventors: Felix W. Mick, Paul DaSilva
  • Patent number: 9056200
    Abstract: A hazardous fluid transport container and a hazardous fluid delivery system are disclosed. The hazardous fluid transport container includes a housing enclosing an at least partially shielded enclosure. First and second fluid path elements are disposed within the housing, with the first fluid path element and second fluid path element fluidly coupled together. A pump unit may be provided for dispensing fluid from the first and second fluid path elements optionally into a third fluid path element. Also, methods for priming the hazardous fluid transport container and for mitigating laminar flow injection bolus spreading are disclosed. Additionally, disclosed is a radioactive fluid transport container for a syringe or other container. The radioactive fluid transport container allows the syringe or container to be used in an injection procedure without removal from the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Bayer Medical Care Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur E. Uber, III, Mark Trocki, Marc A. Mabie, Larry McCutchan, L. George Siddoway, Kevin P. Cowan, Lisa M. Coates, John F. Kalafut, Aaron Hughes, David M. Griffiths, Peter Twichell, Julie Gulick, Frederick W. Trombley, III
  • Patent number: 9022919
    Abstract: A vaginal insert device including a support portion, a stabilizing portion, a removal device, and at least one fluid passageway extending though the support portion is disclosed. The vaginal insert relaxes in the vagina to deliver outward compression force against the bladder neck via the anterior vaginal wall to assist prevention of urinary stress incontinence. The substantially cylindrical support portion has a distal end, a proximal end, and a hollow interior section with a plurality of struts extending from the distal end to the proximal end. Desirably, the plurality of struts helically curve as the plurality of struts extend from the distal end to the proximal end. The largest circumference of the support portion has an insertion diameter when the plurality of struts are twisted together and an in-use diameter wherein the plurality of struts are extended outward into a convex position larger than the insertion diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Kimberly Louise Ellefson, Jason Robert Boon, Garry Roland Woltman, MaryAnn Zunker, Patricia Ann Samolinski, Walter George Bauer, Vivian Kate Barad, Nicole Sarah Kahn, Gina Lynn Romero, Elger Oberwelz, James Rolfe Yurchenco, Jonah Lawrence Houston, Tiffany Heather Card, Martin Schnitzer
  • Patent number: 9022922
    Abstract: Described are methods, implants, insertion tools, and related systems and kits, for placing an implant to treat urinary incontinence; the implants include soft tissue anchors that are capable of engaging needles of the insertion tools, and the implants are designed to place a central support portion at a location to support a urethra with extension portions and soft tissue anchors extending to tissue at regions of an obturator foramen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: AMS Research Corporation
    Inventor: L. Dean Knoll
  • Patent number: 9011310
    Abstract: Effective systems and methods for improving neural communication impairment of a vertebrate being and affecting motor activity of a peripheral body part including a first signal-providing component configured to provide pulsed peripheral stimulation signals at the peripheral body part, a second signal-providing component configured to provide a pulsed motor cortex stimulation signal to a motor cortex area, a substantially DC signal-providing component configured to provide direct current spinal stimulation signal at a neural spinal junction and a controller component configured to control timing of the pulsed peripheral stimulation signals and the pulsed motor cortex stimulation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: The Research Foundation of the City University of New York
    Inventor: Zaghloul Ahmed
  • Patent number: 8979735
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a controller for remotely controlling an implantable device that is used to adjust a gastric band, and the controller transmits a telemetric signal to the implantable device. The apparatus further comprises a table that provides support for the controller. A rail is oriented in a first direction with respect to the table, and a tray is slidably coupled to the rail. The tray receives the controller, and the rail moves the tray and the controller in the first direction with respect to the table. The apparatus further comprises a roller coupled to the rail. The roller aids in moving the rail, the tray, and the controller in a second direction with respect to the table. The apparatus further comprises an attachment mechanism for securing the controller to the tray. The apparatus locates the controller in a desired location with respect to a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Apollo Endosurgery, Inc.
    Inventor: Mike Augarten
  • Patent number: 8961384
    Abstract: An electrical system having an underlying structure resembling the double helix most commonly associated with DNA is used to produce useful electromagnetic fields for health applications and/or medical applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Medical Energetics Ltd
    Inventor: David G. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8956273
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) are provided for synchronous, asynchronous, or independent triggering the firing multiple of electromagnets from either a single power source or multiple energy sources. These methods are particularly useful for stimulation of deep (e.g., sub-cortical) brain regions, or for stimulation of multiple brain regions, since controlled magnetic pulses reaching the deep target location may combine to form a patterned pulse train that activates the desired volume of target tissue. Furthermore, the methods, devices and systems described herein may be used to control the rate of firing of action potentials in one or more brain regions, such as slow or fast rate rTMS. For example, described herein are multiple electromagnetic stimulation sources, each of which are activated independently to create a cumulative effect at the intersections of the electromagnetic stimulation trajectories, typically by means of a computerized calculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Cervel Neurotech, Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Mishelevich, M. Bret Schneider
  • Patent number: 8956276
    Abstract: A medical article is used to repair prolapses of various pelvic organs including vaginal vault prolapse. The medical article can include a first flap comprising a dual density mesh formed of a first and second filament, a second flap comprising a single density mesh formed of the first filament, and a third flap comprising a single density mesh formed of the second filament. The first, second, and third flap can share a common intersection that can form an arc. The medical article can be formed by knitting a uniform piece of mesh and the arc can be configured to conform to a surface of a pelvic organ. Methods of manufacturing and methods of using the medical article are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: C.R. Bard, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Young, Walter Freitag, Doug Evans