Patents by Inventor Csaba Truckai

Csaba Truckai has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TREATING PYRONIES DISEASE
    Publication number: 20220218401
    Abstract: Devices and methods, and for remodeling tissues to treat Peyronie's disease including devices and methods adapted for cryogenic cooling of targeted plaque in a male penis to selectively remodel targeted tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Kemeny Healthcare Inc.
    Inventor: Csaba TRUCKAI
  • Endoscope and method of use
    Patent number: 11369253
    Abstract: An endoscope includes a shaft assembly having proximal and distal ends and a longitudinal axis therebetween. A handle is coupled to the proximal end of the shaft assembly, and an elastomeric body housing an image sensor and at least one LED is comprises a distal end of the shaft. The elastomeric body is deformable between a repose straight insertion profile and a deflected offset profile by the insertion of a tool shaft through the shaft assembly and an expandable-collapsible working channel in the elastomeric body. The viewing angle of the image sensor is moved from a first selected angle to a second selected angle when the elastomeric body is actuated from the repose profile to the deflected offset profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Meditrina, Inc.
    Inventor: Csaba Truckai
  • Medical device and methods
    Patent number: 11350985
    Abstract: Hysteroscopic system includes a hysteroscope having a main body coupled to an extension portion. The extension portion may be a shaft configured to extend transcervically to a patient's uterine cavity. First, second, and third channels extend from the main body to a distal end of the extension portion. A fluid source is coupleable to a proximal end of the first channel, and a pressure sensor is coupleable to a proximal end of the second channel. A tissue resecting probe is configured for introduction through the third channel. At least one resistance feature is included which is configured to provide a selected level of resistance to axial sliding of the probe through the third channel while permitting rotation of the probe within the third channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: MINERVA SURGICAL, INC.
    Inventors: Aaron Germain, Csaba Truckai
  • METHODS FOR EVALUATING THE INTEGRITY OF A UTERINE CAVITY
    Publication number: 20220151690
    Abstract: Methods, systems and devices for evaluating the integrity of a uterine cavity. A method comprises introducing transcervically a probe into a patient's uterine cavity, providing a flow of a fluid (e.g., CO2) through the probe into the uterine cavity and monitoring the rate of the flow to characterize the uterine cavity as perforated or non-perforated based on a change in the flow rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: Minerva Surgical, Inc.
    Inventors: Akos TOTH, Robin BEK, Dominique FILLOUX, Tejas N. MAZMUDAR, Csaba TRUCKAI
  • TISSUE ABLATION SYSTEMS AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20220142697
    Abstract: Tissue is treated using a radiofrequency power supply connected to an applicator having a chamber filled with an electrically non-conductive gas surrounded by a thin dielectric wall. A radiofrequency voltage is applied at a level sufficient to ionize the gas into a plasma and to capacitively couple the ionized plasma with the tissue to deliver radiofrequency current to ablate or otherwise treat the tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Hermes Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Akos Toth, Csaba Truckai
  • ENDOSCOPE AND METHOD OF USE
    Publication number: 20220142466
    Abstract: Endoscopes and methods of their use, where the endoscopes provide a low profile or cross-section which facilitates introduction through small body passages, such as patient's cervix, and into body cavities, such a patient's uterus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Meditrina, Inc.
    Inventors: Csaba TRUCKAI, Britta Kotov, John H. Shadduck
  • WEARABLE LIGHT STIMULATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20220143420
    Abstract: Light stimulation systems and methods for elevating testosterone levels in male patients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Kemeny Healthcare Inc.
    Inventors: Csaba TRUCKAI, John H. SHADDUCK, Akos TOTH
  • Tissue extraction devices and methods
    Patent number: 11324546
    Abstract: Tissue may be cut and extracted from an interior location in a patient's body using a probe or tool which both effects cutting and causes vaporization of a liquid or other fluid to propel the cut tissue through an extraction lumen of the cutting device. The cutting may be achieved using an electrosurgical electrode assembly, including a first electrode on a cutting member and a second electrode within a cutting probe or tool. Thus, over a first cutting portion, radio frequency current may help cut the tissue and over a second or over transition region, the RF current may initiate vaporization of the fluid or other liquid to propel the tissue from the cutting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: MINERVA SURGICAL, INC.
    Inventors: John H. Shadduck, Aaron Germain, Csaba Truckai, Kyle Klein, Michael D. Walker
  • TISSUE EXTRACTION DEVICES AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20220125505
    Abstract: The tissue cutting device comprises an elongated assembly including both an outer sleeve and an inner sleeve. The outer sleeve has a tissue-receiving window, and the inner sleeve has a distal end which cuts tissue as the inner sleeve is advanced past the window. The tissue is received into a lumen of the inner sleeve, and the inner sleeve lumen is typically enlarged in a proximal direction to reduce the tendency of resected tissue to lodge therein. The tissue displacement member is optionally provided at a distal end of the outer sleeve to further aid in dislodging tissue which becomes captured in a distal end of the inner sleeve of the lumen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: MINERVA SURGICAL, INC.
    Inventors: Aaron Germain, Kyle Klein, Benedek Orczy-Timko, John H. Shadduck, Michael D. Walker, Csaba Truckai, Balazs Lesko
  • Surgical devices and methods
    Patent number: 11272835
    Abstract: A medical introducer includes an elongated tubular member having a proximal end, a distal portion, and a central lumen extending from the proximal end to a distal port in the distal portion. A frame structure is coupled to the distal portion of the elongated tubular member, where frame structure supports the distal portion of the elongated tubular member in a tapered shape and alternatively in a non-tapered shape. The elongated tubular member may include a rigid outer tube and a rigid inner tube carried in an interior lumen of the outer tube. The distal portion is typically a reinforced elastomeric tubular extension of the outer tube, and the reinforced elastomeric tubular extension may have a conical shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Corinth MedTech, Inc.
    Inventors: George Chao-chih Hsu, Csaba Truckai
  • Laparoscopic device
    Patent number: 11259787
    Abstract: A medical instrument includes a tubular cutter extending along an axis and having a windowed outer sleeve and a moveable inner cutting sleeve. An ultrasound transducer is operatively coupled to the inner cutting sleeve in order to induce motion in the inner cutting sleeve to enhance cutting or resection of tissue by the inner cutting sleeve as it is reciprocated or otherwise moved past the cutting window. The instrument typically will include a motor drive configured to reciprocate and/or rotate the inner cutting sleeve relative to the windowed outer sleeve, usually at a reciprocation rate between 1 and 10 Hz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hermes Innovations LLC
    Inventor: Csaba Truckai
  • Endoscope and method of use
    Patent number: 11259695
    Abstract: Endoscopes and methods of their use, where the endoscopes provide a low profile or cross-section which facilitates introduction through small body passages, such as patient's cervix, and into body cavities, such a patient's uterus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Meditrina, Inc.
    Inventors: Csaba Truckai, Britta Kotov, John H. Shadduck
  • SURGICAL INSTRUMENT AND METHOD OF USE
    Publication number: 20220047294
    Abstract: Devices and methods for resecting tissue from the interior of a patient's body with a motor-driven rotating tubular cutter and multiple cutting windows located at a working end of the resecting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: Meditrina, inc.
    Inventors: Tamas J. TRUCKAI, Csaba TRUCKAI
  • ENDOSCOPE AND METHOD OF USE
    Publication number: 20220022740
    Abstract: Endoscopes and methods of their use, where the endoscopes provide a low profile or cross-section which facilitates introduction through small body passages, such as patient's cervix, and into body cavities, such a patient's uterus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: Meditrina, Inc.
    Inventors: Csaba TRUCKAI, Britta KOTOV, John H. SHADDUCK
  • ENDOSCOPE AND METHOD OF USE
    Publication number: 20220015620
    Abstract: Endoscopes include a shaft having a diameter extending about a longitudinal axis to a distal housing. An image sensor is carried by the distal housing, and a channel extends through the shaft and distal housing. A distal portion of the channel is adjustable or curved to accommodate introduction of a tool while maintaining a reduced shaft diameter. In some embodiments, a diagonal dimension of the image sensor when combined with a channel diameter is greater than a shaft diameter. In some embodiments, the distal housing is flexible to accommodate passage of a straight tool through a curved distal portion of a working channel. In some embodiments, a curved distal portion of a working channel may be reoriented to deflect a flexible tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Meditrina, Inc.
    Inventors: Csaba Truckai, Daniel Truckai, Khoi Le, Kevin Moss, Britta Nelson, Nicholas Landgraf
  • Tissue extraction devices and methods
    Patent number: 11224479
    Abstract: The tissue cutting device comprises an elongated assembly including both an outer sleeve and an inner sleeve. The outer sleeve has a tissue-receiving window, and the inner sleeve has a distal end which cuts tissue as the inner sleeve is advanced past the window. The tissue is received into a lumen of the inner sleeve, and the inner sleeve lumen is typically enlarged in a proximal direction to reduce the tendency of resected tissue to lodge therein. The tissue displacement member is optionally provided at a distal end of the outer sleeve to further aid in dislodging tissue which becomes captured in a distal end of the inner sleeve of the lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: MINERVA SURGICAL, INC.
    Inventors: Aaron Germain, Kyle Klein, Benedek Orczy-Timko, John H. Shadduck, Michael D. Walker, Csaba Truckai, Balazs Lesko
  • ENDOSCOPE AND METHOD OF USE
    Publication number: 20210401275
    Abstract: An endoscope includes a shaft having proximal and distal ends and a longitudinal axis therebetween. A handle is coupled to the proximal end of the shaft, and an image sensor is carried on the distal end of the shaft. A channel extends through at least a distal shaft portion and has a channel diameter, and a section of the channel is re-configurable between a constricted shape and a non-constricted shape to accommodate tools introduced therethrough. The combined diagonal dimension and channel diameter is usually greater than the outer shaft diameter. The image sensor may be connected to a connector on the housing by a first slack flex circuit and a lights source on the shaft may be connected to a connector on the housing by a second slack flex circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Meditrina, Inc.
    Inventors: Akos TOTH, Eugene Skalnyi, John H. Shadduck, Csaba Truckai
  • Methods for evaluating the integrity of a uterine cavity
    Patent number: 11191588
    Abstract: Methods, systems and devices for evaluating the integrity of a uterine cavity. A method comprises introducing transcervically a probe into a patient's uterine cavity, providing a flow of a fluid (e.g., CO2) through the probe into the uterine cavity and monitoring the rate of the flow to characterize the uterine cavity as perforated or non-perforated based on a change in the flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Minerva Surgical, Inc.
    Inventors: Akos Toth, Robin Bek, Dominique Filloux, Tejas N. Mazmudar, Csaba Truckai
  • SYSTEM FOR TREATING PEYRONIES DISEASE
    Publication number: 20210369555
    Abstract: Systems and methods for treatment using acoustic shock waves within an enclosed negative pressure chamber to fragment or otherwise to modify plaque in a patient's penile shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Kemeny Healthcare Inc.
    Inventors: Csaba TRUCKAI, Akos TOTH
  • SYSTEMS FOR TREATING PEYRONIES DISEASE
    Publication number: 20210369552
    Abstract: Systems and methods for treating Peyronie's disease, including systems for generating acoustic shock waves within an enclosed negative pressure chamber to fragment or otherwise modify plaque in a patient's penile shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Csaba TRUCKAI, Akos TOTH