Patents by Inventor Jacques Devierre

Jacques Devierre 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).

  • Endoscopic surgical access devices and methods of articulating an external accessory channel
    Patent number: 7566300
    Abstract: Devices and methods for detachably engaging an insertion section of an endoscope and selectively articulating an endoscopic surgical access channel are provided. A device comprises an articulating main body having a stationary first body, an articulatable second body, and coupler having a mounting member and an articulation link member configured to articulatively couple the second body to the first body. The stationary first body has a distal end, a proximal end, and a first longitudinal axis. The articulatable second body has a proximal opening and a distal opening defining an accessory channel member passageway, the distal opening having a second longitudinal axis oriented toward a space exterior to the first body distal end, wherein the second body longitudinal axis is capable of articulating relative to the first body longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: Wilson-Cook Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacques Devierre, Kenneth C. Kennedy, II
  • Endoscopic surgical access devices and methods of articulating an external accessory channel
    Publication number: 20050234297
    Abstract: Devices and methods for detachably engaging an insertion section of an endoscope and selectively articulating an endoscopic surgical access channel are provided. A device comprises an articulating main body having a stationary first body, an articulatable second body, and coupler having a mounting member and an articulation link member configured to articulatively couple the second body to the first body. The stationary first body has a distal end, a proximal end, and a first longitudinal axis. The articulatable second body has a proximal opening and a distal opening defining an accessory channel member passageway, the distal opening having a second longitudinal axis oriented toward a space exterior to the first body distal end, wherein the second body longitudinal axis is capable of articulating relative to the first body longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Jacques Devierre, Kenneth Kennedy