Patents by Inventor James E. Gharib

James E. Gharib 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).

  • Patent number: 11877860
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and related methods for performing neurophysiologic assessments during surgical procedures. A method includes the steps of delivering a first transcutaneous, trans-abdominal stimulation signal to a spinal nerve root superior to a surgical target site; and determining a first neuromuscular response data set, based on transmission of said first transcutaneous, trans-abdominal stimulation signal, of a muscle located inferior to said surgical target site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Nuvasive, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Gharib, Eric Finley, Adam Azzara, Dmitry Novikov, William Taylor
  • Publication number: 20230371876
    Abstract: A method for determining a lowest stimulation threshold current level in a group of channels of a neuromonitoring device. The method includes stimulating tissue at a current level from a predetermined range of current levels as a sequence of pulses delivered at a frequency. The stimulating includes increasing the current level of each pulse in the sequence of pulses from an immediately preceding pulse by a first current increment. The method includes determining that a first evocation pulse from the sequence of pulses evokes a first muscular response. The method includes stimulating the tissue with a second evocation pulse from the sequence of pulses to evoke a second muscular response. The stimulating includes decreasing the frequency of the delivery of each pulse in the sequence of pulses and increasing the current level of each pulse in the sequence of pulses from the immediately preceding pulse by a second current increment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Richard A. O'Brien, Gregg Johns, Robert SNOW, James E. Gharib
  • Patent number: 11793447
    Abstract: A system and methods for performing neurophysiologic assessments during surgery, such as assessing the health of the spinal cord via at least one of MEP and SSEP monitoring and assessing bone integrity, nerve proximity, neuromuscular pathway, and nerve pathology during spine surgery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: NuVasive, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Gharib, Allen Farquhar, Doug Layman
  • Patent number: 11712218
    Abstract: A system and related methods for performing nerve detection during surgical access using ultrasound testing during surgery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: NuVasive, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Gharib, Albert Pothier
  • Patent number: 11701047
    Abstract: A method for determining a lowest stimulation threshold current level in a group of channels of a neuromonitoring device. The method includes stimulating tissue at a current level from a predetermined range of current levels as a sequence of pulses delivered at a frequency. The stimulating includes increasing the current level of each pulse in the sequence of pulses from an immediately preceding pulse by a first current increment. The method includes determining that a first evocation pulse from the sequence of pulses evokes a first muscular response. The method includes stimulating the tissue with a second evocation pulse from the sequence of pulses to evoke a second muscular response. The stimulating includes decreasing the frequency of the delivery of each pulse in the sequence of pulses and increasing the current level of each pulse in the sequence of pulses from the immediately preceding pulse by a second current increment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Alphatec Spine, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard A. O'Brien, Gregg Johns, Robert Snow, James E. Gharib
  • Patent number: 11653894
    Abstract: A system and related methods for performing nerve detection during surgical access using ultrasound testing during surgery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: NuVasive, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Gharib, Albert Pothier
  • Patent number: 11617562
    Abstract: A system and related methods for performing nerve detection during surgical access using ultrasound testing during surgery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: NuVasive, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Gharib, Albert Pothier
  • Publication number: 20230000412
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and methods generally aimed at surgery. More particularly, the present invention is directed at a system and related methods for performing surgical procedures and assessments involving the use of neurophysiology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Richard W. Schermerhorn, Eric Finley, Adam Azzara, Dmitry Novikov, James E. Gharib
  • Patent number: 11540804
    Abstract: A system and related methods for performing nerve detection during surgical access using ultrasound testing during surgery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: NuVasive, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Gharib, Albert Pothier
  • Patent number: 11471086
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and methods generally aimed at surgery. More particularly, the present invention is directed at a system and related methods for performing surgical procedures and assessments involving the use of neurophysiology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: NuVasive, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard W. Schermerhorn, Eric Finley, Adam Azzara, Dmitry Novikov, James E. Gharib
  • Publication number: 20220265369
    Abstract: Methods are provided for planning, performing, and assessing of surgical correction to the spine during a spinal surgical procedure. These methods are implemented by a control unit through a GUI to digitize screw locations, digitize anatomical reference points, accept one or more correction inputs, and generate one or more rod solution outputs shaped to engage the screws at locations distinct from the originally digitized locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: NuVasive, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas SCHOLL, Robert E. ISAACS, Shannon WHITE, Albert POTHIER, Robert GERMAN, Eric FINLEY, James E. GHARIB, Mark PETERSON
  • Publication number: 20220265189
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and methods generally aimed at surgery. More particularly, the present invention is directed at a system and related methods for performing surgical procedures and assessments involving the use of neurophysiology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: James E. Gharib, Allen Farquhar, Doug Layman, Thomas Scholl, Albert Kim, Albert Pothier, Patrick Miles, Josef Gorek, Mark Peterson
  • Patent number: 11357579
    Abstract: Methods are provided for planning, performing, and assessing of surgical correction to the spine during a spinal surgical procedure. These methods are implemented by a control unit through a GUI to digitize screw locations, digitize anatomical reference points, accept one or more correction inputs, and generate one or more rod solution outputs shaped to engage the screws at locations distinct from the originally digitized locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: NuVasive, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Scholl, Robert E. Isaacs, Shannon White, Albert Pothier, Robert German, Eric Finley, James E. Gharib, Mark Peterson
  • Patent number: 11219437
    Abstract: A surgical access system including a tissue distraction assembly and a tissue retraction assembly, both of which may be equipped with one or more electrodes for use in detecting the existence of (and optionally the distance and/or direction to) neural structures before, during, and after the establishment of an operative corridor to a surgical target site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: NuVasive, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Miles, Scot Martinelli, Eric Finley, James E. Gharib, Allen Farquhar, Norbert F. Kaula, Jeffrey J. Blewett
  • Patent number: 11219440
    Abstract: A surgical access system including a tissue distraction assembly and a tissue retraction assembly, both of which may be equipped with one or more electrodes for use in detecting the existence of (and optionally the distance and/or direction to) neural structures before, during, and after the establishment of an operative corridor to a surgical target site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: NuVasive, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Miles, Scot Martinelli, Eric Finley, James E. Gharib, Allen Farquhar, Norbert F. Kaula, Jeffrey J. Blewett
  • Publication number: 20210267531
    Abstract: A system and methods for performing neurophysiologic assessments during surgery, such as assessing the health of the spinal cord via at least one of MEP and SSEP monitoring and assessing bone integrity, nerve proximity, neuromuscular pathway, and nerve pathology during spine surgery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: James E. Gharib, Allen Farquhar, Doug Layman
  • Publication number: 20210251557
    Abstract: A system for performing surgical procedures and assessments. The system includes the use of neurophysiology-based monitoring to determine nerve proximity and nerve direction to surgical instruments employed in accessing a surgical target site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Allen Farquhar, James E. Gharib, Norbert Kaula, Jeffrey J. Blewett
  • Publication number: 20210177391
    Abstract: A system for accessing a surgical target site and related methods, involving an initial distraction system for creating an initial distraction corridor, and an assembly capable of distracting from the initial distraction corridor to a secondary distraction corridor and thereafter sequentially receiving a plurality of retractor blades for retracting from the secondary distraction corridor to thereby create an operative corridor to the surgical target site, both of which may be equipped with one or more electrodes for use in detecting the existence of (and optionally the distance and/or direction to) neural structures before, during, and after the establishment of an operative corridor to a surgical target site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Patrick Miles, Scot Martinelli, Eric Finley, James E. Gharib, Allen Farquhar, Norbert F. Kaula, Jeffrey J. Blewett
  • Patent number: 11033218
    Abstract: A system and methods for performing neurophysiologic assessments during surgery, such as assessing the health of the spinal cord via at least one of MEP and SSEP monitoring and assessing bone integrity, nerve proximity, neuromuscular pathway, and nerve pathology during spine surgery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: NuVasive, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Gharib, Allen Farquhar, Doug Layman
  • Patent number: 10993650
    Abstract: A system performs surgical procedures and assessments. The system includes the use of neurophysiology-based monitoring to determine nerve proximity and nerve direction to surgical instruments employed in accessing a surgical target site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: NuVasive, Inc.
    Inventors: Allen Farquhar, James E. Gharib, Norbert Kaula, Jeffrey J. Blewett