Patents by Inventor Jeffrey S. Melanson
Jeffrey S. Melanson 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).
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Patent number: 10194892Abstract: A medical instrument is provides that includes a handle, a shaft, and a tool insert. The tool insert is attachable to the shaft by a threaded connection which engages a slot connection and to the handle and by a retaining member for actuation of the tool.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2014Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Karl Storz Endovision, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey S. Melanson, Sabine Zahler
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Patent number: 9596980Abstract: An endoscopic surgery apparatus is provided, including a tubular member, a handle located on a proximal end of the tubular member, and one or more pivotable arms detachably connected to a distal end of the tubular member. The tubular member has channels along its longitudinal axis, wherein at least one of the channels is an optical channel and at least one other channel is an illumination channel. The arms have guiding channels adapted to receive surgical tools, which direct the surgical tools. The arms are interchangeable with other arms of different configurations. Also, said arms have an open and a closed position, such that when the arms are in the closed position an opening is defined allowing viewing of a surgical site via the optical channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2007Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Karl Storz Endovision, Inc.Inventors: Jacques Francois Bernard Marescaux, Jeffrey S. Melanson, Bernard Dallemagne, Joel Leroy, Didier Mutter, James P. Barry, Stefan Storz, Martin Leonhard
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Publication number: 20160106404Abstract: A medical instrument is provides that includes a handle, a shaft, and a tool insert. The tool insert is attachable to the shaft by a threaded connection which engages a slot connection and to the handle and by a retaining member for actuation of the tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2014Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventors: Jeffrey S. Melanson, Sabine Zahler
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Patent number: 9107572Abstract: A method of transluminal surgery is provided, which utilizes an endoscopic surgery apparatus having pivotable arms attached by hinges on its distal end. The arms are interchangeable with arms of various configurations. The method includes the steps of inserting an endoscopic surgery apparatus into a body cavity of a patient, making an incision in the body cavity wall to allow access to the patient's abdominal cavity, and further inserting the apparatus through the incision. Surgery is performed at the desired surgical site and the apparatus is withdrawn into the body cavity where the incision is closed. Finally, the apparatus is withdrawn from the patient's body.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2013Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: KARL STORZ ENDOVISION, INC.Inventors: Jacques Francois Bernard Marescaux, Jeffrey S. Melanson, Bernard Dallemagne, Joel Jules Louis Leroy, Didier Raoul Daniel Mutter, James P. Barry, Stefan Storz, Martin Leonhard
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Publication number: 20140046130Abstract: A method of transluminal surgery is provided, which utilizes an endoscopic surgery apparatus having pivotable arms attached by hinges on its distal end. The arms are interchangeable with arms of various configurations. The method includes the steps of inserting an endoscopic surgery apparatus into a body cavity of a patient, making an incision in the body cavity wall to allow access to the patient's abdominal cavity, and further inserting the apparatus through the incision. Surgery is performed at the desired surgical site and the apparatus is withdrawn into the body cavity where the incision is closed. Finally, the apparatus is withdrawn from the patient's body.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Inventors: Jacques Francois Bernard Marescaux, Jeffrey S. Melanson, Bernard Dallemagne, Joel Jules Louis Leroy, Didier Raoul Daniel Mutter, James P. Barry, Stefan Storz, Martin Leonhard
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Patent number: 8591399Abstract: A method of transluminal surgery is provided, which utilizes an endoscopic surgery apparatus having pivotable arms attached by hinges on its distal end. The arms are interchangeable with arms of various configurations. The method includes the steps of inserting an endoscopic surgery apparatus into a body cavity of a patient, making an incision in the body cavity wall to allow access to the patient's abdominal cavity, and further inserting the apparatus through the incision. Surgery is performed at the desired surgical site and the apparatus is withdrawn into the body cavity where the incision is closed. Finally, the apparatus is withdrawn from the patient's body.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Karl Storz Endovision, Inc.Inventors: Jacques Francois Bernard Marescaux, Jeffrey S. Melanson, Bernard Dallemagne, Joel Leroy, Didier Raoul Daniel Mutter, James P. Barry, Stefan Storz, Martin Leonhard
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Patent number: 8137263Abstract: An endoscopic surgical instrument is provided that includes a handle portion, an elongated middle portion, an articulating portion and a tool portion. The tool portion is steerable by control mechanisms disposed on the handle portion which are accessible to a single hand of a user of the endoscopic surgical instrument. The endoscopic surgical instrument is advantageously employed in a variety of endoscopic surgical techniques, including transgastric or transluminal surgery.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2007Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Karl Storz Endovision, Inc.Inventors: Jacques Francois Bernard Marescaux, Jeffrey S. Melanson, Bernard Dallemagne, Joel Leroy, Didier Raoul Daniel Mutter, James P. Barry, Stefan Storz, Martin Leonhard
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Publication number: 20100280323Abstract: A system for transmitting the light required for a medical device is disclosed generally comprising an endoscope body, a light guide for transmitting light from a light source to the instrument body, where the light guide includes a bundle of optical fibers having a tapered portion, and a ceramic housing disposed around at least part of the tapered portion of the bundle. In certain embodiments, the ceramic has a pigment for improving insulation. In some embodiments, the taper and ceramic housing are located in an endoscope handle, which may be coupled to the endoscope body via an input post, and in certain embodiments, the inner diameter of the ceramic housing has an increase substantially equal to the decrease of diameter of the taper.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2010Publication date: November 4, 2010Inventor: Jeffrey S. Melanson
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Patent number: 7824330Abstract: A system for transmitting the light required for a medical device is disclosed generally comprising an endoscope body, a light guide for transmitting light from a light source to the instrument body, where the light guide includes a bundle of optical fibers having a tapered portion, and a ceramic housing disposed around at least part of the tapered portion of the bundle. In certain embodiments, the ceramic has a pigment for improving insulation. In some embodiments, the taper and ceramic housing are located in an endoscope handle, which may be coupled to the endoscope body via an input post, and in certain embodiments, the inner diameter of the ceramic housing has an increase substantially equal to the decrease of diameter of the taper.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2005Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Karl Storz Endovision, Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey S. Melanson
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Publication number: 20090054733Abstract: An endoscopic surgical instrument is provided that includes a handle portion, an elongated middle portion, an articulating portion and a tool portion. The tool portion is steerable by control mechanisms disposed on the handle portion which are accessible to a single hand of a user of the endoscopic surgical instrument. The endoscopic surgical instrument is advantageously employed in a variety of endoscopic surgical techniques, including transgastric or transluminal surgery.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2007Publication date: February 26, 2009Inventors: Jacques Francois Bernard Marescaux, Jeffrey S. Melanson, Bernard Dallemagne, Joel Leroy, Didier Raoul Daniel Mutter, James P. Barry, Stefan Storz, Martin Leonhard
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Publication number: 20080269557Abstract: A method of transluminal surgery is provided, which utilizes an endoscopic surgery apparatus having pivotable arms attached by hinges on its distal end. The arms are interchangeable with arms of various configurations. The method includes the steps of inserting an endoscopic surgery apparatus into a body cavity of a patient, making an incision in the body cavity wall to allow access to the patient's abdominal cavity, and further inserting the apparatus through the incision. Surgery is performed at the desired surgical site and the apparatus is withdrawn into the body cavity where the incision is closed. Finally, the apparatus is withdrawn from the patient's body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2007Publication date: October 30, 2008Inventors: Jacques Francois Bernard Marescaux, Jeffrey S. Melanson, Bernard Dallemagne, Joel Leroy, Didier Raoul Daniel Mutter, James P. Barry, Stefan Storz, Martin Leonhard
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Publication number: 20080269562Abstract: An endoscopic surgery apparatus is provided, including a tubular member, a handle located on a proximal end of the tubular member, and one or more pivotable arms detachably connected to a distal end of the tubular member. The tubular member has channels along its longitudinal axis, wherein at least one of the channels is an optical channel and at least one other channel is an illumination channel. The arms have guiding channels adapted to receive surgical tools, which direct the surgical tools. The arms are interchangeable with other arms of different configurations. Also, said arms have an open and a closed position, such that when the arms are in the closed position an opening is defined allowing viewing of a surgical site via the optical channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2007Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicant: Karl Storz Endovision, Inc.Inventors: Jacques Francois Bernard Marescaux, Jeffrey S. Melanson, Bernard Dallemagne, Joel Leroy, Didier Mutter, James P. Barry, Stefan Storz, Martin Leonhard
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Patent number: 7217126Abstract: A hand-held dental mirror carrying a sharpening stone for a dental instrument such as a curette, comprising a shaft supporting a mirror, a hand grip coupled to the shaft, and a sharpening stone coupled to the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2005Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Inventors: Corey Sommers, Mimi Sommers, Randal B. Chinnock, Jeffrey S. Melanson
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Patent number: 7187442Abstract: A variably-polarizing optical probe assembly. The assembly includes an optical probe having one or more optical light delivery channels that emit incident light from the sample end of the probe toward a sample being investigated, and one or more optical light-receiving channels that receive incident light from the sample. A variably-polarizing substrate assembly is coupled to the sample end of the probe. The substrate assembly includes an optically transmitting substrate and one or more discrete polarizer areas on a face of the substrate, each such polarizer area defining a polarization orientation, with the polarizer areas together defining one or more different polarization orientations. The substrate assembly is arranged relative to the probe such that one polarizer area covers at least one light delivery channel and one polarizer area covers at least one light-receiving channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2004Date of Patent: March 6, 2007Assignee: Optimum Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Randal B. Chinnock, Jeffrey S. Melanson
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Patent number: 7130047Abstract: Methods of creating tooling designs for, and the production of, one or more polarizer groups on a workpiece. Each such group includes an optically transmitting substrate with one or more discrete polarizer pixels thereon. The polarizer groups are used with optical instruments having a number of optical channels. In the method, one or more physical characteristics of at least one optical channel of the optical instrument are measured. Based on the determined physical characteristics, one or more discrete polarizer groups to be created on the substrate are defined, by defining for each such group a location on the substrate for the group, the size, shape and location within the group of each polarizer pixel of the group, and the polarization orientation for each such polarizer pixel of the group. The area of each polarizer pixel is then filled with tooling information that will establish its polarization orientation.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2005Date of Patent: October 31, 2006Assignee: Optimum Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Randal B. Chinnock, Jeffrey S. Melanson
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Publication number: 20040115588Abstract: A hand-held dental mirror carrying a sharpening stone for a dental instrument such as a curette, comprising a shaft supporting a mirror, a hand grip coupled to the shaft, and a sharpening stone coupled to the shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2003Publication date: June 17, 2004Inventors: Corey Sommers, Mimi Sommers, Randal B. Chinnock, Jeffrey S. Melanson
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Patent number: D568993Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2007Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Jeffrey S. Melanson, James P. Barry
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Patent number: D569509Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2007Date of Patent: May 20, 2008Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Jeffrey S. Melanson, James P. Barry