Patents by Inventor KEVIN L. HUDELSON

KEVIN L. HUDELSON 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).

  • Surgical stapler cartridge loading and unloading
    Patent number: 11109861
    Abstract: An exemplary surgical method includes possessing a loader that holds a curved-tip cartridge, and a surgical stapler that includes an anvil and channel at a distal end thereof; causing at least one of the loader and the channel to move toward the other; as a result of the causing, engaging the loader and the curved-tip cartridge with the channel; and causing at least one of the loader and the channel to move away from the other, such that the curved-tip cartridge remains engaged with the channel. That method further may include actuating the surgical stapler; grasping the unloader; sliding the unloader toward the channel; disengaging the curved-tip cartridge from the channel with the unloader; and withdrawing the unloader away from said channel, wherein the withdrawing causes the curved-tip cartridge to disengage from the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: AESCULAP AG
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Matthias, Kevin L. Hudelson, Nicholas J. Terzulli, Thomas J. Palermo, Julian N. Nikolchev
  • Surgical stapler cartridge loading and unloading
    Patent number: 10588634
    Abstract: An exemplary surgical method includes possessing a loader that holds a curved-tip cartridge, and a surgical stapler that includes an anvil and channel at a distal end thereof; causing at least one of the loader and the channel to move toward the other; as a result of the causing, engaging the loader and the curved-tip cartridge with the channel; and causing at least one of the loader and the channel to move away from the other, such that the curved-tip cartridge remains engaged with the channel. That method further may include actuating the surgical stapler; grasping the unloader; sliding the unloader toward the channel; disengaging the curved-tip cartridge from the channel with the unloader; and withdrawing the unloader away from said channel, wherein the withdrawing causes the curved-tip cartridge to disengage from the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Aesculap AG
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Matthias, Kevin L. Hudelson, Nicholas J. Terzulli, Thomas J. Palermo, Julian N. Nikolchev
  • SURGICAL STAPLER CARTRIDGE LOADING AND UNLOADING
    Publication number: 20190365383
    Abstract: An exemplary surgical method includes possessing a loader that holds a curved-tip cartridge, and a surgical stapler that includes an anvil and channel at a distal end thereof; causing at least one of the loader and the channel to move toward the other; as a result of the causing, engaging the loader and the curved-tip cartridge with the channel; and causing at least one of the loader and the channel to move away from the other, such that the curved-tip cartridge remains engaged with the channel. That method further may include actuating the surgical stapler; grasping the unloader; sliding the unloader toward the channel; disengaging the curved-tip cartridge from the channel with the unloader; and withdrawing the unloader away from said channel, wherein the withdrawing causes the curved-tip cartridge to disengage from the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: BENJAMIN J. MATTHIAS, KEVIN L. HUDELSON, NICHOLAS J. TERZULLI, THOMAS J. PALERMO, JULIAN N. NIKOLCHEV