Patents by Inventor Ofek Levin
Ofek Levin 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: 11779371Abstract: Surgical delivery devices of the invention have a delivery shaft extending from a handle, with a deformable member such as a plate or a leaf at a distal portion of the shaft with a surface carrying an implant for orthopedic surgery. A trigger or lever on the device positions the deformable member between a first cylindrical configuration that can pass through a cannula used in arthroscopic surgery and a second, substantially flat configuration useful to place the implant on tissue during the arthroscopic surgery. Preferably the trigger may be operated to hold the deformable plate or leaf in any of a continuum of positions between the first cylindrical configuration and the second, substantially flat configuration.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2023Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Expand Medical Ltd.Inventors: Arie Levy, Ofek Levin
-
Publication number: 20230225726Abstract: The invention provides a device for delivering surgical sutures. Significantly, the device is capable of delivering sutures of any size stitch width or stitch length. For minimally invasive surgeries such as laparoscopic surgery or endoscopic surgery, the device allows for delivering sutures of a stitch width and depth that is not constrained by the diameter of the shaft of the instrument. Further, the device provides flexibility that improves the maneuverability and degrees of freedom in the range of motion in difficult-to-reach surgical sites. For example, devices of the invention provide for delivering sutures at an angle substantially offset from the axis of the instrument. This flexibility contributes to providing more secure sutures at a range of challenging surgical sites.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Ofek Levin, Arie Levy, Lena Levin, Tom Assaf
-
Publication number: 20220096075Abstract: Devices and methods for delivering surgical fasteners to a controlled, specific depth in tissue and locking the fasteners closed to provide a secure and reliable attachment. Devices includes a body with a handle with a trigger extending therefrom; a shaft extending from the body; a delivery tip at a distal end of the shaft; a driver member disposed within the shaft; and a fastener with no points, barbs, or sharp edges held at the delivery tip. The fastener is inserted into a fixed depth and locks into a closed loop.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: Via Surgical LTDInventors: Ofek LEVIN, Arie LEVY, Lena LEVIN
-
Publication number: 20210267590Abstract: The invention provides a fastening device for laparoscopic hernia repair. The coordinated operation of two insertion members stabilizes a fastener during closure and locking to ensure that the fastener is locked in the intended location before the device releases from the fastener. One of the insertion members includes a pair of prongs that exhibit a closed configuration when they are disposed in a recess at an end of the fastener. The fastener has a hook at one end and a loop at the other end. The insertion members push the fastener out from the device and through the tissue. A curvature in at least one of the insertion members pushes the hook through the loop all while the prongs are in the recess in the fastener, thereby stabilizing the fastener with respect to the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: Via Surgical LTDInventors: Arie LEVY, Yehonatan LEVIN, Lena LEVIN, Ofek LEVIN
-
Patent number: 10980625Abstract: The invention generally relates to devices for fastening a hernia mesh. The invention provides a surgical fastening device that includes a shaft with a fastener carrier disposed at least partially within the shaft, in which the carrier is configured to accept fasteners of a plurality of different sizes. Different sized fasteners can be preloaded in interchangeable carriers or even mixed together within a carrier in the fastening device. The device can deliver the fasteners to different depths in a patient's tissue.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2018Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Via Surgical LTDInventors: Arie Levy, Ofek Levin, Lena Levin
-
Patent number: 10945726Abstract: The invention provides a fastening device for laparoscopic hernia repair. The coordinated operation of two insertion members stabilizes a fastener during closure and locking to ensure that the fastener is locked in the intended location before the device releases from the fastener. One of the insertion members includes a pair of prongs that exhibit a closed configuration when they are disposed in a recess at an end of the fastener. The fastener has a hook at one end and a loop at the other end. The insertion members push the fastener out from the device and through the tissue. A curvature in at least one of the insertion members pushes the hook through the loop all while the prongs are in the recess in the fastener, thereby stabilizing the fastener with respect to the device.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Via Surgical LTDInventors: Arie Levy, Yehonatan Levin, Lena Levin, Ofek Levin
-
Publication number: 20200383683Abstract: The invention generally relates to devices and methods for suturing tissue. The invention provides methods and devices for suturing by pushing two ends of a suture through tissue from a proximal side of the tissue and fastening the two ends together on a distal side of the tissue through one operation of a trigger.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2020Publication date: December 10, 2020Applicant: Via Surgical LTDInventors: Ofek LEVIN, Arie LEVY, Lena LEVIN
-
Publication number: 20200315768Abstract: This present invention generally relates to devices and methods for repairing an aperture in a biological tissue. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a system for closing an aperture in a biological tissue including a handle, an elongate shaft connected to the handle, and a deployment scaffold connected to the shaft, in which the scaffold is configured to releasably retain a surgical implant and the scaffold is configured to deploy and attach the surgical implant to the biological tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Arie Levy, Ofek Levin, Lena Levin
-
Patent number: 10751043Abstract: The invention generally relates to devices and methods for suturing tissue. The invention provides methods and devices for suturing by pushing two ends of a suture through tissue from a proximal side of the tissue and fastening the two ends together on a distal side of the tissue through one operation of a trigger.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Via Surgical LTDInventors: Ofek Levin, Arie Levy, Lena Levin
-
Patent number: 10695155Abstract: This present invention generally relates to devices and methods for repairing an aperture in a biological tissue. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a system for closing an aperture in a biological tissue including a handle, an elongate shaft connected to the handle, and a deployment scaffold connected to the shaft, in which the scaffold is configured to releasably retain a surgical implant and the scaffold is configured to deploy and attach the surgical implant to the biological tissue.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2015Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Ofek Levin, Arie Levy, Lena Levin
-
Publication number: 20190029679Abstract: The invention provides a fastening device for laparoscopic hernia repair. The coordinated operation of two insertion members stabilizes a fastener during closure and locking to ensure that the fastener is locked in the intended location before the device releases from the fastener. One of the insertion members includes a pair of prongs that exhibit a closed configuration when they are disposed in a recess at an end of the fastener. The fastener has a hook at one end and a loop at the other end. The insertion members push the fastener out from the device and through the tissue. A curvature in at least one of the insertion members pushes the hook through the loop all while the prongs are in the recess in the fastener, thereby stabilizing the fastener with respect to the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Arie Levy, Yehonatan Levin, Lena Levin, Ofek Levin
-
Patent number: 10182898Abstract: An instrument for deploying a surgical implant includes a handle, an elongated shaft extending from the handle, and a frame arm. The frame arm includes a clip pair for releasably attaching the surgical implant to the frame arm. The clip pair includes first and second clips operably coupled by a spring member. The first and second clips are repositionable from a closed position to an open position. The spring member biases the first and second clips towards the closed position. A lock bar is coupled to the frame arm and translatable between an unlocked position and a locked position. In the locked position, the lock bar maintains the first and second clips in either the open or the closed position. When the lock bar is in the unlocked position, the first and second clips are freely rotatable between the open and closed positions.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Jason T. Iceman, Kevin Beaulieu, Erik Carlson, Ofek Levin, Arie Levy
-
Patent number: 10159554Abstract: A surgical device for deploying a surgical implant includes a proximal portion and a distal portion. The distal portion includes a frame arm. A spring clip system is coupled to the frame arm and includes a pair of clips and a spring member. The spring member is connected to each of the clips and biases the clips towards a closed position. In the closed position, the clips are configured to retain the implant in contact with the frame arm.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Jason T. Iceman, David Batty, Mitchell Palmer, Ofek Levin, Arie Levy
-
Publication number: 20180333246Abstract: This invention generally relates to a device and method for repairing biological tissue aperture. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a system for closing an aperture in a biological tissue that includes a handle, a shaft connected to the handle, and a deployment scaffold connected to the shaft, in which the scaffold is configured to releasably retain a surgical implant and the scaffold includes an open configuration and a closed configuration, the open configuration being substantially X-shaped.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Inventors: Ofek Levin, Arie Levy
-
Patent number: 10117648Abstract: The invention provides a fastening device for laparoscopic hernia repair. The coordinated operation of two insertion members stabilizes a fastener during closure and locking to ensure that the fastener is locked in the intended location before the device releases from the fastener. One of the insertion members includes a pair of prongs that exhibit a closed configuration when they are disposed in a recess at an end of the fastener. The fastener has a hook at one end and a loop at the other end. The insertion members push the fastener out from the device and through the tissue. A curvature in at least one of the insertion members pushes the hook through the loop all while the prongs are in the recess in the fastener, thereby stabilizing the fastener with respect to the device.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2016Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Via Surgical Ltd.Inventors: Arie Levy, Yehonatan Levin, Lena Levin, Ofek Levin
-
Publication number: 20180235605Abstract: The invention relates to tacking devices for use in minimally invasive surgery that have a quantity indicator on a distal end that can be seen through a scope and that show a number of fasteners remaining in the device. A surgeon can watch the delivery of fasteners while simultaneously seeing f a number of fasteners remaining. This allows a hernia mesh to be properly fixed into place without going astray during the delicate initial placement procedure and also for even spacing of the fasteners on the mesh. The patient's post-operative recovery progresses well, and excessive pain is avoided. Methods of the invention include viewing the surgical site via the scope while also viewing the indicator via the scope.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2018Publication date: August 23, 2018Inventors: Arie Levy, Lena Levin, Ofek Levin
-
Patent number: 10052126Abstract: This invention generally relates to a medical device assembly for facilitating a sealed working channel into a pressurized body cavity, and methods of use thereof, In certain embodiments, devices of the invention include a hollow body that is splittable along its length and being configured to move between an open configuration for operably coupling with a surgical instrument and a closed configuration, in which in the closed configuration, the device provides a seal that prevents gas leakage from an incision site of a body cavity while the instrument is in the body cavity.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Arie Levy, Ofek Levin
-
Patent number: 10028814Abstract: This invention generally relates to a device and method for repairing biological tissue aperture. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a system for closing an aperture in a biological tissue that includes a handle, a shaft connected to the handle, and a deployment scaffold connected to the shaft, in which the scaffold is configured to releasably retain a surgical implant and the scaffold includes an open configuration and a closed configuration, the open configuration being substantially X-shaped.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2011Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Ofek Levin, Arie Levy
-
Patent number: 9999424Abstract: The present invention generally relates to devices and methods for reversibly coupling an implant to a deployment device.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2010Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Ofek Levin, Arie Levy
-
Patent number: 9993245Abstract: The invention relates to tacking devices for use in minimally invasive surgery that have a quantity indicator on a distal end that can be seen through a scope and that show a number of fasteners remaining in the device. A surgeon can watch the delivery of fasteners while simultaneously seeing f a number of fasteners remaining. This allows a hernia mesh to be properly fixed into place without going astray during the delicate initial placement procedure and also for even spacing of the fasteners on the mesh. The patient's post-operative recovery progresses well, and excessive pain is avoided. Methods of the invention include viewing the surgical site via the scope while also viewing the indicator via the scope.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Via Surgical Ltd.Inventors: Arie Levy, Lena Levin, Ofek Levin