Patents by Inventor Skott Greenhalgh

Skott Greenhalgh 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).

  • Reinforced Orthopedic devices
    Patent number: 10675141
    Abstract: Implantable tensile load-bearing grafts having synthetic components stitched through biological components are disclosed. The synthetic components can be biodegradable and/or non-biodegradable and of differing tensile strengths from each other and the biological component. Methods of making the grafts are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Tela Bio, Inc
    Inventors: E. Skott Greenhalgh, Antony Koblish
  • CLOT-ENGULFING MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY APPARATUSES
    Publication number: 20200107842
    Abstract: Mechanical thrombectomy systems including an elongate catheter configured as an elongate inversion support, a flexible tractor configured to roll and invert over the distal end of the elongate inversion support, and a clot engaging member on the distal end of an elongate manipulator are described herein. These systems may capture a clot using the clot engaging member and draw the clot and clot engaging member and roll the flexible tractor into the catheter to remove the clot and clot engaging member from a vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: STRYKER CORPORATION
    Inventors: E. Skott Greenhalgh, Michael P. Wallace
  • Self-rolling thrombectomy apparatuses and methods
    Patent number: 10610245
    Abstract: Self-rolling mechanical atherectomy aka thrombectomy apparatuses for removing a clot from a vessel include a tractor tube portion that rolls and inverts over itself in a continuous motion, tractor-like, to draw material into the tractor tube, wherein the tractor tube rolls over itself without requiring any additional internal support at the distal-facing region of the tractor tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Michael P. Wallace, E. Skott Greenhalgh
  • LASER SLOTTED GRABBING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20200078045
    Abstract: Mechanical atherectomy and/or thrombectomy devices configured to remove obstructions (e.g., plaque material) of different consistencies and/or sizes from blood vessels. The devices may include a tractor comprising a flexible tube of material that inverts as it rolls over itself while being drawn into the open distal end of a catheter in a conveyor-like motion. The flexible tube can include features that facilitate engagement with the obstruction, enhance smooth tractor motion and/or promote movement control of the device within the blood vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: STRYKER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael P. WALLACE, E. Skott Greenhalgh
  • Hernia repair grafts having anti-adhesion barriers
    Patent number: 10561485
    Abstract: Materials for soft tissue repair, and in particular, material for hernia repair. These materials may be configured as an implant, such as a graft, that may be implanted into a patient in need thereof, such as a patient having a hernia or undergoing a hernia repair surgical procedure. These grafts may include a first layer comprising a substrate (e.g., mesh) and a second layer comprising a sheet of anti-adhesive material. The layers may be attached with a plurality of relatively small attachment sites that are separated by regions in which the two layers are not attached, to provide a highly compliant graft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: TELA Bio, Inc.
    Inventors: Skott Greenhalgh, John-Paul Romano, Travis Speicher
  • Pre-loaded inverting tractor thrombectomy apparatuses and methods
    Patent number: 10561431
    Abstract: Mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses including an inverting, rolling conveyor region (“tractor”) at the distal end that are configured to grab and remove thrombus material. In particular, described herein are mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses that are adapted to prevent premature deployment of the tractor, e.g., by including a tractor hold (e.g., a housing, a lock, a clamp, etc.) or the like to secure the outer end of the tractor against and/or relative to the elongate inversion support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: E. Skott Greenhalgh, Michael P. Wallace, Robert Garabedian
  • EXPANDABLE ATTACHMENT DEVICE AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20200015873
    Abstract: An attachment device with a radially expandable section is disclosed. The attachment device can have helical threads, for example, to facilitate screwing the attachment device into a bone. Methods of using the same are also disclosed. The attachment device can be positioned to radially expand the expandable section in cancellous bone substantially surrounded by cortical bone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: E. Skott GREENHALGH, John-Paul ROMANO, Michael P. IGOE, Robert A. KIEFER, Wade K. TREXLER
  • Inverting thrombectomy apparatuses and methods
    Patent number: 10517624
    Abstract: Rolling tractor tube mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses that may be deployed from out of a catheter in situ are described herein. These apparatuses may be delivered out of a catheter from a collapsed delivery configuration within the catheter to a deployed configuration out of the catheter, in which the same catheter is re-inserted between a tubular tractor and an elongate puller. In particular, any of these methods and apparatuses may be adapted to work with a tractor tube having an open end that is biased open, including using an annular bias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Michael P. Wallace, E. Skott Greenhalgh
  • Clot-engulfing mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses
    Patent number: 10512478
    Abstract: Mechanical thrombectomy systems including an elongate catheter configured as an elongate inversion support, a flexible tractor configured to roll and invert over the distal end of the elongate inversion support, and a clot engaging member on the distal end of an elongate manipulator are described herein. These systems may capture a clot using the clot engaging member and draw the clot and clot engaging member and roll the flexible tractor into the catheter to remove the clot and clot engaging member from a vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: E. Skott Greenhalgh, Michael P. Wallace
  • COMPLIANCE CONTROL STITCHING IN SUBSTRATE MATERIALS
    Publication number: 20190380822
    Abstract: Compliance control stitch patterns sewn or embroidered into biotextile or medical textile substrates impart reinforcing strength, and stretch resistance and control into such substrates. Compliance control stitch patterns may be customizable to particular patients, substrate implantation sites, particular degenerative or diseased conditions, or desired time frames. Substrates having compliance control stitch patterns sewn or embroidered into them may be used in tissue repair or tissue reconstruction applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Skott Greenhalgh, John-Paul Romano
  • ATTACHMENT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR USE
    Publication number: 20190374269
    Abstract: Attachment devices and methods of using the same are disclosed. The attachment devices can be longitudinally expandable and/or compressible. The attachment devices can have an increasable and/or decreasable length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: Stout Medical Group, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert A. KIEFER, E. Skott GREENHALGH
  • VASO-OCCLUSIVE DEVICES AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20190374228
    Abstract: Vaso-occlusive apparatuses, including implants, and methods of using them to treat aneurysms. For example, described herein are expandable vaso-occlusive implants that include one or more soft and expandable braided member coupled to a pushable member such as a coil that maybe inserted and retrieved from within an aneurism using a delivery catheter. In particular, the expandable implants described herein are configured to allow relatively soft and elongate implants to be pushed out of a cannula without binding up within the cannula.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: STRYKER EUROPEAN HOLDINGS I, LLC
    Inventors: Michael P. Wallace, E. Skott Greenhalgh
  • Surgical attachment device
    Patent number: 10500030
    Abstract: A hybrid medical device that can aid in reconstructive or augmentative surgery of the breast is disclosed. The device can utilize a suitable biological collagen tissue matrix combined with a synthetic material, for example, that can impart a high initial strength to the repair site while permitting proper healing and revitalization of the implanted device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Tela Bio, Inc
    Inventors: E. Skott Greenhalgh, John-Paul Romano
  • INVERTING THROMBECTOMY APPARATUSES AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20190343538
    Abstract: Inverting tube thrombectomy apparatus for removing clot that are configured to prevent compression of the apparatus that may separate the distal end of the apparatus from the clot and may make it difficult to advance the apparatus to engage with the clot, particularly in a tortious vessel. The apparatuses and methods of using them described herein may be adapted to prevent tension in the flexible tube that is rolling and inverting over the distal end of the inversion support catheter when capturing a clot. Also described herein are inverting tube thrombectomy apparatus that are configured to reload either automatically or manually within the vessel to capture additional clot material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Michael P. Wallace, E. Skott Greenhalgh
  • MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY APPARATUSES AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20190336148
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for mechanically removing objects from a body. In particular, described herein are thrombectomy methods and mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses for removal of blood clots from within a lumen of a blood vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: STRYKER CORPORATION
    Inventors: E. Skott Greenhalgh, Michael P. Wallace
  • Compliance control stitching in substrate materials
    Patent number: 10426587
    Abstract: Compliance control stitch patterns sewn or embroidered into biotextile or medical textile substrates impart reinforcing strength, and stretch resistance and control into such substrates. Compliance control stitch patterns may be customizable to particular patients, substrate implantation sites, particular degenerative or diseased conditions, or desired time frames. Substrates having compliance control stitch patterns sewn or embroidered into them may be used in tissue repair or tissue reconstruction applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: TELA Bio, Inc.
    Inventors: Skott Greenhalgh, John-Paul Romano
  • REINFORCED BIOLOGIC MATERIAL
    Publication number: 20190275207
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an implantable medical device comprising a composite graft material including a first biologic component, such as an acellular tissue matrix, and a second non-biologic component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Sangwook Park, Aaron Barere, Christopher T. Wagner, Robert Kiefer, E. Skott Greenhalgh
  • SUPPORT DEVICE AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20190254714
    Abstract: Devices and methods for orthopedic support are disclosed. The device can have a first rigid section hingedly attached to a second rigid section. A tunnel through the bone near the implantation target site can be created. The device can be inserted into and pass through and out of the tunnel to the target site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: Flexmedex, LLC
    Inventors: E. Skott GREENHALGH, John-Paul ROMANO
  • Vaso-occlusive devices and methods of use
    Patent number: 10383635
    Abstract: Vaso-occlusive apparatuses, including implants, and methods of using them to treat aneurysms. For example, described herein are expandable vaso-occlusive implants that include one or more soft and expandable braided member coupled to a pushable member such as a coil that maybe inserted and retrieved from within an aneurism using a delivery catheter. In particular, the expandable implants described herein are configured to allow relatively soft and elongate implants to be pushed out of a cannula without binding up within the cannula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: STRYKER EUROPEAN HOLDINGS I, LLC
    Inventors: Michael P. Wallace, E. Skott Greenhalgh
  • FIXATION DEVICE AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20190240043
    Abstract: An implantable orthopedic stability device is disclosed. The device can have a contracted and an expanded configuration. A method of using the device between adjacent facet surfaces for support and/or fixation of either or both of the adjacent vertebrae is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: Stout Medical Group, L.P.
    Inventor: E. Skott GREENHALGH