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).

  • METHODS FOR ADVANCING INVERTING MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY APPARATUSES IN THE VASCULATURE
    Publication number: 20170303939
    Abstract: Mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses (devices, systems, etc.) and methods for positioning them within a vessel and using them to remove a thrombus, e.g., clot, from within a vessel. In particular, described herein are methods of advancing an inverting tractor thrombectomy apparatus having a tractor comprising a flexible tube of material that inverts over itself as it rolls over a distal end opening of an elongate inversion support by extending the tractor region and/or a puller coupled to the tractor distally beyond the end of the catheter. Also described herein are power-driven mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: STRYKER CORPORATION
    Inventors: E. Skott Greenhalgh, Michael P. Wallace
  • Compliance control stitching in substrate materials
    Patent number: 9775700
    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: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: TELA Bio, Inc.
    Inventors: Skott Greenhalgh, John-Paul Romano
  • Expandable support device and method of use
    Patent number: 9770339
    Abstract: An expandable support device for tissue repair is disclosed. The device can be used to repair hard or soft tissue, such as bone or vertebral discs. The device can have multiple flat sides that remain flat during expansion. A method of repairing tissue is also disclosed. Devices and methods for adjusting (e.g., removing, repositioning, resizing) deployed orthopedic expandable support devices are also disclosed. The expandable support devices can be engaged by an engagement device. The engagement device can longitudinally expand the expandable support device. The expandable support device can be longitudinally expanded until the expandable support device is substantially in a pre-deployed configuration. The expandable support device can be then be physically translated and/or rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Stout Medical Group, L.P.
    Inventors: E. Skott Greenhalgh, John-Paul Romano, Michael P. Igoe, Robert A. Kiefer
  • Expandable Support Device and Method of Use
    Publication number: 20170216046
    Abstract: An implantable orthopedic support device and methods of using the device are disclosed. The device can have rigid structural components that can translate longitudinally with respect to each other, and in so doing can change the vertical height of the device. The structural components can be driven by a drivescrew mechanism to change the vertical height of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: E. Skott Greenhalgh, John-Paul Romano
  • EXPANDABLE SUPPORT DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE
    Publication number: 20170196613
    Abstract: An expandable support device for tissue repair is disclosed. The device can be used to repair hard or soft tissue, such as bone. The expandable support device can have interconnected struts. A method of repairing tissue is also disclosed. The expandable support device can be inserted into a damaged bone and radial expanded. The radial expansion of the expandable support device struts can cause the struts to cut mechanically support and/or the bone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: E. Skott GREENHALGH, John-Paul ROMANO
  • SUPPORT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR USE
    Publication number: 20170181865
    Abstract: Devices and methods for orthopedic support are disclosed. The device can have a first rigid section hingedly attached to a second rigid section. The device can be curved or rotated around obstructions along an access path to a target site. The device can be delivered to an intervertebral location in a patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: Flexmedex, LLC
    Inventors: E. Skott GREENHALGH, John-Paul ROMANO
  • FIXATION DEVICE AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20170165083
    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 vertebral body surfaces for support and/or fixation of either or both of the adjacent vertebrae is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: Stout Medical Group, L.P.
    Inventor: E. Skott GREENHALGH
  • FIXATION DEVICE AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20170119541
    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 vertebral body surfaces for support and/or fixation of either or both of the adjacent vertebrae is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Stout Medical Group, L.P.
    Inventor: E. Skott GREENHALGH
  • FIXATION DEVICE AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20170119540
    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 vertebral body surfaces for support and/or fixation of either or both of the adjacent vertebrae is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Stout Medical Group, L.P.
    Inventor: E. Skott GREENHALGH
  • Expandable support device and method of use
    Patent number: 9622876
    Abstract: An implantable orthopedic support device and methods of using the device are disclosed. The device can have rigid structural components that can translate longitudinally with respect to each other, and in so doing can change the vertical height of the device. The structural components can be driven by a drivescrew mechanism to change the vertical height of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Theken Spine, LLC
    Inventors: E. Skott Greenhalgh, John-Paul Romano
  • MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY APPARATUSES AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20170086864
    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: October 11, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: E. Skott GREENHALGH, Michael P. WALLACE
  • VASO-OCCLUSIVE DEVICES AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20170086851
    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: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: STRYKER EUROPEAN HOLDINGS I, LLC
    Inventors: Michael P. Wallace, E. Skott Greenhalgh
  • REINFORCED ORTHOPEDIC DEVICES AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20170079769
    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: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicant: Initium Medical, LLC
    Inventors: E. Skott GREENHALGH, Antony KOBLISH
  • SURGICAL ATTACHMENT DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170027678
    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: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: Tela Bio, Inc.
    Inventors: E. Skott GREENHALGH, John-Paul ROMANO
  • COMPLIANCE CONTROL STITCHING IN SUBSTRATE MATERIALS
    Publication number: 20170020648
    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: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Skott Greenhalgh, John-Paul Romano
  • CORNER-LOCK STITCH PATTERNS
    Publication number: 20170020647
    Abstract: Stitching patterns overlap to produce a corner-locked stitch pattern. The corner-locked stitch pattern includes one or more thread interlace points, and one or more overlays of threads from overlapping patterns. A network of corner-lock stitch patterns produces a mesh, which may be embroidered into a substrate, such as a medical textile or biotextile. Corner-lock stitch patterns resist puncture-induced and tension-induced deformation of mesh pores between corner-locked stitch patterns, and may be used to modulate compliance and enhance strength properties of a substrate into which they are sewn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Skott Greenhalgh, John-Paul Romano
  • COMPLIANCE CONTROL STITCHING IN SUBSTRATE MATERIALS
    Publication number: 20170020646
    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: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Skott Greenhalgh, John-Paul Romano
  • CORNER-LOCK STITCH PATTERNS
    Publication number: 20170000597
    Abstract: Stitching patterns overlap to produce a corner-locked stitch pattern. The corner-locked stitch pattern includes one or more thread interlace points, and one or more overlays of threads from overlapping patterns. A network of corner-lock stitch patterns produces a mesh, which may be embroidered into a substrate, such as a medical textile or biotextile. Corner-lock stitch patterns resist puncture-induced and tension-induced deformation of mesh pores between corner-locked stitch patterns, and may be used to modulate compliance and enhance strength properties of a substrate into which they are sewn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Skott Greenhalgh, John-Paul Romano
  • SUPPORT DEVICE AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20160374727
    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: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Flexmedex, LLC
    Inventors: E. Skott GREENHALGH, John-Paul ROMANO
  • SURGICAL ATTACHMENT DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160324618
    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: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: Tela Bio, Inc.
    Inventors: E. Skott GREENHALGH, John-Paul ROMANO