Patents Issued in October 4, 2016
  • Patent number: 9456812
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for implanting a prosthesis into a heart of a mammal, such as a person. The disclosure includes a prosthesis that acts as a pressure vent between the left and right atria of the heart. The disclosure also includes a mounting tool for mounting the prosthesis onto a loading tool, the loading tool useful for loading the prosthesis onto a device for delivering the prosthesis into the patient's heart. Control devices and methods for using these devices are also disclosed. The intracardiac pressure vents disclosed allow sufficient flow from the left atrium to the right atrium to relieve elevated left atrial pressure and resulting patient symptoms. The devices also limit the amount of flow from the right atrium to the left atrium to minimize the potential for thrombi or other embolic material from entering arterial circulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Corvia Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew J. Finch, Edward McNamara
  • Patent number: 9456813
    Abstract: Described are devices, methods, and systems useful in the treatment of fistulae, and in certain embodiments those having openings extending into the alimentary canal, such as anorectal fistulae. Illustratively, an anorectal fistula can be treated by placing a volumetric construct within the primary opening of the fistula. In certain embodiments, the volumetric construct can include a rolled remodelable material processed to form a substantially unitary body. Advantageous such remodelable materials can include collagenous extracellular matrix materials, such as small intestine submucosa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Cook Biotech Incorporated
    Inventors: F. Joseph Obermiller, Michael C. Hiles, Matthew R. Graham
  • Patent number: 9456814
    Abstract: An anchor assembly configured to locate and anchor body tissue surrounding an opening in the body tissue. The anchor assembly can include a plurality of anchor elements. Each anchor element can include an elongate portion and an anchor portion extending from the elongate portion. The elongate portion can be configured to be manipulated by a user. The anchor portion can have a contracted configuration capable of passing through the opening in the body tissue and can have an expanded configuration capable of anchoring the body tissue surrounding the opening. The anchor portion and the elongate portion can be integrally formed from a single wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: ABBOTT CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Laveille Kao Voss, Kelly A. Pike, David A. Mackiewicz, Andrew Switky, Gina L. Romero, Jonathan I. Kaplan, Anthony P. Patron
  • Patent number: 9456815
    Abstract: An implantable graft, which may be inserted into a fistula tract to occlude the primary opening of the fistula, is provided. To prevent unintentional displacement of the graft or extrusion of the graft from the fistula of a patient, the graft may be provided with a cap that extends laterally from at least one end of the body of the graft, where the cap may be integral with the body of the graft, attachable to at least one end of the body of the graft, and/or moveable along the body of the graft. The graft may also have a tail that extends from one end of the body of the graft to assist in placement of the graft in a fistula tract. The graft may be an integral unit made of a single material, such as a heterograft material, or may include distinct components made of the same or different materials. Methods for closing a fistula tract are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignees: COOK MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC, COOK BIOTECH INCORPORATED
    Inventors: David N. Armstrong, Brian L. Bates, Mark W. Bleyer, F. Joseph Obermiller, Umesh H. Patel
  • Patent number: 9456816
    Abstract: The present invention relates a closure device implant for sealing an opening formed through biological tissue including a plug, a rigid wire including a plastically deformable portion configurable between an unrestrained position and a restrained position relative to the plug, wherein a distal end of the wire is substantially spherically shaped, and a footplate attached to the wire, wherein the footplate comprises an elongated plate portion including a wire channel. The present invention also relates to a closure device deployment device including an elongated housing, a sheath assembly connected to the housing, and at least two sliding members slidably connected to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Transluminal Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen M. Green, Brian Fairman, Matthew A. Keary
  • Patent number: 9456817
    Abstract: An expandable trial can include an inferior portion, a superior portion, and a middle expanding portion as well as load cells for monitoring the load on the trial. The trial may also include recesses on its lateral sides to provide spacing to accommodate a disc removal tool so tissue can be cleared monitoring load. In addition, neural foramen spacing can be monitoring to provide information about how much neural release has been achieved as the disc is cleaned and the spine is positioned and repositioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J O'Neil, Roman Lomeli, John Riley Hawkins, Christopher Ramsay, Zoher Bootwala, Jennifer DiPietro, John Griffin
  • Patent number: 9456818
    Abstract: A method for manipulating a suture is provided. The method includes protracting a snare from a body of a suture manipulation device through an opening in the body. The snare includes, at a distal end, a hook. The method further includes ensnaring a portion of the suture passed through tissue with the snare and securing the portion of the suture. The method further still further includes retracting the hook into a slot located distally in the body to prevent the snare from retracting into the body through the opening in the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Alexander Torrie
  • Patent number: 9456819
    Abstract: A biodegradable device for providing scaffolding for a trocar defect to promote healing. The device consists of an upper and lower scaffold, offset by a connector. The device is arranged so the distance between the lower surface of the upper scaffolding and upper surface of the lower scaffolding holds the fascia around the trocar defect while promoting tissue growth. The surfaces of the scaffolding in contact with the trocar defect are textured to maximize adherence to tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: LAP IQ, INC
    Inventors: Michael Sigmund Klein, Michael George Fourkas, Widya Mulyasasmita
  • Patent number: 9456820
    Abstract: A system and method for endoscopically forming an anastomosis between two naturally adjacent points in the digestive tract. The system and method utilizes elongate magnetic devices that, when connected across a tissue boundary, necrose tissue until an anastomosis forms and the devices are passed naturally. Despite the elongate shape of the devices, the resulting anastomosis is substantially round. As such, round anastomoses can be formed having increased diameters merely by increasing the lengths of the devices, obviating the need for wider endoscopes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Inventors: Michel Gagner, David J. Blaeser, Todd A. Krinke, Philip J. Haarstad
  • Patent number: 9456821
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present disclosure, an apparatus for forming an anastomosis between adjacent sections of tissue is provided. The apparatus includes a body portion; an actuation assembly operatively supported at a proximal end of the body portion; an anvil assembly movably mounted at the distal end of the body portion for movement toward and away from the body portion; an approximation assembly extending between the body portion and the anvil assembly for moving the anvil toward and away from the tubular body portion; a dispersion assembly operatively associated with the approximation assembly, the dispersion assembly including at least one angled surface defining at least one channel interposed between the anvil assembly and the body portion and being configured to dispense a fluid therefrom; and at least one conduit for conducting wound treatment material to the dispersion assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Michael J. Bettuchi, Christopher J. Criscuolo
  • Patent number: 9456822
    Abstract: Bleeding arising from the left atrial appendage (LAA) can have fatal consequences because it can result in cardiac tamponade. The present invention provides apparatuses and methods for treating and preventing bleeding arising from the LAA, at the pre-hemorrhage and post-hemorrhage stages. In particular, catheters having inflatable catheter balloons are advanced into the LAA and the inflatable catheter balloons are inflated in and around the LAA in a manner that occludes the LAA ostium and the LAA cavity. Additionally, electromagnetic coils are present within the inflatable catheter balloons to create electromagnetic forces that help to further occlude the LAA ostium firmly. When the catheter balloons are inflated, these electromagnetic coils also expand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Inventor: Subramaniam Chitoor Krishnan
  • Patent number: 9456823
    Abstract: Described herein are apparatus, compositions, systems and associated methods to occlude structures and malformations of the vasculature with radiopaque hydrogel filaments with delayed controlled rates of expansion. Further described is a device for implantation in an animal comprising a difunctional, low molecular weight ethylenically unsaturated shapeable macromer; an ethylenically unsaturated monomer; and a radiopaque element, wherein said device contains no support members. Methods of forming such devices are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Terumo Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Constant, Josh Garretson, Gregory M. Cruise
  • Patent number: 9456824
    Abstract: A ligation clip applier is provided. The clip applier includes: a pair of jaws; a distal clevis tube to which the jaws are pivotally mounted; a proximal clevis tube located behind the distal clevis tube, wherein the distal clevis tube and the proximal clevis tubes move axially with respect to each other; a clip lock actuator fixed to one of the proximal and distal clevis tubes; and a distal pushrod extending through the distal and proximal clevis tubes and forming a camming connection with the jaws configured to close and move the jaws toward a proximal direction toward the clip lock actuator when the distal pushrod is moved in the proximal direction. A method for applying a clip on a vessel is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: TELEFLEX MEDICAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Lynn Willett, Philip Schmidt, Dan Monahan, Adam Lehman, Leland Ray Adams, Paul Whiting, Salvatore Castro, Alan Bachman
  • Patent number: 9456825
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for endoscopically implanting a medical implant, including an anchor, within a body cavity such as adjacent the gastroesophageal junction in a human stomach. The system includes one or more anchors positionable within one or more openings formed in tissue within the body cavity, such as cutouts formed in plicated body tissue. Tools are disclosed for positioning the anchors within the openings, and for coupling a food restrictor to the anchors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Crews, Bretton Swope, Justen England
  • Patent number: 9456826
    Abstract: A tourniquet device includes a tourniquet strap having an outward facing surface and an inward facing surface, the outward facing surface being covered with a plurality of hook fasteners, the inward facing surface having a section that is provided with a plurality of loop fasteners, a first end and a second end, the first end comprising a buckle, the second end having a cavity, and a securement strap configured for storage within the cavity, the securement strap including a terminal end that includes a pull tab, the securement strap is configured to be selectively placed in a stored position and a deployed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Inventor: Carson Thomas Henderson
  • Patent number: 9456827
    Abstract: A trackable medical instrument for use in a computer assisted image guided surgery system having a digitizer for tracking the position of the instrument in three dimensional space and a display providing an indication of the position of the instrument with respect to images of a body part taken preoperatively, wherein the instrument comprises a tracking array located distally of a rotatable, axially fixed drive handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Grinberg, Michael J O'Neil
  • Patent number: 9456828
    Abstract: A medical instrument handle assembly, for holding a medical instrument configured for preparing a bone to receive an implant, includes: a housing including a housing pin; an elongate arm including a proximal end; a lever subassembly including a lever body and a lever latch, the lever body being pivotally connected to the proximal end of the elongate arm, the lever body and the lever latch being pivotally connected to one another and thereby being selectively positionable relative to one another between a first position and a second position, the first position being when the lever body and the lever latch are clamped about the housing pin, the second position being when the lever body and the lever latch are unclamped relative to the housing pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Symmetry Medical Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Guillaume Kerboul, Stuart Weekes, Jim Truscott
  • Patent number: 9456829
    Abstract: A device for modifying tissue in a spine may include: a shaft having a proximal portion and a distal portion, the distal portion having dimensions which allow it to be passed into an epidural space of the spine and between target and non-target tissues; at least one distal force application member extending from the distal portion of the shaft and configured to facilitate application of at least one of anchoring force and tensioning force to the shaft; at least one movable tissue modifying member coupled with the shaft at or near its distal portion; at least one drive member coupled with the at least one tissue modifying member to activate the at least one tissue modifying member; and at least one power transmission member coupled with the at least one drive member to deliver power to the at least one drive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Amendia, Inc.
    Inventors: Vahid Saadat, Jeffery L. Bleich, Kenneth J. Michlitsch, John E. Ashley
  • Patent number: 9456830
    Abstract: A bone graft delivery system can include an elongate tube, a handle having a trigger, and a tip. The trigger is actuated to deliver bone graft material through the tube. The tip has one or more openings to deliver the bone graft material to a desired location and includes a surface suitable to act as a rasp for decorticating bone. A method for delivering bone graft material to a desired surgical location includes providing a bone graft delivery device, positioning the device adjacent the surgical location, decorticating bone, and delivering bone graft material to the surgical location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Surgical Device Exchange, LLC
    Inventor: Travis Greenhalgh
  • Patent number: 9456833
    Abstract: An osteotomy method includes attaching a patient-specific osteotomy guide to a corresponding surface of a tibia of a patient and making an osteotomy at a patient-specific orientation through a resection slot of the osteotomy guide. The osteotomy guide is removed and first and second faces of the osteotomy are opened to form an implant insertion angle. The first and second faces of the osteotomy are secured at the implant insertion angle and an osteotomy implant having a patient-specific wedge angle that is smaller than the implant insertion angle is implanted. The first and second faces of the osteotomy are brought to the patient-specific wedge angle and in contact with the osteotomy implant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Biomet Sports Medicine, LLC
    Inventors: William Maxson, Kevin T. Stone, Andrew L. Pierce, Robert Metzger
  • Patent number: 9456834
    Abstract: A vascular device is provided that includes a frame attached to a distal end of a delivery wire. The frame includes a cylindrical body formed of a plurality of interconnecting members, the interconnecting members being configured to exert a first radial force against an inner wall of an anatomical lumen. The vascular device further includes a protector having a proximal end, a distal end, and a profile that tapers distally from a proximal cross-sectional dimension to a reduced distal cross-sectional dimension. The protector is coupled to a distal end of the frame via a plurality of connecting members, each of the members extending from a distal end of a corresponding interconnecting member and converging distally to form a taper. The connecting members are configured to exert a second radial force, less than the first radial force, against the inner wall of the lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventor: Chris Folk
  • Patent number: 9456835
    Abstract: Lithotripter apparatuses and methods are provided for selectively modifying an acoustic pressure field and can include a shock wave source operable to generate a shock wave having a substantially axisymmetric acoustic pressure field, an acoustic focusing member positioned between the shock wave source and a target, and an acoustic barrier positioned between the shock wave source and the acoustic focusing member. The acoustic barrier can be operable to selectively block a portion of the shock wave generated by the shock wave source such that the substantially axisymmetric pressure field is transformed into a modified acoustic pressure field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: DUKE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Pei Zhong, Walter Neal Simmons, Georgy N. Sankin, Nathan Smith, Franklin Hadley Cocks, Glenn M. Preminger
  • Patent number: 9456836
    Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure includes a neurostimulator delivery apparatus. The apparatus includes a handle portion, an elongate shaft extending from the handle portion, and a distal deployment portion. The distal deployment portion is configured to releasably mate with a neurostimulator. The neurostimulator is sized and configured for implantation into a craniofacial region of a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: AUTONOMIC TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Carl Lance Boling, Anthony V. Caparso, Ryan Powell, Jennifer Teng, Morgan Clyburn
  • Patent number: 9456837
    Abstract: A device and method for minimally invasive tendon sheath release is presented herein. The device and method enables a surgeon to cut (“open”) a pulley that is obstructing a nodule and keeping a tendon from sliding smoothly. A guide probe of the device is inserted through a small incision and is used to find the edge of the pulley. Once found, the probe is guided to an end of the pulley. Proper placement of the device may be confirmed through the use of ultrasound. After proper position is assured, a hemi-cannula may be moved over the guide probe to isolate the pulley from the surrounding tissue. A retractable cutting shaft is then used to sever the pulley. A dilation device may be inserted prior to the insertion of the spherical tipped guide probe to dilate the area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: SonicSurg Innovations, LLC
    Inventor: Brian Michael Jurbala
  • Patent number: 9456839
    Abstract: A surgical end effector includes a clevis having a first end to be supported by an elongated tube-like member and two jaws, each having a pivot portion and a working portion. The pivot portions are rotatably coupled to the clevis by two spaced apart pivots. The working portions may include a cutting edge that provide a shearing action as the first and second jaws rotate about their respective pivots. The pivot portion and the working portion of each jaw may be on opposite sides of a bisecting plane. A flexible cable or wire may be coupled to each jaw and extend through a guide way in the other jaw, between the first and second pivots, and through the first end of the clevis. One or more springs may urge the working portions together. A rocking pin pivotally supported by the clevis may constrain the jaws to have opposite motions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas G. Cooper
  • Patent number: 9456840
    Abstract: A surgical tool including an elongated housing having an outer diameter at a location adjacent the front end which can pass through a targeting tunnel of a targeting guide. The surgical tool also includes a first blade with a first cutting edge, a second blade with a second cutting edge, each blade being movably connected adjacent to a first end of an actuation mechanism in the elongated housing. The blades include an at-rest scissors position and a scalpel position. When in the at-rest position the width of the blades does not extend beyond an outer diameter of the elongated housing and when the blades are in a scalpel position, the blades extend beyond the outer diameter of the elongated housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Inventor: Herbert D. Huddleston
  • Patent number: 9456841
    Abstract: In a liquid ejection control device, an operation unit includes a momentum dial for inputting a momentum instructing value related to momentum of a pulsed liquid jet ejected from a liquid ejection device, and a repetitive frequency dial for inputting a repetitive frequency instructing value related to the number of times ejection of the pulsed liquid occurs per unit time. In addition, a controller includes a voltage magnitude setting section that sets voltage magnitude of the drive voltage waveform such that the momentum becomes the momentum instructing value, based on a rising index value related to rising of the drive voltage waveform and the repetitive frequency instructing value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junichi Karasawa
  • Patent number: 9456842
    Abstract: A recanalization catheter assembly for recanalization of an occluded blood vessel is disclosed. The recanalization catheter assembly includes an elongate shaft having a tubular portion, a guide member, and a rotary ablation tool. The tubular portion includes a distal opening, from where the rotary ablation tool extends distally. The guide member extends distal of the distal opening and includes a guidewire lumen to receive a guidewire therethrough. The guide member is configured to advance over the guidewire in a subintimal space between a first tissue layer and a second tissue layer of a wall of the blood vessel, while the rotary ablation tool is advanced in a true lumen of the blood vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Pu Zhou, Huisun Wang
  • Patent number: 9456843
    Abstract: A tissue-removing catheter for removing tissue from a body lumen includes a tissue-removing element. The tissue-removing element may be coupled to a first longitudinal portion of the catheter body. An angular-displacement sensor may be coupled to the catheter body for detecting an angular displacement of at least the first longitudinal portion of the catheter body relative to the rotational axis when the first longitudinal body portion is rotated about the rotational axis. The tissue-removing element may be rotatable about a rotational axis to adjust an angular tissue-removing position of the tissue-removing element relative to the body lumen when the catheter body is inserted in the body lumen. An angular-displacement sensor may be generally adjacent the tissue-removing element for detecting an angular displacement of the tissue-removing element relative to the body lumen when the tissue-removing element is rotated about the rotational axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Jason Kessler, Lucas Schneider
  • Patent number: 9456844
    Abstract: An atherectomy device has a drive circuit which rotates a direct-current motor. The drive circuit has a three-terminal regulator having an ADJ terminal. A partial pressure resistor is connected between the ADJ terminal and an output terminal of the three-terminal regulator. Moreover, one end of six variable resistors whose resistances are set to be different from each other is connected to the ADJ terminal. The other end of the six variable resistors is selectively connected to the negative electrode of a battery by a change-over switch which is a rotary switch having six contacts. When the variable resistors are switched by the change-over switch, the output current of the three-terminal regulator becomes large. Thus, the rotation speed of a cutter which is rotated by the direct-current motor becomes high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: NIPRO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Soeda, Katsuya Miyagawa, Yuuki Nishimura, Misa Kakinoki
  • Patent number: 9456845
    Abstract: Described is a needle assembly comprising a needle and a needle hub adapted to carry the needle. The needle hub includes a proximal portion adapted to engage a medicament delivery device having a first thread and a cover portion adapted to abut a distal surface of the delivery device. The proximal portion includes a second thread adapted to engage the first thread, and the second thread is offset from the cover portion by a first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Jugl, Axel Teucher
  • Patent number: 9456846
    Abstract: A directional sequential dilation system includes a dilation tube assembly having a plurality of cylindrical, nesting directional dilation tubes including an initial cylindrical dilation tube that provides a passage for neuro-monitoring. Subsequent cylindrical directional dilation tubes sequentially increase in size including the increase in diameter. Each tube is configured to nest onto a previous cylindrical directional dilation tube via an off-centered structure formed in each of the subsequent cylindrical directional dilation tubes. The off-centered cutouts allow the subsequent cylindrical dilation tubes to dilate the soft tissue while at the same time sequentially migrate the incision dilation in a particular direction and distance from the initial cylindrical dilation tube insertion point (i.e. the initial neuro-monitoring insertion point). The directional sequential dilation system is particularly useful in spinal surgery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Life Spine, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Predick
  • Patent number: 9456847
    Abstract: A medical device configured for assistance with the cervical cerclage procedure is provided. The medical device includes a barrier structure with a finger and a therebetween. A hub is fixed to a distal end of the catheter and defines an extension with a second void between an end surface of the hub and the extension. The barrier structure and the hub are releaseably attached with the extension disposed within the first void and the finger within the second void. A wire guide withdrawably extends through coaxial holes within the hub, extension, finger, and a portion of the barrier structure to fix the hub and barrier structure together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventors: John M. O'Brien, Matthew J. Terwiske, Justin D. Renfrow
  • Patent number: 9456848
    Abstract: A resilient external fixator between first and second bone portions includes a spring 11 of axis 12, a body 14, elements 15 for mounting the body to co-operate with the spring, a pin 16 fastened to the first bone and passing through the spring, a second body 22 including a base 122 and a projecting portion 44 that is secured to the base, one end 47 of the helical spring being mounted in co-operation about the projecting portion, and elements 24 for connecting the body with the bone portion O2 and the helical spring. The projecting portion presents a section that increases in continuous manner from its free end 48 until it reaches its end 46, the end 47 of the spring having an inside section that is greater than the section of the free end 48 and less than the cross-section of the end 46.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Inventor: Xavier Renard
  • Patent number: 9456849
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides various embodiments of an external fixation connection rod having articulatable joints that can be attached to external supports, such as rings. In some embodiments, the fixation connection rod includes a telescopic rod and connecting mechanisms for coupling the joints of the connection rod to the external supports. and the connecting mechanisms are operable to substantially lock the orientation of the joints. In some other embodiments, the connection rod includes a housing having parallel axial bores defined therethrough and sleeves slidably disposed in the axial bores. Also included in the present disclosure are methods of maintaining the orientation of first and second fixator rings for immobilizing bone segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
    Inventors: John David Ross, Mikhail L. Samchukov, Alexander M. Cherkashin, John G. Birch
  • Patent number: 9456850
    Abstract: An implant having a receiver that is adapted to receive a polyaxial screw in the bore and either an internal or external cap. The cap can be an external or internal cap and the implant further has at least one locking aid in the form of at least one of a tactile feedback, a visual feedback or an enhanced fixation between the cap and a rod that is received in the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: X-spine Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: David Louis Kirschman
  • Patent number: 9456851
    Abstract: A screw and rod fixation assembly includes a body member including a screw seat for seating a screw head therein and a rod seat for seating a rod therein. An adjustable locking ring applies a locking force against the screw head seated in the screw seat and a locking cap adjustably applies a locking force against a rod seated in the rod seat. The adjustable screw locking ring and locking cap function independent of each other. A method of fixing the rod to the screw includes the steps of inserting a screw head into a screw seat in one end of a body member and inserting a rod into a rod seat in a second end of a body member and selectively and independently adjusting a locking force on both the screw head and the rod within the screw seat and rod seat, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Intelligent Implant Systems, LLC
    Inventor: Marc Richelsoph
  • Patent number: 9456852
    Abstract: A pedicle screw implant construct kit, comprising at least one pedicle screw, at least one collar comprising a recess for receiving a rod, the collar configured to be coupled to a head of the pedicle screw, an elongated rod for connecting the collar to one more additional collars to couple between the pedicle screw and one or more additional screws, and a locking ring sized to be positioned over at least a distal portion of the collar to restrain relative movement of the screw head and rod by exerting radial compression force onto the collar. In some embodiments, the components of the kit are comprised of carbon reinforced composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Carbofix Orthopedics Ltd.
    Inventors: Mordechay Beyar, Oren Globerman
  • Patent number: 9456853
    Abstract: A polyaxial bone screw assembly includes a threaded shank body having an upper portion, a receiver member or head, a retaining and articulating structure, and a pressure insert disposed between the shank upper portion and a rod. The receiver has a U-shaped cradle defining a channel for receiving a spinal fixation rod and a receiver cavity. The retaining and articulating structure attaches to the shank and rotates with the shank in the cavity during positioning. The pressure insert presses upon the shank upper portion and not the retaining and articulating structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Inventor: Roger P. Jackson
  • Patent number: 9456854
    Abstract: A modular system for fixation of a spinous process includes at least one pair of blocks shaped so as to engage a particular segment of the spinous process and arranged on opposing sides of the spinous process. Each block has a surface facing the portion of the spinous process to be engaged, the surface having an array of sharp spikes to penetrate the spinous process when so engaged. Two rods arranged parallel to the spinous process are provided to connect the at least one pair of blocks and therefore stabilize multiple segments of the spinous process. Each block includes an aperture within a central portion of the block and shaped so as to slidably receive one of the rods. Set screws are provided so as to securely position the block along the length of the rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Inventor: N. Garrett Powell
  • Patent number: 9456855
    Abstract: Devices and methods for placing an implant between two bone portions are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprises disposing a portion of a flexible member through a first bone portion, through an aperture in a trial implant, and through a second bone portion. The trial implant can be withdrawn to enable an implant to be coupled to the flexible member. The method includes applying tension to the flexible member to urge the implant into the space between two bone portions. In some embodiments, the two bone portions are facets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Spinal Elements, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Blain, Gregory Martin, Charles C. Newton, Hyun Bae
  • Patent number: 9456856
    Abstract: An intrabody implant disclosed and methods of use are disclosed. The implant has an inclined surface, forming a wedge shape having an acute angle adapted to be placed between at least 2 separated portions of a single bony structure (such as a vertebral body). In some embodiments, the implant may be used to support portions of a vertebral body that have been separated surgically as part of a pedicle subtraction osteotomy and to orient the portions at a more predictable lordotic angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc.
    Inventor: Rodney Ballard
  • Patent number: 9456857
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for the strictly limited flexible stabilization of long bone fractures, said apparatus incorporating a stabilization element configured to be a helical rod that may be introduced into the cavity of a long bone and that comprises a fixation device at one end at least. In accordance with the invention there is provided that the helical rod comprises, beside a very high vertical spring rate, a bending spring rate that is reduced to the “physiological” level as compared to a marrow nail so that, once placed in the bone, minimal healing-promoting movements are being stimulated. It is further preferred that the helical rod has a normalized, uniformly configured head that is independent of the variable outer diameter of the helical rod, which is adapted to the respective bone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: H&R SPECIAL SPRINGS L.P.
    Inventor: Reiner Labitzke
  • Patent number: 9456858
    Abstract: Systems for trauma and/or joint fusion implants and instruments include transarticular screw and intra-articular washer, polyaxial screw and plate, single- and multi-level polyaxial bone clamps, and minimally invasive adaptations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: OsteoMed, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas E. Schmierer, Charles R. Forton, Victor Zaporojan, Marc C. Yap
  • Patent number: 9456859
    Abstract: A polyaxial pedicle screw includes a threaded shaft portion for anchoring the pedicle screw in a vertebra, the pedicle screw having one axial end provided with a shaft head which is coupled to a mounting sleeve for a longitudinal beam in a rotatable and/or pivotable manner, including a fixing device for the selective positional fixation of the mounting sleeve with respect to the shaft portion. The fixing device includes a locking element as well as a counterforce part which is formed so as to be separate from the pedicle screw and counteracts the holding force of the locking element, preferably a grub screw or threaded nut, and is designed and/or retained in such a manner that the holding force of the locking element can be selectively released by means of the counterforce part, viz. is without any effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Aesculap AG
    Inventor: Andrea Peukert
  • Patent number: 9456860
    Abstract: Provided is a flowable bioresorbable tissue dressing comprising a gas-forming porogen and a gel or gel-forming solution. Also provided is kits for preparing the above-described tissue dressing. Further provided are methods of treating a tissue site of a mammal with the above dressing. Also provided is a reduced pressure delivery system for applying a reduced pressure tissue treatment to a tissue site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: KCI Licensing, Inc.
    Inventor: Archel Ambrosio
  • Patent number: 9456861
    Abstract: A dispensing assembly includes a syringe body having a barrel and a dispensing tip. The dispensing assembly further includes a mixing and plunging assembly configured for coupling with the syringe body and comprising a mixer and a plunger. The mixer is configured for mixing material in the barrel and has a rod and a mixing element removably connected with the rod. The plunger is configured to dispense material from the barrel through the dispensing tip. Also, the rod is configured to be detached from the mixing element and used to push material out of the dispensing tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin B. Anderson, Kevin C. Geppert, Jon E. Hoogenakker, Huadong Lou, Zachary Rzeszutek, Mark Stevenson
  • Patent number: 9456862
    Abstract: An electrosurgical generator includes an electrosurgical energy output configured to deliver electrosurgical energy to a bipolar end effector assembly in a conductive fluid environment for treating tissue. A controller having a processor is configured to control a waveform of the electrosurgical energy such that the waveform oscillates between a cut phase for initiating and sustaining tissue cutting, wherein the waveform includes a cut energy greater than the energy needed to create and sustain arcing, and a hemostasis phase, for desiccating/coagulating tissue, wherein the waveform includes a hemostasis energy less than the energy needed to sustain arcing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventors: Arlen K. Ward, Joe D. Sartor, Robert H. Wham
  • Patent number: 9456863
    Abstract: A surgical instrument includes a housing and an elongated shaft operably coupled to an actuating mechanism moveable between an actuated position and an unactuated position. An end effector includes a pair of opposing first and second jaw members and is adapted to connect to a source of electrosurgical energy. A switch is moveable between an activated position to initiate delivery of electrosurgical energy to the end effector and a deactivated position to terminate delivery of electrosurgical energy to the end effector. A switch activation member is configured to move the switch between an activated position and a deactivated position. A switch control member is configured to maintain the switch in the activated position during at least partial movement of the actuating mechanism from the actuated position to the unactuated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventor: Tony Moua
  • Patent number: 9456864
    Abstract: An end effector for use with a surgical instrument is disclosed. The end effector comprises a first jaw, a second jaw, wherein the first jaw is movable relative to the second jaw to transition the end effector between an open configuration and an approximated configuration to clamp tissue between the first jaw and the second jaw, and a camming assembly. The camming assembly comprises a first camming member comprising a first distal camming portion, a first proximal camming portion, and a first flexible portion extending between the first distal camming portion and the first proximal camming portion. The camming assembly further comprises a second camming member and a connector at least partially disposed between the first camming member and the second camming member, wherein the camming assembly is movable relative to the end effector to transition the end effector to the approximated configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, LLC
    Inventors: David A. Witt, Zhifan F. Huang, Timothy G. Dietz, Raymond M. Banks, Jeffrey L. Aldridge, Steve G. Bernath, David K. Norvell, Patrick A. Weizman, Jason L. Harris