Patents Issued in January 3, 2017
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Patent number: 9532802Abstract: Improved ear ventilation tubes and spring loaded insertion devices for use with the ventilation tubes whereby perforation and insertion steps take place substantially simultaneously with an aspiration step following.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: GYRUS ACMI, INC.Inventors: Gregory S. Konstorum, John S. Duran, Antonio E. Prats, Lawrence J. St. George
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Patent number: 9532803Abstract: A device includes a first end portion, a second end portion, an intermediate portion between the first end portion and the second end portion, and a graft material coupled to at least the intermediate portion. The first end portion has a first end diameter. The second end portion has a second end diameter larger than the first end diameter. The intermediate portion tapers between the first end portion and the second end portion. A method of diverting fluid flow from a first passage to a second passage comprising deploying the device in a third passage between the first passage and the second passage, expanding the first end portion against sidewalls of the first passage, and expanding the second end portion against sidewalls of the second passage.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2015Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: LimFlow GmbHInventors: Robert Julian Dickinson, Andrew Robert Pacey, Martin Terry Rothman
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Patent number: 9532804Abstract: A system for manipulating energy transferred by members defining a joint and a method of implantation includes a first attachment structure configured to be attached to a first member of the joint and a second attachment structure configured to be attached to a second member of the joint.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: MOXIMED, INC.Inventors: Anton G. Clifford, Josef L. Friedmann, Michael E. Landry, David Lowe, Joshua Makower, Mary O'Connell, Alan C. Regala, Michael Rode, Clinton N. Slone
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Patent number: 9532805Abstract: A clamping device for an external fixation system includes a post component having a yaw axis, a first clamp secured to the post component and rotatable about the yaw axis, and a second clamp secured to the post component and rotatable about the yaw axis relative to the first clamp. The device includes a tightening component configured in a manner that an action of tightening the tightening component simultaneously locks both the first and second clamps in a gripping arrangement and substantially eliminates their relative rotation about the yaw axis. Interdigitating components can be spaced apart by high spring rate biasing elements that so as to allow for smooth adjustment of the clamping device components relative to each other until the appropriate position is achieved and until after a sufficiently high clamping load has been applied.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Zimmer, Inc.Inventors: Michael W. Mullaney, Stephen T. Miller, William Brian Austin
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Patent number: 9532806Abstract: A woven retention device for interfacing with a bone surface includes interwoven filaments forming a tubular lattice with protuberances distributed on interior and exterior surfaces of the lattice at a predetermined spatial relationship. The protuberances are formed by intersecting interwoven filaments. The retention device receives and surrounds a fastener. In a first, relaxed state, the retention device has multiple combinations of filament cross-section geometries at the intersection points, and the multiple combinations of filament cross-section geometries form multiple protuberance thicknesses. In a second state when surrounding at least a portion of the fastener, the retention device distributes pressure from the fastener to multiple points of contact on the exterior surface of the retention device such that a spatial relationship of the protuberances changes as a function of bone density of the bone surface and as a function of an interfacing surface shape of the fastener.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2015Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: WOVEN ORTHOPEDIC TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventor: Christopher McDonnell
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Patent number: 9532807Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a spinal osteosynthesis system comprising a connector, a connector member, a ring, and a bone anchor. The connector has an upper part disposed opposite of a lower part along a central axis. The upper part has a locking element and the lower part has a curved interior surface. The connector member can extend through the upper part along an opening axis transverse to the central axis. The ring may define a solid of revolution about the central axis. At least a portion of the ring may be receivable in the lower part of the connector. The bone anchor may have a head curved for polyaxial orientation with respect to the central axis. The locking element may be advanced towards the lower part to place the head of the bone anchor in contact with the connecting member, the ring, and the connector.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Stryker European Holdings I, LLCInventor: Pierre Henri Saint-Martin
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Patent number: 9532808Abstract: The present invention relates to a connection element for a spine stabilization system comprises a first end for fixing to a first bone fixation device, a second end for fixing to a second bone fixation device and an intermediate portion arranged or formed between the two ends and defining a longitudinal axis. At least one of the two ends takes the form of a coupling element for fixing the connection element to a bone fixation device in at least one defined orientation relative to the longitudinal axis. The coupling element has a shape other than a circular cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Aesculap AGInventors: Beate Celmerowski, Sven Krueger, Jens Beger
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Patent number: 9532809Abstract: A polyaxial bone anchoring device includes a bone anchoring element having a shank and a head, a head receiving part having a first end, an open second end, and a hollow interior portion in communication with the open second end for receiving the head therein, the head receiving part being flexible for clamping the head, a locking ring configured to be mounted around the head receiving part and having a rod receiving portion, a cap configured to be connected to the head receiving part, and a locking element configured to extend from the cap to engage an inserted rod, wherein the head is pivotable in and the cap and the locking ring are rotatable relative to the head receiving part, and wherein when the locking element is tightened, an inserted rod and an angular position of the bone anchoring element are locked relative to the head receiving part.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2015Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Biedermann Technologies GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Lutz Biedermann, Wilfried Matthis, Bernd Fischer
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Patent number: 9532810Abstract: A polyaxial bone anchor including a housing and a bone screw. A bottom surface of the housing includes an aperture that defines an angulation limit of the bone screw for each azimuthal angle around a longitudinal axis of the housing. The aperture is V-shaped, with the V-shape having converging side walls that define a low-angulation direction near their intersection and a high-angulation direction opposite the low-angulation direction. In some cases, the angulation limit of the bone screw is generally constant over a range of azimuthal angles centered around the high-angulation direction. The housing may be modular, including tabs on one component that are plastically deformed to engage a lip on another component. During assembly, a mandrel advances longitudinally along a bore in the housing, and forces the tabs radially outward toward the lip to a radially outward plastically deformed state.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2016Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Zimmer Spine, Inc.Inventors: Hugh D Hestad, Jack A Dant, Eric J Lundequam, Eric P Jerke, Deborah Lynn Hoch
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Patent number: 9532811Abstract: The present invention is a spinal fixation device that includes an occipital rod having a first end and a second end, and a spinal rod extending from a connection housing having a first end and a second end. The first end of the spinal rod is integral with a portion of the connection housing and the connection housing is configured with an elongated opening, a rotating plug, and a locking mechanism. The elongated opening is configured for mating with the first end of the occipital plate and the locking mechanism is adapted to enable the occipital rod to be locked in a fixed position.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.Inventors: Michael Black, Michael Zentko
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Patent number: 9532812Abstract: An implantable spacer for placement between adjacent spinous processes in a spinal motion segment is provided. The spacer includes a body defining a longitudinal passageway. A first arm and a second arm are connected to the body. Each arm has a pair of extensions and a saddle defining a receiving portion configured for seating a spinous process of a scoliotic spine or a spine with misaligned spinous processes. Each arm has a proximal caming surface and is capable of rotation with respect to the body. An actuator assembly is disposed inside the longitudinal passageway and connected to the body. When advanced, a threaded shaft of the actuator assembly contacts the caming surfaces of arms to rotate them from an undeployed configuration to a deployed configuration. In the deployed configuration, the distracted adjacent spinous processes are seated in the superior and inferior arms of the spacer. Variations adapted for scoliotic curves are provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: VertiFlex, Inc.Inventors: Moti Altarac, Shawn Tebbe, Daniel H. Kim
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Patent number: 9532813Abstract: An anterior lumbar interbody graft (ALIG) inserter includes prongs at the tip of the inserter which can optionally grasp, and thus insert, anterior and anterior-lateral grafts.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2013Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: SPINAL U.S.A.Inventor: Pat Barrett
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Patent number: 9532814Abstract: Surgical instruments and devices including drivers, inserters, and reducers. The driver includes a ratcheting mechanism configured to provide uni-directional motion when engaged. The inserter includes a rack, pinion, and cam system designed to secure an implant and release an implant in-situ. The reducer includes a geared system for persuading together surgical components and aligning misaligned vertebrae.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.Inventor: Michael Harper
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Patent number: 9532815Abstract: A tool set for implanting a rod in a human spine in conjunction with bone screws includes a pair of end guide tools that receive opposite ends of the rod in channels and under manipulation by a surgeon facilitate transport of the rod toward the bone screws attached to the guide tools. Each end guide tool includes a laterally extending, rigid, rod holding structure located near a bottom surface thereof. For bone screw implantation, the end guide tools and intermediate guide tools are assembled with a driver. For reducing a rod into the bone screw, a rod pusher is deployed that is coaxial with a respective guide tool and includes an outer sleeve that abuts the rod as the sleeve is translated along the guide tool and toward the bone screw. A method utilizing the tool set allows a surgeon to percutaneously implant the bone screws and the rod in the patient.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Inventor: Roger P. Jackson
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Patent number: 9532816Abstract: Provided is a novel rod reducing device including a screw jack mechanism that is moveably engaged with an elongated grasping fork assembly, the screw jack mechanism having an elongated threaded portion, the elongated threaded portion being connected at its most distal end to a rod contact member, which is positioned in sliding circumferential contact with each of the two opposing elongated grasping members and the most proximal end of the elongated threaded portion terminating in a controlling member, which can be activated in a measured and controlled manner. A method of using the device is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2015Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: K2M, Inc.Inventors: Michael Barrus, Scott A. Jones
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Patent number: 9532817Abstract: An intramedullary nail has a scalloped compression slot so as to define a plurality of pockets and intersections between the pockets that are narrower than the pockets. Accordingly, a compression member can be inserted into a bone segment of a fractured bone and into the slot. The compression member can be wider than the intersections. A compression actuator can apply a force against the compression member that causes the compression member to translate across the intersections from pocket-to-pocket until the fracture has been approximated. Because the compression member is wider than the intersections, the compression slot retains the compression member and prevents distraction of the fracture.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventor: Tom Overes
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Patent number: 9532818Abstract: An orthopedic nail of generally rod-like shape having a through hole extending from a first side to a second side of the orthopedic nail and being adapted to receive a screw and/or a pin, a first end of the through hole at the first side defining a rim region, wherein at least one surface notch is provided in the rim region at and restricted to an outer circumferential surface of the orthopedic nail, the surface notch being arranged transverse to a nail axis of the orthopedic nail, a width (W) of the surface notch in the direction of the nail axis being smaller than a diameter of the through hole.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2010Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Zimmer GmbHInventors: Andreas E. Schwammberger, Jordan Velikov, Rolf Dittmann
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Patent number: 9532819Abstract: The present invention provides systems and methods for bone fixation and in particular, systems and methods for fusion of human cervical spine from the anterior aspect. To that end, some of the embodiments of the invention are directed to plate systems for aligning and maintaining adjacent cervical vertebrae in a selected spatial relationship during spinal fusion of such vertebrae.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2015Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Alphatec Spine, Inc.Inventor: Christopher M. Campbell
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Patent number: 9532820Abstract: A method for joining of biological elements is disclosed. A plate is placed over a first segment and a second segment. The plate is attached to the first segment and the second segment. A dowel channel is drilled thru a dowel hole of the plate. A dowel is inserted into the dowel channel, wherein the dowel crosses a joining plane of the first segment and the second segment. A locking screw is placed on a top side of the dowel to lock the dowel in place.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2015Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: NEXTREMITY SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Lon S. Weiner, John R. Pepper
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Patent number: 9532821Abstract: A bi-directional fixating transvertebral (BDFT) screw/cage apparatus is provided. The BDFT apparatus includes an intervertebral cage including a plurality of internal angled screw guides, a plurality of screw members, and a cage indentation adjacent to the screw guides that independently or supplemented by other screw locking mechanisms prevents the screw members from pulling out of the internal angled screw guides. The internal angled screw guides orient a first screw member superiorly and a second screw member inferiorly. The intervertebral cage is adapted for posterior lumbar intervertebral placement, anterior lumbar intervertebral placement, anterio-lateral thoracic intervertebral placement, or anterior cervical intervertebral placement.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2012Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Inventors: Nathan C. Moskowitz, Mosheh T. Moskowitz, Ahmnon D. Moskowitz, Pablo A. Valdivia Y. Alvarado
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Patent number: 9532822Abstract: A pedicle screw with reverse spiral cut that allows for increased loading on a bone and increased osteointegration through automatic and self-managed expansion after the bone screw is inserted into the bone. The bone screw may be a fixation device comprising an elongated body having proximal and distal ends, said elongated body including an outer surface adapted to penetrate and anchor within a bone, and a head affixed to the distal end of the elongated body and adapted to receive a drive component, wherein the outer surface of the elongated body comprises threads extending from the outer surface in a first direction, and further wherein at least a portion of the outer surface of the elongated body comprises a reverse spiral cut into the outer surface in a second direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2015Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: BLACKSTONE MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Samuel Fang, Francesco Larosa
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Patent number: 9532823Abstract: A system for loading plural cannulae with a substance that is to be injected into living tissue. This invention provides an efficient means of providing plural substance-filled cannulae for surgical procedures, such as vertebral augmentations. The system includes a mixing and delivery system, including a manifold. The manifold includes a housing with a plurality of channels that route the flow of the mixed substance from a single central channel to multiple sub-channels for the simultaneous filling of attached cannulae. The manifold also includes valves that regulate the flow of the substance out of the manifold. The open/closed states of these valves are inherently set as a function of the presence/absence of cannulae. A cartridge/plate releasably holds the multiple cannulae to the manifold. The release of the cartridge/plate results in the simultaneous release of the substance-filled cannulae from the manifold.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: STRYKER CORPORATIONInventors: Gabriel J. Harshman, David R. Boboltz, Ross D. Thelen
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Patent number: 9532824Abstract: A crimping tool for producing a polyaxial bone anchoring device (1, 1?) is provided. The crimping tool includes at least one tip holder having a crimping tip and an inclined passage and an actuating member having at least an inclined leg, wherein the inclination of the inclined passage corresponds to the inclination of the inclined leg.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2012Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Biedermann Technologies GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Lutz Biedermann, Gerhard Pohl
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Patent number: 9532825Abstract: Described herein are guiding instruments for use in surgical procedures involving the positioning of a bone plate. Furthermore methods for the manufacture of such instruments and methods for positioning a bone plate are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Materialise, NVInventor: Benjamin Geebelen
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Patent number: 9532826Abstract: A method for treating a sinus cavity is provided. The method includes the steps of inserting a plasma applicator into a sinus cavity defined in a bone mass, positioning the plasma applicator adjacent a tissue formation, generating a selectively reactive plasma effluent at the plasma applicator and directing the selectively reactive plasma effluent at the tissue formation. The selective nature of the reactive plasma enables treatment of specific targets inside the sinus while minimizing the effect on other tissues. Such treatment includes, but not limited to, sterilization of bacterial colonies, vaporization of unwanted tissues or foreign masses, stimulation of tissues by enriching the content of reactive oxygen and nitrous oxide pathways, and combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: COVIDIEN LPInventor: Joe D. Sartor
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Patent number: 9532827Abstract: A method and apparatus for operatively connecting a bipolar electrosurgical hand piece to a monopolar output of an electrosurgical unit wherein active components simulate expected impedance characteristics of monopolar return electrodes connected to a patient.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: NuOrtho Surgical Inc.Inventors: Roy E. Morgan, Wayne K. Auge, II
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Patent number: 9532828Abstract: A medical method, device, and system are provided, including advancing an ablation element of a medical device into contact with tissue to be treated, selecting a power level of energy to ablate the tissue, delivering energy at the selected power level to the ablation element, determining whether the ablation element is in continuous contact with the tissue, and reducing the selected power level when the ablation element ceases to be in continuous contact with the tissue.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2011Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Medtronic Ablation Frontiers LLCInventors: Catherine R. Condie, Marshall L. Sherman, Kathryn E. Kasischke, Timothy J. Corvi, Aaron R. Strunk
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Patent number: 9532829Abstract: An end effector assembly for a forceps includes jaws, a cutting assembly, and at least one cam assembly. At least one jaw is moveable relative to the other about a pivot between open and closed positions for grasping tissue. At least one jaw includes a control trough that extends therealong. The pivot has first and second pivot bosses defining a pivot hole therebetween. The cutting assembly includes a blade and blade control portion, and defines a longitudinal axis through the blade and the control portion. The control portion slidably translates through the pivot hole defined between the pivot bosses to allow selective advancement thereof through the trough. The blade is disposed distally of the pivot and extends farther from the axis than an outer surface of the control portion. The cam assembly is coupled to the moveable jaw and is actuatable to move the moveable jaw between the positions.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2012Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Covidien AGInventors: Derek Dee Deville, Matthew A. Palmer, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., Korey Kline, Sean McBrayer
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Patent number: 9532830Abstract: A catheter with a mechanism for omni-directional deflection of a catheter shaft includes a shaft assembly and a controller. The shaft assembly includes a first tubular component that has a preformed curvilinear distal section, a second, substantially straight tubular component with a main axis and an outer shaft. The first and second components are configured for slidable movement therebetween while preserving common rotation so that when the second component is axially moved in a distal direction, the second component deflects the preformed curvilinear section towards the main axis while orientation of the outer shaft is preserved. The controller is configured to effect relative axial movement between the first and second components as well as to effect rotation of the first and second components (and thus also of the preformed curvilinear distal section) without any rotation of the shaft relative to the handle.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division, Inc.Inventor: Troy T. Tegg
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Patent number: 9532831Abstract: Transducer-based systems and methods may be configured to display a graphical representation of a transducer-based device, the graphical representation including graphical elements corresponding to transducers of the transducer-based device, and also including between graphical elements respectively associated with a set of the transducers and respectively associated with a region of space between the transducers of the transducer-based device. Selection of graphical elements and/or between graphical elements can cause activation of the set of transducers associated with the selected elements. Transducer activation characteristics, such as initiation time, activation duration, activation sequence, and energy delivery characteristics, can vary based on numerous factors. Visual characteristics of graphical elements and between graphical elements can change based on an activation-status of the corresponding transducers.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: KARDIUM INC.Inventors: Daniel Martin Reinders, Daniel Robert Weinkam, Roxanne Wai Tak Louie, Danai Bisalputra
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Patent number: 9532832Abstract: A device for improving the cosmetic appearance of the skin is disclosed, wherein said device comprises RF generating means for generating N independent RF signals of predetermined waveforms, frequencies, amplitudes, and relative phases; control means for controlling the output of said RF generating means, said control means in communication with said RF generating means; N pairs of RF electrodes, each of said pairs in independent communication with said RF generating means, said RF electrodes configured to transmit RF energy to said skin; and an electrically insulating casing adapted to hold said RF electrodes such that said RF electrodes may be placed in simultaneous physical contact with said skin.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2012Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: VENUS CONCEPT LTD.Inventors: Oded Ron Edoute, Orit Ron Edoute, Vadim Polyakov, Almog Zahavi
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Patent number: 9532834Abstract: A device configured to cut hair using laser light includes a handle portion and a shaving portion. The handle portion includes a battery and a laser light source. The laser light source is coupled to and configured to receive power from the battery. The laser light source is also configured to generate laser light having a wavelength selected to target a predetermined chromophore to effectively cut a hair shaft. The shaving portion includes a support and a single fiber optic supported by the support. The fiber optic has a proximal end, a distal end, an outer wall, and a cutting region positioned towards the distal end and extending along a portion of the side wall. The fiber optic is positioned to receive the laser light from the laser light source at the proximal end, conduct the laser light from the proximal end toward the distal end, and emit the light out of the cutting region and toward hair when the cutting region is brought in contact with the hair.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2015Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Inventors: Morgan Lars Ake Gustavsson, Paul Binun
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Patent number: 9532835Abstract: The invention provides systems and method for the removal of diseased cells during surgery.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2015Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Lumicell, Inc.Inventor: W. David Lee
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Patent number: 9532836Abstract: The present invention regards a sterile workspace with removable layers for use on medical surfaces such as anesthesia workstations, as well as other surfaces. The assembly of the present invention generally includes a plurality of sterile workspaces, layered to form the assembly. Each workspace has a foam layer and a barrier layer. In some configurations, the workspace also has a tray, and the foam layer is secured to the top surface of the tray. The tray may have a raised border about its perimeter. In some configurations the foam layer has a non-porous bottom surface. The assembly may have a support surface under the bottom-most workspace layer, with an elastomer or adhesive affixed thereto to prevent the assembly from moving during use. The barrier layer is affixed to either the foam layer, or the tray (if present), and is removed to expose a sterile workspace when in use.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2015Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Inventor: Edgar Stuart Cornett
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Patent number: 9532837Abstract: The disclosure herein provides repositionable medical instrument support systems, devices, and methods. A repositionable medical instrument support system comprises a frame for rigidly connecting the system to a patient support, a ball and socket joint configured to provide three degrees of rotational freedom, a frame mounting arm configured to releasably mount the ball and socket joint to the frame, a sliding joint configured to provide one degree of translational freedom, a connecting arm configured to connect the sliding joint to the ball and socket joint, and a docking member configured to engage a medical instrument to support the medical instrument during a medical procedure.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2013Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Inventors: Jiwan Steven Singh, Jai Singh
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Patent number: 9532838Abstract: Methods and apparatus for enhancing surgical planning provide enhanced planning of entry port placement and/or robot position for laparoscopic, robotic, and other minimally invasive surgery. Various embodiments may be used in robotic surgery systems to identify advantageous entry ports for multiple robotic surgical tools into a patient to access a surgical site. Generally, data such as imaging data is processed and used to create a model of a surgical site, which can then be used to select advantageous entry port sites for two or more surgical tools based on multiple criteria. Advantageous robot positioning may also be determined, based on the entry port locations and other factors. Validation and simulation may then be provided to ensure feasibility of the selected port placements and/or robot positions. Such methods, apparatus, and systems may also be used in non-surgical contexts, such as for robotic port placement in munitions diffusion or hazardous waste handling.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Eve C. Coste-Maniere, Louai Adhami, Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, Alain Carpentier, Gary S. Guthart
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Patent number: 9532839Abstract: A surgical robot system includes a slave device having a surgical instrument; and a master device configured to transmit a control signal to the surgical instrument. The slave device includes a guide tube to which the surgical instrument is coupled; and a controller operating the surgical instrument in response to the control signal transmitted from the master device, and operate the guide tube so as to move the surgical instrument to a target position if the target position of the surgical instrument according to the control signal corresponds to a position out of a range of a current working space for the surgical instrument.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kee Hong Seo
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Patent number: 9532840Abstract: One exemplary user interface for a medical robotics system may include a control panel and one or more sliders that may be slidably carried by the control panel to actuate one or more motors for moving a surgical instrument of the medical robotics system. The sliders may be configured to actuate the motors to move the surgical instrument along a respective one of a plurality of degrees of freedom.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: HANSEN MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Serena H. Wong, Sean P. Walker, June Park, Richard Henderson
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Patent number: 9532841Abstract: Robotic, telerobotic, and/or telesurgical devices, systems, and methods take advantage of robotic structures and data to calculate changes in the focus of an image capture device in response to movement of the image capture device, a robotic end effector, or the like. As the size of an image of an object shown in the display device varies with changes in a separation distance between that object and the image capture device used to capture the image, a scale factor between a movement command input may be changed in response to moving an input device or a corresponding master/slave robotic movement command of the system. This may enhance the perceived correlation between the input commands and the robotic movements as they appear in the image presented to the system operator.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: John D. Stern, Robert G. Younge, David S. Gere, Gunter D. Niemeyer
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Patent number: 9532842Abstract: A medical positioning apparatus for positioning and holding an object, including: a telescopic member; a support member for receiving the object; a base member securable to a base; a first and a second joint mechanism movably securing the telescopic member to the support member and the base member and each having at least two rotational degrees of freedom; a locking device operatively connected to the joint mechanisms and the telescopic member, the locking device operable between a locked position in which the configuration of the positioning apparatus is fixed, and a released position in which the configuration of the positioning apparatus may be changed, the locking device being passively biased in the locked position; and a lock activation device to unlock the locking device in order to change the configuration of the positioning apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2011Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: CONMED CORPORATIONInventors: Guillaume Chauvette, Charles Sévigny
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Patent number: 9532843Abstract: A surgical boom having a surgical head with an electrical connection, a plurality of inlet ports, a compressed gas outlet, and a water outlet, one of the inlet ports having a cover, a hollow surgical arm mounted to a ceiling in a room and having a plurality of joints, a shaft passing through said ceiling, and a shaft collar attached to the ceiling, an outlet port, a filter media arranged between said outlet port and one of the inlet ports, the filter media comprising an ULPA media and an adsorbant layer, a control panel, a suction unit configured and arranged in a position below the ceiling to cause a fluid to be drawn from the inlet port through the filter media and out through said outlet port while minimizing noise in the proximity of the inlet port, wherein the fluid drawn from said inlet port comprises an exhaust path through the hollow arm.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2013Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Buffalo Filter LLCInventors: Christopher A. Palmerton, Samantha Bonano, Anthony Lizauckas, Kyrylo Shvetsov, Daniel Palmerton, Gregory Pepe, Joseph Lynch
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Patent number: 9532844Abstract: A cleaning device for a medical instrument including a flushing chamber, the flushing chamber having a lumen sized and configured to accept a distal end portion of the medical instrument during a cleaning process. The flushing chamber has an inlet port and an outlet port. Proximal and distal sealing members of the flushing chamber seal about the medical instrument when the instrument is inserted into the lumen of the flushing chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2013Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Zachary Thomas Garvey, John Robert Moberg, Lance Nevala, Lucas Schneider
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Patent number: 9532845Abstract: Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and individualized kinematic total knee replacement (TKR) analysis computing devices that obtain prosthesis data for a prosthesis. Anatomical and pathoanatomical data for a patient is determined. The anatomical data comprises at least a coronal mechanical lateral distal femoral angle and a posterior condylar axis that is specific to the patient. Bone and cartilage resection data is determined based on the prosthesis data, the anatomical data, and the pathoanatomical data. In one example, a recommended three-dimensional total knee replacement surgeon plan for the patient is output via a graphical interface. The recommended three-dimensional total knee replacement surgeon plan comprises the bone and cartilage resection data for facilitating implantation of the prosthesis in the patient.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2015Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: ITKR Software LLCInventors: Robert Alan Dossett, Harold Gene Dossett
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Patent number: 9532846Abstract: A medical light-source device for securing a long illumination time required for operations in the medical field, has an LED illumination section including an LED element; a holder to put the LED illumination section on a head of the operator; a battery power supply section that supplies power to the LED illumination section; a charger having an AC adaptor capable of being connected to a commercial power supply for charging the battery power supply section; and a battery holding belt to put the battery power supply section and the charger on the body of the operator. The battery holding belt has a switch section to switch on/off the LED illumination section and to adjust intensity of illumination of the LED element; and a control section to control a constant current, which is associated with the intensity of illumination, supplied to the LED illumination section.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignees: ACP JAPAN CO., LTD.Inventor: Shoichi Nakamura
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Patent number: 9532847Abstract: A package system for a medical device is disclosed. The package system may include a first part and a second part, where a holding platform can be incorporated into the first part of the package system and a collection tray can be incorporated into the second part of the package system. The first part may include leg portions. The leg portions of the first part can be folded and fitted into matching pockets of the second part, so that the first part of the package system can provided a relatively elevated and stable holding platform to hold the medical device. The package system can contain the medical device in the package system in a storage state, and hold the medical device with the holding platform in an application state.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: GT Urological, LLCInventors: David L. Hendrickson, David W. Anderson
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Patent number: 9532848Abstract: There is described a system and a method for assisting a user manipulating an object during a surgery, the method comprising: tracking the object in a sterile field in which surgery is being performed at a location using a tracking device which generates tracking data; processing the tracking data using a processing device located outside the sterile field to generate position and orientation information related to the object; and sending the position and orientation information related to the object to a displaying device positioned in the sterile field adjacent to the location at which the surgery is being performed, for display to the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2008Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: OTHOSOFT, INC.Inventors: Louis-Philippe Amiot, Éric Szmutny, Michel Boivin, Yannick Brosseau
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Patent number: 9532849Abstract: A robotic surgical system for performing a procedure within a sterile field comprises a manipulator arm and a surgical accessory clamp for coupling a surgical accessory to a distal end portion of the manipulator arm. The accessory clamp includes a base for coupling with the distal end portion of the manipulator arm, two clamp jaws with each of the clamp jaws directly and rotatably coupled to the base by respective pivot pins, and a lever operable to move the two clamp jaws between an open position and closed position. The system also includes a sterile drape covering the accessory clamp and the manipulator arm to shield the accessory clamp and the manipulator arm from the sterile field.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2012Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: S. Christopher Anderson, Thomas G. Cooper, Bruce Schena, William Burbank, Margaret M. Nixon, Alan Loh
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Patent number: 9532850Abstract: A process and also to a system for cleaning and maintaining a medical hand-held instrument, in particular a dental hand-held instrument, with an elongate grip sleeve in which elements are arranged which pertain to a drive arrangement and which are, in particular, rotatably supported, for example a shaft. For the purpose of cleaning and maintaining the hand-held instrument different media are conducted through it. In this connection a first medium, for example oil, is conducted merely through a power-transmission region surrounding the elements of the drive arrangement, whereas, on the other hand, a second medium, for example a cleaning agent, is conducted additionally also through at least one further cavity within the hand-held instrument.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2012Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: KALTENBACH & VOIGT GMBHInventors: Bernhard Kuhn, Bernd Gugel, Thomas Braun
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Patent number: 9532851Abstract: A quick stop drilling tool for use with a medical or dental treatment device includes a drilling tool having a body extending between a connection end and a working end and having a longitudinal extension along a longitudinal axis of the drilling tool. The drilling tool has a hollow outer shell in which a probe is held that can be moved along the longitudinal axis so that a part of the probe can be moved out of the shell through an opening. The probe is designed as an elongated pin, and its first end facing the connection end is held in the interior of the hollow outer shell. An electromagnetic sensor for detecting relative movement between the shell and the probe is arranged along the longitudinal extension of the body. The drilling tool has a channel for a treatment fluid extending along the longitudinal axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: W&H Dentalwerk Bürmoos GmbHInventors: Christian Pruckner, Thomas Jindra, Georg Watzek, Ewald Unger
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Patent number: 9532852Abstract: A heating apparatus (10) for heating materials used in dental treatment is provided. The heating apparatus (10) comprises a heating compartment (33) with a heating element (35) for heating air inside the heating compartment (33), at least one socket for receiving and holding at least a part of the materials used in dental treatment inside the heating compartment (33), and an airflow generator (32, 34) for generating an airflow in the heating compartment (33).Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: NYAMBE B.V.Inventors: Andreas Adrianus Lambertus Van Den Houdt, Franciscus Maria Verhoeven