Patents Issued in May 9, 2017
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Patent number: 9642632Abstract: A system for establishing an intramedullary path includes a body sized and configured to be received within a resected bone space. The body defines a first aperture that extends through the body and is sized and configured to receive a surgical tool therethrough. A first bone engaging structure extends from the body in a first direction and includes a first surface that is complementary to a surface topography of a first bone. When the first surface of the bone engaging structure engages the surface topography of the first bone to which the first surface is complementary, an axis defined by the first aperture is substantially collinear with a mechanical axis of the first bone.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Microport Orthopedics Holdings Inc.Inventors: Paul Stemniski, Richard Obert, Sarah Lancianese
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Patent number: 9642633Abstract: A system and method for developing customized apparatus for use in one or more surgical procedures is disclosed. The system and method incorporates a patient's unique anatomical features or morphology, which may be derived from capturing MRI data or CT data, to fabricate at least one custom apparatus. According to a preferred embodiment, the customized apparatus comprises a plurality of complementary surfaces based on a plurality of data points from the MRI or CT data. Thus, each apparatus may be matched in duplicate and oriented around the patient's own anatomy, and may further provide any desired axial alignments or insertional trajectories. In an alternate embodiment, the apparatus may further be aligned and/or matched with at least one other apparatus used during the surgical procedure.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: MIGHTY OAK MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: George Frey, Paul Ginzburg, Geoff Lai, Caleb Voelkel
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Patent number: 9642634Abstract: Therapy methods using pulsed cavitational ultrasound therapy can include the subprocesses of initiation, maintenance, therapy, and feedback of the histotripsy process, which involves the creation and maintenance of ensembles of microbubbles and the use of feedback in order to optimize the process based on observed spatial-temporal bubble cloud dynamics. The methods provide for the subdivision or erosion of tissue, liquification of tissue, and/or the enhanced delivery of therapeutic agents. Various feedback mechanisms allow variation of ultrasound parameters and provide control over the pulsed cavitational process, permitting the process to be tuned for a number of applications. Such applications can include specific tissue erosion, bulk tissue homogenization, and delivery of therapeutic agents across barriers.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANInventors: Charles A. Cain, Zhen Xu, J. Brian Fowlkes, Timothy L. Hall, William W. Roberts
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Patent number: 9642635Abstract: A system may comprise a clot engagement element having a collapsed delivery configuration and an expanded configuration for engaging with a clot and for dislodging the clot from a first vessel segment. An elongate member may be configured to apply a pull force to the clot engaging element to dislodge the clot from the first vessel segment. A clot removal catheter may include a lumen at its distal end sized to receive the clot and configured to maintain a stable position in a second blood vessel segment proximal of and larger in diameter than the first blood vessel segment. A distal end of the elongate member may be configured to protect a third blood vessel segment between the first and second blood vessel segments from tractive forces transmitted by the elongate member during clot dislodgement from the first vessel segment.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Neuravi LimitedInventors: David Vale, Eamon Brady, Michael Gilvarry, Brendan Casey
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Patent number: 9642636Abstract: An expansion instrument includes an elongated vaginal-insertion member insertable into the vaginal lumen which is adjacent the urethral lumen with biological tissue interposed between the two, an elongated urethral-insertion member insertable into the urethral lumen, an interlock device interlocking the vaginal-insertion member and the urethral-insertion member to allow the insertion members to be brought closer together and brought farther apart, and a vaginal-side restriction that restricts the positional relationship, with respect to the biological tissue, of the vaginal-insertion member after being inserted into the vaginal lumen.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shigeki Ariura, Masakatsu Kawaura
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Patent number: 9642637Abstract: A medical retrieval device and method used in endoscopic procedures to retrieve stones has a shaft comprising a sheath with a lumen and a drive wire slidably disposed within the lumen for operating a stone entrapping mechanism on the distal end of the retrieval device. The shaft, sheath and drive wire each have proximal, intermediate and distal portions, and each of the corresponding portions are in generally similar locations along the longitudinal length of the device. The stone entrapping mechanism is constructed of a plurality of flexible elements that are outwardly disposed to form an entrapment space and having an open and closed configuration. Configuration of the flexible elements and the entrapment space vary within the stone entrapment mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2013Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Annex Medical, Inc.Inventors: Stuart Lind, Daniel L. Dostal, Eugene C. Karels
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Patent number: 9642638Abstract: An apparatus for collection and removal of morcellated tissue includes a flexible sheet material including a top surface and a bottom surface. The sheet material is configurable from a roll configuration, to a substantially planar mat configuration, to a pouch configuration.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Inventor: Vicki J. Carrier
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Patent number: 9642639Abstract: A clot retrieval device (9501) for removing clot from a blood vessel comprises an inner elongate body (9503) and an outer elongate body (9504) at least partially overlying the inner elongate body (9503). The device also comprises an elongate member or shaft (9502) having a proximal end which extends exterior of a patient so that a user can retrieve the stent-basket device and captured clot by retracting the shaft (9502). The outer elongate body (9504) and the inner elongate body (9503) are connected to the distal end of the shaft (9502) and are expandable relative to the shaft (9502) from a collapsed delivery configuration to an expanded deployed configuration. The outer elongate body (9504) is expandable relative to the inner elongate body (9503) to a radial extent which is greater than the radial extent of the inner body (9503) in the deployed configuration.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Neuravi LimitedInventors: Eamon Brady, Michael Gilvarry, Mahmood K. Razavi, David Vale, Patrick Griffin, Brendan Casey, Jason McNamara
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Patent number: 9642640Abstract: An apparatus and method are presented for a lithotripter comprising a handle, a driver resource contained within the handle, a probe housed within the handle, an extension which may be the probe, a shielding insert, or a removable passageway which extends through a central lumen of the driver resource and protects the central lumen from surgical debris when in use and as a result reduces time required to perform sterilization. Sealing means may be provided to connect the probe into the handle, including a ferrule, collet, split collet, screw connection, O-rings, or a combination thereof to further limit debris entering the central lumen of the handle. It is contemplated that the device of the present invention is capable of achieving a four minute flash cycle validation.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Gyrus ACMI, INC.Inventors: Richard C. Faherty, Lawrence J. St. George
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Patent number: 9642641Abstract: A device for the positioning of a bone plate against a bone comprises first and second arms pivotally connected at a first joint, distal ends of the first and second arms defining a gripping surface for gripping the bone therebetween, proximal portions of the first and second arms extending in a first plane. An extension member couples to the first and second arms at the first joint and includes a first section extending distally from the first joint parallel to the first plane and a second section extending distally from the first section angled relative to the first section so that when the first and second arms are in a desired configuration gripping the bone, the second section extends parallel to the bone. A compression mechanism couples to the second section and includes a compression member and a coupling member being movable toward and away from the second section.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2009Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS, INC.Inventor: Alberto A. Fernandez Dell'oca
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Patent number: 9642642Abstract: A guide tip introducer is provided as a compatible attachment for a wide range endoscopic staplers of different makes and models. The guide tip introducer mounts to the anvil of an existing endoscopic stapler in order to facilitate the positioning of the stapler beneath a target structure, reducing the amount tissue needing to be dissected. The guide tip introducer is easy to attach and remove from the anvil tip through its particular shape and through the use of a magnetic attachment strip. The guide tip introducer is constructed from smooth semi-rigid material enabling guidance of the endoscopic stapler while minimizing damage around target structures. The guide tip introducer is fashioned using commonly available material found in most standard operating rooms.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Inventor: Kok Hoo Lim
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Patent number: 9642643Abstract: A device for minimally invasive tendon sheath release is presented. The device enables a surgeon to cut (“open”) a pulley that is obstructing a nodule and keeping a tendon from sliding smoothly. The device is generally comprised of a shaft having a guide probe at a distal end and a slidable blade positioned to slide longitudinally from the proximal to the distal end of the device. The device is inserted through a small incision and the guide probe is used to find the edge of the pulley. Once found, the probe is guided to an end of the pulley. After proper position is assured, a cutting blade is deployed by sliding the blade from the proximal to the distal end of the device until the pulley is completely released or where resistance is no longer felt.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: SonicSurg Innovations, LLCInventor: Brian Michael Jurbala
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Patent number: 9642644Abstract: A surgical device. The surgical device may comprise a transducer configured to provide vibrations along a longitudinal axis and an end effector coupled to the transducer and extending from the transducer along the longitudinal axis. The surgical device also may comprise a lower jaw extending parallel to the end effector. The lower jaw may comprise a clamp face extending toward the longitudinal axis. Also, the lower jaw may be slidable relative to the end effector to bring the clamp face toward a distal end of the end effector.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, LLCInventors: Kevin L. Houser, Stephanie J. Muir, Louis T. DeLuca, Daniel W. Price, William D. Boyd, Galen C. Robertson, Michael J. O'Neil
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Patent number: 9642645Abstract: A medical device may include an elongate member including a proximal end and a distal end. The medical device may also include a rotatable member at the distal end of the elongate member. The rotatable member may be rotatably coupled to the distal end of the elongate member. The rotatable member may include a longitudinal axis, and may be configured to rotate about the longitudinal axis. The rotatable member may also include a gripping element configured to engage a layer of tissue. The gripping element may be configured to selectively couple at least a portion of the layer of tissue to a surface of the rotatable member, to restrict relative movement between the portion of the layer of tissue and the surface of the rotatable member, during rotation of the rotatable member.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Paul Smith, Samuel Raybin, Naroun Suon, John B. Golden
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Patent number: 9642646Abstract: A catheter for positioning a guidewire across an occluded portion of a vessel includes an elongate catheter body, an integrated rotatable distal tip, a proximal handle region, and a catheter lumen extending through the elongate catheter body. The elongate body has a distal region configured to be bent to a set angle. The integrated rotatable distal tip includes one or more channeled flutes extending around the distal tip that are configured to be rotated in a first direction to dissect tissue and a second direction for bluntly contacting tissue. A proximal handle region includes a control for rotating the distal tip in either the first or second directions. The catheter lumen is configured to pass a guidewire.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2013Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Avinger, Inc.Inventors: Himanshu N. Patel, John B. Simpson
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Patent number: 9642647Abstract: A cannula assembly includes a cannula adapted for insertion within tissue and having a longitudinal passage extending along a longitudinal axis of the cannula for passage of a surgical instrument. An expandable member is mounted to the cannula and longitudinally spaced from a distal end of the cannula. The expandable member is adapted to expand, upon introduction of fluids therein, in a radially outward direction relative to the longitudinal axis whereby the expandable member engages the tissue to facilitate anchoring of the cannula relative to the tissue, and also to expand in a radially inward direction relative to the longitudinal axis and within the longitudinal passage to engage the surgical instrument positioned within the longitudinal passage to facilitate formation of a seal about the surgical instrument.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2016Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Covidien LPInventor: Joseph Hotter
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Patent number: 9642648Abstract: Method and device used in arthroscopy for the diagnosis or treatment of a joint (2) surrounded at least partially by a capsule (3). The device (1) includes a plate (6) and a traction element (10). The method comprises the steps of inserting the device (1) through the capsule (3) and into the joint (2), allowing the traction element (10) to protrude, and pulling the traction element (10) so that the plate (6) exerts an intra-articular traction of the capsule (3) tissues, creating a space (13) under the plate (6). The formation of this space (13) helps to improve visibility inside the joint (2) without the need for extensive incisions in the capsule (3). Therefore, the capsule (3) is less damaged after the arthroscopy and post-operative complications are minimized for the patient.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: UNIDAD DE CIRUGÍA ARTROSCÓPICA, S.L.Inventors: Nicolás Fiz Sánchez, Mikel Sanchez Álvarez
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Patent number: 9642649Abstract: Methods of orthopedic fixation and imagery analysis are provided. Images of first and second bone segments attached to a fixation apparatus are captured. Fixator elements identified in the images can be used to obtain imaging scene parameters. Bone elements identified in the images can be used with the imaging scene parameters to reconstruct a three dimensional representation of positions and/or orientations of the first and second bone segments with respect to the fixation apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2011Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventor: Arkadijus Nikonovas
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Patent number: 9642650Abstract: A method for placement of a pedicle screw and rod system that has particular application for spinal fusion surgery. The system includes pedicle screws having ball-shaped heads that are threaded through pedicles of adjacent vertebra into the vertebral body. The system also includes two cannulated posts having a head portion with a planar portion and an opening for accepting the head of the pedicle screw in a secure and multi-axial engagement. The system further includes a tube portion that is coupled to the head portion and extends above the patient's skin. The system also includes a lordotic slotted rod that is slid down the tube portions to be positioned on top of the head portions of the posts so that the planar portions are locked within the slot. Bolts are then slid down the tube portions and are threaded to a threaded portion on the planar portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2012Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: MI4SPINE, LLCInventors: Miguelangelo J. Perez-Cruet, John R. Pepper
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Patent number: 9642651Abstract: A spinal implant includes a plurality of frame segments that define a first frame array, the first frame array being coupled to a first mounting connection. A plurality of contiguous segments define a second frame array, the plurality of contiguous segments being coupled to a second mounting connection and being coupled to the first frame array. The first frame array and the second frame array are positioned relative to one another such that application of a force in a first direction to the first and second mounting connections results in application of a force in an opposing direction to the plurality of contiguous segments.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Brigham Young UniversityInventors: Anton Bowden, Larry Howell, Todd Nelson, Trevor Stephens
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Patent number: 9642652Abstract: In some embodiments, a cervical plate may include an elongate plate which bridges, during use, substantially adjacent vertebrae by anchoring the plate to the vertebrae. The cervical plate may include a plurality of openings extending through the elongate plate. The cervical plate may include plurality of bone fasteners. The bone fasteners may include a head and a shaft. The shaft may be positionable, during use, in the opening such that the shaft engages, during use, at least one of the vertebrae such that the bone fasteners couple the elongate plate to the vertebrae. The cervical plate may include a securing mechanism. The securing mechanism may, when activated, inhibit removal of at least one of the bone fasteners and inhibit movement of at least the shaft of the bone fastener in a lateral direction, while allowing movement of at least the shaft of the bone fastener along a substantially sagittal plane.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Choice Spine, LPInventors: Thomas N. Scioscia, Raymond J. Cloutier, Jason A. McAtamney
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Patent number: 9642653Abstract: A minimally invasive spinous process fixation system includes dual rigid spinous clamps, each configured to articulate axially along a cylindrical shaft, and together configured to enclose and clamp around the adjacent or superior spinous process by means of opposing and swiveling spherical contact heads with spiked spinous contact faces. The spinous clamps are lockable when desired compression is achieved. A pedicle clamp has right and left clamp bodies for enveloping pre-existing pedicle rods. Each of the right and left clamp bodies includes upper and lower rigid metal plates supporting medial and lateral swivel cups. The upper and lower medial swivel cups engage and clamp about a connecting rod extending from the spinous clamp, and the upper and lower lateral swivel cups engage and clamp about one of the pedicle rods. A channel through the upper and lower metal plates accepts a locking screw to simultaneously tighten and fix the swivel cups in place about the connecting rod and the pedicle rod.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2013Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Mercy Medical Research InstituteInventors: Alan Scarrow, Vinoth Sivapatham, Martin Reuter, Rahul Eapen, Keela Davis
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Patent number: 9642654Abstract: An instrument for attaching a driver shaft to a screw assembly using a thrusting motion. The instrument has a main shaft, a locking tube, and a driver shaft. The locking tube is slidably mounted within the main shaft and the driver shaft is slidably mounted within the locking tube. The locking tube is configured to urge a jaw assembly of the instrument into a tensioned engagement with a body member of the screw assembly. A locking mechanism is also included and is configured to lock the driver shaft in a fixed position relative to the locking tube. The locking mechanism may be configured to lock the driver shaft with respect to the locking tube after a distal end of the main shaft engages the screw assembly using the single action.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Alphatec Spine, Inc.Inventors: William Reimels, Tara Stevenson
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Patent number: 9642655Abstract: Apparatus and devices for percutaneously extending an existing spinal construct ipsilaterally with an additional spinal construct in a patient are disclosed. The additional spinal construct comprises a rod connector that includes an elongate additional rod integrally attached thereto. The additional rod is placed through an access port in a first orientation generally parallel to the longitudinal axis of the access port and rotated to a different second orientation generally transverse to the longitudinal axis of the access port. During such rotation the additional rod is moved subcutaneously beneath the skin of the patient from the existing spinal rod to an additional bone engaging implant. In another arrangement, the extension of an existing spinal construct in a minimally invasive procedure comprises a rod connector having an offset support for receiving an additional spinal rod that may be placed laterally interiorly or exteriorly of the existing spinal construct.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: SPINE WAVE, INC.Inventors: Scott McLean, Tim E. Adamson
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Patent number: 9642656Abstract: The invention relates to an intramedullary locking bone screw for fixing the metatarsophalangeal joint of the big toe in foot surgery that can be completely received in the bone, said locking bone screw extending along a longitudinal axis (L), with a first outside thread section (6) having a first thread pitch and with at least one second outside thread section (7), preferably designed to be self-tapping, having a pitch that is different from the first thread pitch.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2013Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: ZIMMER GMBHInventors: Vladko Kotuljac, Michael Vitek
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Patent number: 9642657Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for fixation of bone fragments at bone fractures. The device comprises at least two fixation means (1) and a securing plate (17). The securing plate (17) has threaded holes (19). The fixation means consist of bone nails (1) which each comprises a sleeve (5) with a displaceable pin (7) inside the sleeve. A forward portion (9) of the (7) pin defines a first fixing portion for fixing the bone nail (1) in an inner bone fragment (3). A threaded rear end portion (18) of the sleeve (5) defines a second fixing portion for locking the bone nail (1) to the securing plate (17). The sleeve (5) has a middle portion (32) along which the outer bone fragment (2) can slide inwards towards the inner bone fragment (3).Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Swemac Innovation ABInventor: Henrik Hansson
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Patent number: 9642658Abstract: A device is provided for use with a medical implant for delivering an agent to a designated site of action in a body of a patient. The agent-delivery device comprises a body member having an inner surface and a projection on the inner surface of the body member. An agent-delivery medium is associated with the body member. The agent-delivery medium includes a therapeutic agent for treating the body of the patient. The body member is adapted to be secured to the medical implant such that the projection operatively engages the medical implant for spacing the inner surface of the body member from the implant, and the agent-delivery medium is configured to release the therapeutic agent after implantation in the body of the patient. In alternative embodiments, the agent-delivery device comprises a first body member having an inner surface and a second body member having an inner surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2010Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: OrthoClip LLCInventors: Lawrence M. Boyd, Samuel B. Adams, Jr., Matthew R. Penny, Cody Blazek
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Patent number: 9642659Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an insert sleeve (19) designed for being inserted into a through hole (17) of an implant (11), comprising a body (21) with a through hole (23) defining an axial direction (29) for receiving a bone anchoring element (25), in particular a bone screw, said body (21) being made of a material having a first modulus of elasticity and including multiple recesses (27) arranged in circumferential direction around said through hole (23) of said insert sleeve (19) for reducing a stiffness of said insert sleeve (19) in a direction transverse (31, 33) to said axial direction (29). At least one of said recesses (27) is filled with a filler material (41) having a second modulus of elasticity different from said first modulus of elasticity.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Zimmer GMBHInventors: Jordan Velikov, Thomas Teschke
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Patent number: 9642660Abstract: A crimp configured to fix a cable about a bone includes a body extending from a proximal end to a distal end and a first channel extending through the body from the proximal end to the distal end, the first channel being sized and shaped to permit a cable to be slid therethrough along with a second channel extending through the body from the proximal end to the distal end, the second channel being sized and shaped to permit a cable to be slid therethrough and a deformable extension attached to the proximal end of the body, the extension including a lumen aligned with the second channel and sized and shaped to permit the cable to be slid therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2011Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS, INC.Inventor: Alberto A. Fernandez Dell'Oca
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Patent number: 9642661Abstract: A method and apparatus for securing a fractured or sectioned sternum in a patient's body is disclosed. The apparatus can include an attachment member and an adjustable flexible member construct. The attachment member can have a flexible member holder. The adjustable flexible member construct can have first and second ends and a body defining at least one passage portion. The first and second ends can be passed into and through the at least one passage portion via first and second openings associated with the at least one passage portion of the adjustable flexible member construct to form a pair of loops. The attachment member can be configured to be coupled to at least one of the formed pair of loops. The adjustable flexible member construct can be positioned about the sternum and can be reduced to compress the fractured or sectioned sternum.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2013Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Biomet Sports Medicine, LLCInventors: Kevin T. Stone, Brian K. Berelsman, Zachary Wagner
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Patent number: 9642662Abstract: A bone fixation screw comprises a proximal head being configured to lockingly engage a bone plate hole and a substantially helical shaft extending distally from the head along a substantially helical path. The head and the shaft are rotatably coupled to each other so that the shaft can rotate about a central longitudinal axis thereof with respect to the head.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2010Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Andreas Appenzeller, Robert Frigg, Tom Overes, Nicolas Bouduban
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Patent number: 9642663Abstract: A system comprises an inflatable bone tamp including a plurality of linearly aligned expandable bodies. The system further comprises an elongated tubular shaft extending through the plurality of linearly aligned expandable bodies. The elongated tubular shaft includes a shaft wall and an interior partition structure. The system further comprises a plurality of channels extending through the shaft, each of the channels formed by a segment of the shaft wall and the interior partition structure and each of the channels in communication with the respective one of the plurality of expandable bodies via openings in the shaft. Each of the expandable bodies is independently inflatable.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: KYPHON SÀRLInventors: Craig E. Lauchner, Michael A. Smith
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Patent number: 9642664Abstract: System, including apparatus and methods, for bending a bone fixation device, such as a bone plate during a surgical procedure. In some embodiments, the system may include an instrument having (a) a clamp with jaws and (b) a graspable handle portion that is manipulable while a bone plate is located between the jaws to bend the bone plate by application of pressure with the jaws at alternating positions along the bone plate. The clamp may allow the bone plate to be reoriented from an orientation for in-plane bending to an orientation for out-of-plane bending, and vice versa, while the bone plate remains between the jaws.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Acumed LLCInventors: Matthew J. Ryan, Eric D. Ward, Steven P. Horst
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Patent number: 9642665Abstract: A system for performing an electrosurgical procedure at a surgical site is disclosed. The system includes a sensor configured to continually sense an electrical and/or a physical property of tissue at a surgical site and to generate a sensor signal as a function thereof. The system also includes a control module configured to process the sensor signal using a processor, an algorithm, and a map having one or more predetermined values. The control module is further configured to compare the sensor signal to a predetermined level to determine reliability of the sensor signal and to signal an electrosurgical generator in response to a reliable sensor signal such that the electrosurgical generator enters energy control mode, wherein the electrosurgical generator matches an output of the control signal with a predetermined value from the map.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Covidien AGInventors: Craig Weinberg, Kari Leidich
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Patent number: 9642666Abstract: An ablation method according to the present invention includes: a step I of observing a target region in a tissue of a subject and a conservation region that should not be ablated, the conservation region being adjacent to the ablation target region, using an observation unit; a step II of placing a thermal monitoring instrument that deforms if a temperature thereof exceeds a predetermined temperature, in a boundary between the ablation target region and the conservation region under the observation using the observation unit; a step III of heating the ablation target region using an ablation instrument while observing the ablation target region using the observation unit; and a step IV of stopping the heating at a stage where deformation of the thermal monitoring instrument is confirmed.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Shoichi Matsui, Kenichi Nishina
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Patent number: 9642667Abstract: A surgical system that connects biological tissue includes a) a surgical instrument with two tool elements movable in relation to one another and in each case including an electrode, which electrodes, in a coming-together position of the tool elements preferably define a minimum distance from one another, lie opposite one another and face one another, and b) a medically compatible material assisting connection of the tissue.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2011Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Aesculap AGInventors: Dieter Weisshaupt, Christoph Rothweiler, Jürgen Wegmann, Bernd Blender
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Patent number: 9642668Abstract: This invention relates to the treatment of a patient's lung, for example, a lung exhibiting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and in particular to methods and devices for affecting lung volume reduction, preferably for achieving acute or immediate lung volume reduction following treatment. The lung volume reduction is effected by delivering a condensable vapor at a temperature above body temperature to the desired regions of the patient's lung to damage tissue therein. Blood flow and air flow to the damaged tissue region is essentially terminated, rendering the target region non-functional. Alternative energy sources may be used to effect the thermal damage to the lung tissue.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Uptake Medical Technology Inc.Inventors: Robert L. Barry, Brian Thomas Cran, Dean T. Corcoran, Sheldon K. Lee
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Patent number: 9642669Abstract: A treatment system includes a pair of holding members, a high-frequency energy output section, a heat generating section and a control section. At least one of the pair of holding members moves to the other holding member. The high-frequency energy output section and the heat generating section are provided on at least one of the holding members. The high-frequency energy output section exerts high-frequency energy to a living tissue to denature the living tissue, and collects the biological information of the living tissue. The heat generating section applies heat to it held between the holding members, generates the heat owing to the supply of the energy, and conducts the heat therefrom to denature the living tissue. The control section controls the output of the energy to the high-frequency energy output section and the heat generating section based on the biological information collected by the high-frequency energy output section.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2008Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Takashino, Kenichi Kimura
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Patent number: 9642670Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an electrosurgical generator including a tank configured to output energy and an H-bridge configured to drive the tank. The generator also includes a choke. The choke impedes a common mode current generated by the H-bridge and provides a leakage inductance for the tank.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: COVIDIEN LPInventors: Joshua H. Johnson, James A. Gilbert
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Patent number: 9642671Abstract: A medical device including one or more components positioned to contact contaminants during use of the medical device. The one or more components including one or more limited-use portions transitionable upon use from an initial state, wherein the limited-use portion(s) exhibits a clean appearance, to a used state, wherein the limited-use portion(s) exhibits a contaminated appearance that visually indicates to a user that the at least one component is not further usable.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: COVIDIEN LPInventors: Weng-Kai K. Lee, Christopher A. Deborski, Duane E. Kerr
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Patent number: 9642672Abstract: A surgical instrument includes a housing and an elongated shaft extending distally therefrom. The elongated shaft includes a proximal portion, a distal portion and a flexible portion supported therebetween. The flexible portion permits pivotal movement of the distal portion of the elongated shaft and an end effector supported thereon. A locking mechanism is operatively associated with the flexible portion of the elongated shaft to selectively impede pivotal motion of the distal portion. The locking mechanism includes a fluid chamber defined within the flexible portion in which a variable viscosity fluid disposed. The variable viscosity fluid is responsive to the application of an electromagnetic field to exhibit increased rigidity in the presence of the electromagnetic field and reduced rigidity in the absence of the electromagnetic field. An electrical coil is arranged such that the electromagnetic field may be selectively induced by the delivery of electrical energy from a power source.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: COVIDIEN LPInventor: Peter Michael Mueller
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Patent number: 9642673Abstract: An apparatus includes a balloon adapted to be placed adjacent a calcified region of a body. The balloon is inflatable with a liquid. The apparatus further includes a shock wave generator within the balloon that produces shock waves that propagate through the liquid for impinging upon the calcified region adjacent the balloon. The shock wave generator includes a plurality of shock wave sources distributed within the balloon.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2012Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: SHOCKWAVE MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: John Adams, Thomas G. Goff, Doug Hakala
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Patent number: 9642674Abstract: While detecting a cardiac arrhythmia, a mapping electrode of a probe is used to associate a local activation time with a first location in a region of interest in the heart. While detecting an absence of the cardiac arrhythmia, the local activation time is associated with a second location in the heart. Electrical data of the first location is assigned to the second location, and an electroanatomic map of the heart is generated that includes the second location in association with the assigned electrical data of the first location.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2013Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.Inventors: Yoram Chmiel, Gal Hayam
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Patent number: 9642675Abstract: Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for the ablation of tissue. Embodiments include an ablation catheter which has an array of ablation elements attached to a deployable carrier assembly. The carrier assembly can be constrained within the lumen of a catheter, and deployed to take on an expanded condition.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2013Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Medtronic Ablation Frontiers LLCInventors: Randell L. Werneth, Marshall L. Sherman, Thomas M. Castellano, J. Christopher Flaherty, Gary Edward Currie
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Patent number: 9642676Abstract: A system and method is disclosed herein for measuring bone slope or tilt of a prepared bone surface of the muscular-skeletal system. The system comprises a three-axis accelerometer for measuring position, rotation, and tilt. In one embodiment, the three-axis accelerometer can be housed in a prosthetic component that couples to a prepared bone surface. The system further includes a remote system for receiving, processing, and displaying quantitative measurements from one or more sensors. A bone is placed in extension. The three-axis accelerometer is referenced to a bone landmark of the bone when the bone is in extension. The three-axis accelerometer is then coupled to the prepared bone surface with the bone in extension. The slope or tilt of the bone surface is measured. In the example, the slope or tilt of the bone surface corresponds to at least one surface of the prosthetic component attached thereto.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2013Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: ORTHOSENSOR INCInventors: Marc Stein, Martin Roche
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Patent number: 9642677Abstract: An irrigating device, such as an oral irrigator or a nasal irrigator. The irrigating device includes a pump and a motor connected to the pump and configured to selectively drive the pump. Additionally, the irrigating device includes a massage module in communication with the motor. During a normal mode, the pump has a first pulse rate and during a massage mode, the massage module provides a massage control signal to the motor, causing the pump to have a second pulse rate.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Water Pik, Inc.Inventors: Harold A. Luettgen, Gordon Haszier
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Patent number: 9642678Abstract: In particular embodiments, method, apparatus and system for receiving digital representations of the initial parameters of a dentition; simulating a first orthodontic treatment process on the digital representations of the initial parameters, displaying a set of output results from the simulation of the first orthodontic treatment process, simulating a second orthodontic treatment process on the output results from the simulation of the first orthodontic treatment process, and displaying a set of output results from the simulation of the second orthodontic treatment process are provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2008Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventor: Eric Kuo
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Patent number: 9642679Abstract: Rapid palatal expander which has an actuator element provided with a drive head and with two threaded stems, as well as a first and a second main bodies provided with aligned female threads, each engaged by a threaded stem of the actuator element for guiding a simultaneous movement of the main bodies. A plurality of longitudinal seats are provided on a peripheral surface of the drive head. A plate is connected to one of the two main bodies and is provided with a flexible tab elastically in abutment against the peripheral surface of the drive head and able to be selectively engaged with its profile in the longitudinal seats of the head at angular adjustment positions assumed by the latter.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: VISOTTICA INDUSTRIE S.P.A.Inventor: Rinaldo Montalban
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Patent number: 9642680Abstract: A dental implant including a dental implant basic body extending along a longitudinal axis from an apical end to an opposite coronal end, which includes an anchoring part facing the apical end and intended to be anchored in bone of a patient, and a head part facing the coronal end and intended to form the basis on which a suprastructure is mounted. The anchoring part includes a shaft that is substantially cylindrical or that tapers toward the apical end in a cone-like manner. At least a portion of the shaft forms a bone tissue contact region, the outer surface forming a bone tissue contact surface. Coronally to the contact region a soft tissue contact region is arranged, the outer surface forming a soft tissue contact surface. The implant further includes nanostructures formed on the soft tissue contact surface which extend in at least two dimensions to 200 nm at most.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2014Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: STRAUMANN HOLDING AGInventor: Simon Berner
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Patent number: 9642681Abstract: Disclosed are a dental plaster and a method for manufacturing the same. The dental plaster includes a gypsum body. The gypsum body has a horseshoe shaped upper body which matches with a predetermined teeth shape.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: DK MUNGYO CORPORATIONInventor: Doo Suek Nam