Patents Issued in June 12, 2018
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Patent number: 9993201Abstract: A wearable device includes a main body, and a strap connected to the main body, the strap being configured to be flexible. The wearable device further includes a light source disposed in the strap, the light source being configured to emit light onto a surface of a user. The wearable device further includes a spectrum portion disposed in the main body, and an optical waveguide disposed in the strap, the optical waveguide being configured to receive the emitted light traveling into and out from the surface, and transmit the received light to the spectrum portion. The wearable device further includes a detector disposed in the main body, the detector being configured to detect the transmitted light dispersing through the spectrum portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Sang kyu Kim
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Patent number: 9993202Abstract: A multi-layer pad that is adapted to be used in determining an analyte concentration is disclosed. The multi-layer pad includes a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The first layer includes an enzyme wherein the enzyme is adapted to assist in determining the analyte concentration. The second layer is attached to a first surface of the first layer. The second layer is made of a skin-conforming material. The third layer is attached to a second surface of the first layer wherein the first layer is located between the second layer and the third layer. It is contemplated that the multi-layer pad may also be a two layer system.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2007Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: ASCENSIA DIABETES CARE HOLDINGS AGInventors: Boru Zhu, Mihailo V. Rebec, Pamela J. Burson
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Patent number: 9993203Abstract: An electronic sticker assembly includes a first electronic sticker comprising an upper surface, a lower surface, and a first group of conductive connection dots on the upper surface, a first adhesive layer on the first electronic sticker and comprising a first window. The first window is positioned to expose the first group of one or more conductive connection dots. A second electronic sticker on the first adhesive layer includes a lower surface and one or more second conductive connection dots on the lower surface. The first group of conductive connection dots on the upper surface of the first electronic sticker are in contact with the one or more second conductive connection dots on the lower surface of the second electronic sticker through the first window in the first adhesive layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: VivaLnk, Inc.Inventors: Junfeng Mei, Jiang Li
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Patent number: 9993204Abstract: The method and apparatus disclosed herein determine a user cadence from the output of an inertial sensor mounted to or proximate the user's body. In general, the disclosed cadence measurement system determines the user cadence based on frequency measurements acquired from an inertial signal output by the inertial sensor. More particularly, a cadence measurement system determines a user cadence from an inertial signal generated by an inertial sensor, where the inertial signal comprises one or more frequency components. The cadence measurement system determines a peak frequency of the inertial signal, where the peak frequency corresponds to the frequency component of the inertial signal having the largest amplitude. After applying the peak frequency to one or more frequency threshold comparisons, the cadence measurement system determines the user cadence based on the peak frequency and the frequency threshold comparison(s).Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Valencell, Inc.Inventor: Eric Douglas Romesburg
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Patent number: 9993205Abstract: Methods and devices for classifying a cardiac response to pacing involve establishing a retriggerable cardiac response classification window. A first cardiac response classification window is established subsequent to delivery of a pacing pulse. A cardiac signal following the pacing stimulation is sensed in the first classification window. A second cardiac response classification may be triggered if a trigger characteristic is detected in the first classification window. The cardiac signal is sensed in the second classification window if the second classification window is established. The cardiac response to the pacing stimulation is determined based on characteristics of the cardiac signal. The cardiac response may be determined to be one of a captured response, a non-captured response, a non-captured response added to an intrinsic beat, and a fusion/pseudofusion beat, for example.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2010Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.Inventors: Scott A. Meyer, Yanting Dong, Jeremy Maniak, Doug Birholz, John Voegele
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Patent number: 9993206Abstract: A sensitive measure of brain condition simultaneously evaluates multiple measurements of water diffusion in brain tissue combined so as to correct for covariance between the different data types of the multipoint measurements and compares the multipoint measurements to a corresponding multipoint measure representing normal brain tissue to provide a distance indicating a likelihood of atypical brain conditions.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research FoundationInventors: Andrew Lafayette Alexander, Douglas Carl Dean, III, Gregory Russel Kirk, Brittany Gail Travers
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Patent number: 9993207Abstract: The present disclosure includes a medical monitoring hub as the center of monitoring for a monitored patient. The hub includes configurable medical ports and serial ports for communicating with other medical devices in the patient's proximity. Moreover, the hub communicates with a portable patient monitor. The monitor, when docked with the hub provides display graphics different from when undocked, the display graphics including anatomical information. The hub assembles the often vast amount of electronic medical data, associates it with the monitored patient, and in some embodiments, communicates the data to the patient's medical records.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: MASIMO CORPORATIONInventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Eric Karl Kinast, Bilal Muhsin
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Patent number: 9993208Abstract: Present embodiments are directed to a system and method capable of detecting and graphically indicating physiologic patterns in patient data. For example, present embodiments may include a monitoring system that includes a monitor capable of receiving input relating to patient physiological parameters and storing historical data related to the parameters. Additionally, the monitoring system may include a screen capable of displaying the historical data corresponding to the patient physiological parameters. Further, the monitoring system may include a pattern detection feature capable of analyzing the historical data to detect a physiologic pattern in a segment of the historical data and capable of initiating a graphical indication of the segment on the screen when the physiologic pattern is present in the segment.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Keith Batchelder, Scott Amundson, Mark Brecht
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Patent number: 9993209Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system dynamically monitors a patient's physiological condition and location information to generate an alarm signal to enable the patient to timely administer a health substance. Initially, the system monitors location information of a health substance and the patient and physiological information of the patient. A processor in the system determines a predicted time when the patient may attain a physiological condition for receiving the health substance and may further determine a transit time for the patient to travel to a location of the health substance. Based on the predicted and transit times, the system issues an alarm signal to the patient prior to the predicted time. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for monitoring a patient's physiological condition and location information to generate an alarm signal in substantially the same manner described above.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kanako Fujitani, Mariko Ishige, Yusuke Nishitani, Yutaka Oishi, Tatsuya Sobue, Masayuki Yamana
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Patent number: 9993210Abstract: A device for processing alarms includes a processor and a computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform various operations. The operations include receiving a first alarm from a first diagnostic device and determining a location associated with a first user. When the location associated with the first user is determined to be proximate to a device, the operations further include presenting a first verbal alert indicating that the first diagnostic device is presenting the first alarm. When the location associated with the first user is determined to be not proximate to the device, the operations further include sending a first notification message to a first mobile device of the first user indicating that the first diagnostic device is presenting the first alarm.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLCInventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Francisco Martinez, George Goehring
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Patent number: 9993211Abstract: A system and method for automatic registration of medical images includes accessing image data of a subject and plurality of elongated fiducial markers arranged in an asymmetrical orientation and analyzing the image data to detect the elongated fiducial markers by applying a line filter to treat the elongated fiducial markers as lines within the image data. The system and method also includes matching the elongated fiducial markers within the image data to a model of the elongated fiducial markers, registering the image data with a coordinate system based on the matching, and generating a report indicating at least the registered image data.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.Inventors: Junichi Tokuda, Sang-Eun Song, Nobuhiko Hata
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Patent number: 9993212Abstract: A cross section obtained by cutting an X-ray beam at a time of taking projection data from the X-ray beam detected by an X-ray sensor, with a plane, which is perpendicular to the central axis of the X-ray beam and runs through the central axis of a photographic region, is defined as a photography specification surface. The number of the photography specification surface per unit area in a plane, as the photographic region is viewed from a point in the direction along the central axis of the photographic region, is defined as overlap density of the projection data. A controller of an X-ray photography device executes a leveling control which levels the overlap density of the projection data between at an outer portion and inner portion of the photographic region. Thus, an X-ray photographic device is provided that is capable of improving the image quality in the entire photographic region.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: THE YOSHIDA DENTAL MFG. CO., LTD.Inventor: Terumi Takemoto
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Patent number: 9993213Abstract: An X-ray imaging apparatus displays a bone or soft tissue image of an X-ray image, which corresponds to a region selected by a user, thereby reducing a diagnosis time. In addition, an X-ray imaging system transmits a first energy X-ray image and a second energy X-ray image to a central image management system, and a user control apparatus receives the images from the central image management system and displays a bone or soft tissue image corresponding to the selected region, thereby reducing burden imposed on server capacity of the central image management system as well as reducing a diagnosis time.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Duhgoon Lee
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Patent number: 9993214Abstract: The present invention provides an image displaying device including: a display section that displays a pair of mutually related sectional images; a reception section that, for one of the sectional image pair, receives a successive change instruction for a slice position; a generation section that generates a combined sectional image, corresponding to the slice position of the one sectional image, from the other sectional image of the pair; and a controller that, in cases in which the reception section has received the successive change instruction, effects control to switch display of the one sectional image from the one sectional image being displayed to the one sectional image that corresponds to the slice position indicated in the instruction, and, in conjunction with switching, to successively switch display of the other sectional image from the other sectional image that is being displayed to the combined sectional image.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Masakazu Fukuyo, Tomoki Inoue
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Patent number: 9993215Abstract: A method and system for CT image correction are provided. Contour data of a scanned subject can be obtained, and a shape image of the scanned subject can be reconstructed according to the contour data, wherein the contour data of the scanned subject can be obtained by scanning the scanned subject through a piece of visual equipment. Original CT projection data of the scanned subject can be obtained, and a CT image can be reconstructed according to the original CT projection data. For determining a supervision field image, image matching can be performed between the shape image and the CT image of the scanned subject. Supervision field projection data can be obtained, and the supervision field projection data can be used to correct the CT image.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: SHENYANG NEUSOFT MEDICAL SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Shanshan Lou, Changkun Liu, Hongbo Wang
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Patent number: 9993216Abstract: A method for creating a resultant image for a specifiable, virtual x-ray quanta energy distribution includes capturing a first image dataset of the patient, capturing at least one second image dataset of the patient, and specifying a virtual x-ray quanta energy distribution. The method also includes establishing a spatial density distribution of the patient for at least two materials based on the first image dataset and the at least one second image dataset. The method includes creating a third image dataset of the patient based on the specified virtual x-ray quanta energy distribution and the established spatial material density distributions. The third image dataset represents an x-ray attenuation distribution of the patient corresponding to the specified virtual x-ray quanta energy distribution. The method also includes creating the virtual image from the third image dataset.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Flohr, Steffen Kappler, Rainer Raupach, Bernhard Schmidt
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Patent number: 9993217Abstract: The disclosure is related an apparatus and method for producing a panoramic radiograph of a target object using a three dimensional (3D) radiograph of the same object. The apparatus may include a communication circuit and a processor. The communication circuit may be configured to receive 3D radiograph digital data of the 3D radiograph. The processor may be configured to generate a plurality of x-ray projection images of the target object by performing forward-projection on voxels associated with the target object, and to combine the generated x-ray projection images to produce the panoramic radiograph of the target object.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignees: VATECH Co., Ltd., VATECH EWOO Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Woong Bae, Sang Og Na
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Patent number: 9993218Abstract: An image processing method of an image processing apparatus includes projecting centers of pixels of a pixel grid onto a preset common axis, mapping a boundary of a detector cell comprised in the detection unit on the preset common axis, and determining a detector value based on the projecting the centers of the pixels onto the preset common axis and the mapping the boundary of the detector cell on the preset common axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoon-mi Hong, Gye-hyun Kim, Jae-sung Lee, Jae-chool Lee, Hae-kyung Jung
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Patent number: 9993219Abstract: A device for estimating scatter in X-ray imaging is described. An anti-scatter grid with varying grid ratio is used in conjunction with an X-ray detector. The anti-scatter grid comprises attenuating lamellae that block scattered radiation. The anti-scatter grid contains regions of lesser or greater scatter rejection efficiency, which can be achieved by variations in the grid ratio. Contrast between these regions can be used to estimate residual scatter content. A method for estimating scatter from this device is further described.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityInventor: Scott Hsieh
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Patent number: 9993220Abstract: Disclosed are methods and devices for estimating object scatter and/or internal scatter in a multi-level photon-counting x-ray detector, as well as x-ray tomographic imaging while correcting for object and internal scatter. The x-ray detector has at least two layers of detector diodes mounted in an edge-on geometry, e.g. designed for 1) estimating the object scatter contribution to the counts in a top layer of the at least two layers based on difference(s) in counts between the top layer and lower layer(s) under the assumption the object scatter has a slowly varying spatial distribution, and/or 2) estimating counts from reabsorption of photons that have Compton scattered inside the detector based on selectively blinding some detector elements from primary radiation by placing a highly attenuating beam stop on top of the detector elements, in lower layer(s) or in both top layer and lower layer(s), and measuring the counts in those detector elements.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: PRISMATIC SENSORS ABInventors: Mats Danielsson, David Michael Hoffman
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Patent number: 9993221Abstract: An X-ray apparatus includes an X-ray radiator configured to radiate an X-ray, and a controller acquiring orientation information of the X-ray radiator and orientation information of at least one X-ray detector, selecting the at least one X-ray detector based on the orientation information of the X-ray radiator and the orientation information of the at least one X-ray detector, and determining a power mode of the selected X-ray detector to be a power consumption mode and a power mode of an X-ray detector that is not selected, to be a power save mode.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Seung-hoon Kim, Sang-woo Kim, Jung-woo Kim, Sung-jin Park, Ja-woong Yoon, Eun-aeh Cho, Jin-beom Hong, Do-hyeong Hwang
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Patent number: 9993222Abstract: A system and method of dynamic virtual collision objects includes a control unit for a medical device. The control unit includes one or more processors and an interface coupling the control unit to the medical device. The control unit is configured to determine a position of a first movable segment of the medical device, a volume occupied by the first movable segment being approximated by one or more first virtual collision objects (VCOs); adjust, based on the position and motion goals for the medical device, one or more properties of the first VCOs; determine, based on the position and the properties, first geometries of the first VCOs; receive second geometries of one or more second VCOs associated with a second segment of a second device; determine relationships between the first VCOs and the second VCOs; and adjust, based on the relationships, a motion plan for the medical device.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Mahdi Azizian, Jonathan M. Sorger, Holger Kunze, Lutz Blohm
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Patent number: 9993223Abstract: The present invention relates to mammography. In particular, the present invention relates to a method and a corresponding system for individually monitoring a compression force in an apparatus for mammographic examination for personalized compression guidance. In order to provide a personalized guidance for the compression of the breast in a first step (S1a, S1b, S1c) a breast contact area (A) between a breast under examination and a compression plate (3) or a support plate (15) is determined. In a next step (S5) a compression force limit is determined based on the breast contact area (A). Then, in a further step (S9a, S9b, S9c) an output signal (5) representative of the relation between the breast contact area (A) and the compression force limit is provided to a user such that the user may decide whether to complete or to continue the application of compression force.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2012Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Klaus Erhard, Hanns-Ingo Maack, Andreas Loeprich, Nataly Wieberneit
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Patent number: 9993224Abstract: Ultrasound systems and methods provide a workflow to automatically identify a fetal heartbeat. A region of interest (ROI) is identified in an ultrasound image and an ROI is identified that contains the fetal heart. The ultrasound system produces spatially different M-mode lines associated with the ROI. The ultrasound system can identify a fetal heartbeat by tracking the changing position of the heart wall and estimate the fetal heart rate, e.g. by measuring from peak-to-peak of two subsequent waves. The echo signals for the M-mode lines can also be ranked according to the likely presence of a fetal heartbeat in the echo data.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Dorothy Anita Strassner, Ji Cao, Vijay Thakur Shamdasani, Intekhab Alam Mufti Mohammed
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Patent number: 9993225Abstract: An apparatus and methods to quantify the volume of urine in a human bladder with a limited number of acoustic beams is disclosed. In a first version a plurality of narrow ultrasound beams is transmitted in different directions towards the bladder. Returning echoes are converted to digital form and stored in memory. A volume display on the apparatus allows to define the optimal apposition of the transducer assembly. Signal processing software automatically determines the bladder Depth D and Height H and computes the volume of urine. In a second version, a single wide angle ultrasound beam transducer transmits ultrasounds signals at a fundamental frequency to quantify the urine volume. Return signals originating from a depth beyond the usual position of the posterior wall depth of a filled bladder are analyzed for presence of higher harmonic signals, which in turn are related to the presence or absence of urine.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2010Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Verathon Inc.Inventors: Gerald McMorrow, Henri Baartmans, Nicolaas Bom, Charles Theodoor Lancee
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Patent number: 9993226Abstract: The hand-held device detects the distance between a muscle and an outer skin layer in a body by impacting the outer surface of the skin and detecting the distance to the muscle from that point of engagement. The device includes a first end including a force sensor configured to detect the force of an impact of the first end to an associated body part. The device further includes a distance sensor provided at the first end configured to detect the distance between a skin outer layer and a muscle; and a main body configured to receive a hand. The detection device includes a controller and processor to detect the impact force and distance between the skin outer layer and muscle at engagement. The device may be used in a method of determining muscle depth and/or location in connection with the prescription and/or administration of anaphylaxis medications by auto injector.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Mylan Inc.Inventor: John W. Denny
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Patent number: 9993227Abstract: In an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, a vascular wall tracker tracks pulsation-originated vascular wall movement based on reception signals obtained through transmission and reception of ultrasonic beams by an ultrasound probe to and from a subject, and a pulsating timing determiner determines pulsating timing by detecting pulsation-originated periodic changes in the vascular wall movement tracked by the vascular wall tracker in each of sound rays, obtaining a detection time point as a pulsating timing candidate in each of the sound rays, and statistically analyzing pulsating timing candidates in the respective sound rays within a single pulse duration. The ultrasound diagnostic apparatus can accurately measure the state of a blood vessel merely using information obtained through ultrasound examination without electrocardiographic waveforms.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Yukiya Miyachi
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Patent number: 9993228Abstract: An accurate real-time measurement of a displacement vector is achieved on the basis of the proper beamforming that require a short time for obtaining one echo data frame without suffering affections by a tissue motion. The displacement measurement method includes the steps of: (a) yielding ultrasound echo data frames by scanning an object laterally or elevationally using an ultrasound beam steered electrically and/or mechanically with a single steering angle over an arbitrary three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system involving existence of three axes of a depth direction, a lateral direction, and an elevational direction; and (b) calculating a displacement vector distribution by implementing a block matching on the predetermined ultrasound echo data frames yielded at more than two phases.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Inventor: Chikayoshi Sumi
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Patent number: 9993229Abstract: A suture loop assembly is provided for securing a specimen collection bag in a closed condition. The suture loop assembly generally includes a length of suture material forming a distal loop and a one-way ferrule for securing the distal loop in a closed condition about an upper end of the specimen collection bag. A specimen retrieval device is also provided for use with the suture loop assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2012Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: COVIDIEN LPInventor: Kenneth H. Whitfield
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Patent number: 9993230Abstract: This disclosure includes shave biopsy devices having an elongated body with a proximal surface extending between first and second ends that are configured to be grasped by a user's fingers and a blade coupled to the body, where the body is configured to be curved such that the proximal surface is concave. In some devices, at least a portion of the body has a substantially fixed curvature. Some devices include a depth gauge disposed on at least one of the blade and proximal surface of the body, the depth gauge configured to indicate slicing depth of the blade when the body is curved to at least one predetermined curvature.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: SETON HEALTHCARE FAMILYInventor: James Allred
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Patent number: 9993231Abstract: A biopsy tool includes an elongated flexible body, a sensor assembly, and a screw member. The sensor assembly is disposed within the elongated flexible body towards the distal end thereof. The sensor assembly includes a location sensor(s) configured to enable detection of a location of the sensor assembly. The screw member is coupled to the distal end of elongated flexible body, extends distally from the elongated flexible body, and is positioned distally of the sensor assembly. The screw member defines a helical configuration having a hollow interior and is configured for simultaneous rotation relative to tissue and advancement into tissue to obtain a tissue sample.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: COVIDIEN LPInventors: David M. Costello, Thomas P. Crowley, Thomas D. Magnuson
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Patent number: 9993232Abstract: A biopsy device to remove tissue from a patient and place a marker in the patient. The device includes a needle with an opening where tissue enters. The tissue which enters the opening is cut and stored in the device. After the desired number of tissue samples are obtained, a marker is released from the same needle opening. The biopsy sampling and marker release are integrated for one hand operation in a single device.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Inventors: Andrew N. Ellingson, David I. Ellingson
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Patent number: 9993233Abstract: Biopsy forceps devices used to obtain tissue samples from a patient using an endoscopic system include larger cup size, longer jaw length, a squared front face, a tapered jaw design, and an offset pivot to enable taking a larger sample size. The forceps include a drive wire attached to the jaws by linkages having pins slidable within slots on the jaws of the forceps, providing the offset pivot point.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: EndoChoice, Inc.Inventors: Justin Wolfe, Tracy Knapp
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Patent number: 9993234Abstract: An intravascular delivery device is disclosed comprising a delivery wire having a proximal and a distal end and an interior lumen extending there between and wherein said distal end comprises a connection interface adapted to matingly interlock with a proximal end portion of a medical implantable device, wherein said delivery device comprises a locking unit arranged to secure said connection interface in a locking position in which said medical implant is pivotably locked before a controlled release.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2010Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Occlutech Holding AGInventors: Herbert Maslanka, Stevan Nielsen
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Patent number: 9993235Abstract: Disclosed herein is a non-vascular fistula treatment system. The system may include a collapsible member, at least one tether, and a bioresorbable material. The collapsible member may be configured for positioning through a fistula tract and may comprise first and second disc members. The outer perimeter of the second disc member may be larger than the outer perimeter of the first disc member, and the first disc member may comprise a tether attachment structure. The at least one tether may be attached to the tether attachment structure. The bioresorbable material may be configured for placement in the fistula tract and may comprise a coupling structure configured to couple to the at least one tether. The second disc member may be configured to seal to a surface of a body lumen at a distal opening of the fistula tract and occlude the fistula tract at the distal opening.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2013Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Curaseal Inc.Inventors: Akshay Mavani, Kenton Fong, Leif Erik Bansner, Nathan Christopher Maier, Dean Hu, Moshe Pinto, Harold Francis Carrison, Eliot Kim
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Patent number: 9993236Abstract: A hemostatic device for sealing a puncture of a vessel includes a first tube defining a first lumen. The first lumen is configured to receive a guidewire and a flow of a fluid therethrough. The hemostatic device also includes a second tube circumscribing at least a portion of the first tube and at least partially defining a second lumen. The hemostatic device further includes a substantially rigid stopper coupled to a distal end of the second tube. The stopper defines a stopper lumen that receives the first tube therethrough in an interference fit. A first opening is defined in a side wall of the first tube and positioned distally relative to the stopper. At least one injection groove defined in an outer surface of the stopper cooperates with the distal end of the second tube to define at least one second opening in flow communication with the second lumen.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Phillips Medical, LLCInventor: Victor Matthew Phillips
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Patent number: 9993237Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for suturing of body lumens allow the suturing of vascular puncture sites located at the distal end of a percutaneous tissue tract. An elongated articulated foot of the device can be inserted through the penetration and actuated so that the foot extends along the lumenal axis. The foot can carry suturing attachment cuffs with one end of the cuff adapted to receive a needle, while the other end receives suture. A portion of the foot and/or lumen of the shaft can receive a portion of the suture and can include friction reducing structure that aid with movement of the sutured during removal of the cuffs from within the penetration.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Abbott LaboratoriesInventor: Dawn Ma
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Patent number: 9993239Abstract: A surgical retractor system having a frame and a plurality of arms connected thereto is disclosed. At least one arm is moveable relative to the frame and the relative movement is constrained to a direction along the longitudinal axis of the arm. At least one retractor blade is removably connected to each of the plurality of arms. The blade is fixably rotatable about an axis normal to the longitudinal axis of the arm to which it is connected.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2017Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.Inventors: Edward Karpowicz, Andrew Iott
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Patent number: 9993240Abstract: An implant for repairing tears in soft tissue, such as a meniscus, may include a lead anchoring member and a trailing anchoring member interlaced by a looped strand member. The lead anchoring member and the trailing anchoring member may be formed of a suture material having a diameter greater than a diameter of the strand member. The lead anchoring member and the trailing anchoring member may deform into a suture mass in response to a lead of the strand member being placed under tension to thereby cinch the looped portion. A self-locking locking knot may prevent loosening of the looped portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Inventor: Roy H. Trawick
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Patent number: 9993241Abstract: An apparatus can include a first flexible member having first and second ends and a first body extending therebetween, where the first body defines a first passage portion. A second flexible member can have first and second ends and a second body extending therebetween, where the second body defines second and third passage portions. The first end of the first flexible member passes into and through the second passage portion such that the first end extends outside of the second passage portion, and the second end of the first flexible member passes into and through the third passage portion such that the second end extends outside of the third passage portion. The first and second ends of the second flexible member pass into and through the first passage portion to form a self-locking adjustable flexible member construct.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Biomet Sports Medicine, LLCInventors: Gregory J. Denham, Kevin T. Stone, Zachary Wagner
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Patent number: 9993242Abstract: A suture management device includes a handle defining a first elongate channel. The first elongate channel extends about a longitudinal circumference of the handle. A shaft extends distally from the handle. A suture anchor is coupled to a distal end of the shaft. A suture is configured to extend from the suture anchor proximally along the shaft and into the first elongate channel defined by the handle. A door integrally can be formed with the handle. The suture extends into an area between the door and the handle. The door is configured to maintain tension on the suture when in a closed position.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Wright Medical Technology, Inc.Inventors: Lewis Pearce Branthover, Gary W. Lowery, George Matthew Awtrey, Joseph Ryan Woodard, Jennifer Guilford
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Patent number: 9993243Abstract: A device is described which has an instrument portion secured to a sleeve/cuff portion, where the sleeve/cuff portion is configured to receive a portion of user's finger therein and to radially compress onto the user's finger to hold the instrument portion thereon. The present invention is particularly well suited for use in minimally invasive surgical procedures. The present invention also teaches a method of forming a knot in suture material as well as other techniques for treating patients.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences CorporationInventors: L'Emir Ahmad El-Ayoubi, Mark Dehdashtian, Teodoro S. Jimenez, Yoon H. Kwon, Norma A. Garcia
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Patent number: 9993244Abstract: Improved medical suturing devices, systems, and methods may hold a suture needle at a fixed location relative to a handle of the device, allowing the surgeon to grasp and manipulate the handle of the suturing device to insert the needle through tissues in a manner analogous to use of a standard needle gripper. Cycling the handle from a closed position to an open position and back to the closed position may alternate the device between gripping the needle with a first clamp (for example, along a proximal portion of the needle) to gripping the needle with a second clamp (for example, along a distal portion of the needle) and optionally back to gripping with the first clamp, with the needle often staying at a substantially fixed location relative to the altering device body. Related single-clamp needle grasping devices can be bent plastically by a surgeon, and/or have bodies that are grasped by a hand while a portion of the hand actuates a handle.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Boss Instruments, Ltd., Inc.Inventors: Henry H. Hamilton, Yuri Belman, Alexander Borisvich Zatyuryukin, Patricia A. Moore
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Patent number: 9993245Abstract: The invention relates to tacking devices for use in minimally invasive surgery that have a quantity indicator on a distal end that can be seen through a scope and that show a number of fasteners remaining in the device. A surgeon can watch the delivery of fasteners while simultaneously seeing f a number of fasteners remaining. This allows a hernia mesh to be properly fixed into place without going astray during the delicate initial placement procedure and also for even spacing of the fasteners on the mesh. The patient's post-operative recovery progresses well, and excessive pain is avoided. Methods of the invention include viewing the surgical site via the scope while also viewing the indicator via the scope.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Via Surgical Ltd.Inventors: Arie Levy, Lena Levin, Ofek Levin
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Patent number: 9993246Abstract: Medical device bending devices and methods of use are disclosed herein. An embodiment includes a body, a handle in rotatable relationship with the body, and a head that is coupled with the handle in such a way that when the handle is rotated the head is drawn at least partially into the body and towards the handle. A terminal end of the body that is opposite of the handle and the head cooperate as a vise that bends opposing arms of a surgical staple from an inwardly angled configuration to a parallel configuration (or at angles therebetween) when a crown of the surgical staple is clamped in the vise.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: ENDURE ENTERPRISES, PLLCInventors: Andronica Handie, Daniel Lanois
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Patent number: 9993247Abstract: A device for attaching a sheet-like implant to a target tissue. The device includes a fastener push rod including a first portion, a second portion and a force limiting mechanism operably coupled between the first portion and the second portion. A fastener is carried by the second portion of the fastener push rod. The force limiting mechanism transmits longitudinal movement of the first portion to the second portion while the forces applied to the fastener by the fastener push rod are less than a predetermined value such that longitudinal movement of the first portion of the fastener push rod causes substantially equivalent longitudinal movement of the second portion. The force limiting mechanism allows relative longitudinal motion between the first and second portions while the forces applied to the fastener are equal to or greater than the predetermined value such that the application of undue forces to the fastener is prevented.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Rotation Medical, Inc.Inventor: Charles L. Euteneuer
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Patent number: 9993248Abstract: A device including smart sensors with a local signal processor is disclosed. The device includes an end-effector including at least one sensor and a signal processing component corresponding to the at least one sensor; and a handle configured to receive processed information from the signal processing component. The processed information is generated by the signal processing component at the end-effector based on data received from the at least one sensor at the end-effector.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, LLCInventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason L. Harris, Andrew T. Beckman
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Patent number: 9993249Abstract: The invention relates to a surgical device (100) designed to be inserted into a stump of a hollow organ (40) of a person or animal in order to prepare a circular anastomosis, wherein the device (100) is designed without a stapling unit for producing a surgical stapled scam, wherein the device (100) has an instrument shaft (120) having a handle section (121, 300) and, at the end of time instrument shaft (120) away from the handle section (121, 300), a head section (130) that is or can be coupled to the instrument shaft (120) by means of a detachable coupling (113), wherein the handle section (121, 300) is designed for a user to hold the device (100), wherein the head section (130) has at least one first molded body (109) and a counter-pressure plate (111) of a surgical circular stapling device (160) connected to the first molded body (109), wherein the surgical device has fu least one first molded body (109) and one second molded body (108) between the handle section and the counter-pressure plate, the secondType: GrantFiled: October 26, 2012Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Medizinische Hochschule HannoverInventor: Nikos Emmanouilidis
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Patent number: 9993250Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for protecting rectal anastomosis. The device of the present invention is a double type leakage prevention system composed of micro-villi of a head filter and a triple lumen catheter, and thus minimizes contamination of the anastomotic area from intestinal contents, thereby enabling successful healing of the rectal anastomotic area. The device of the present invention has a main tube with side holes, and thus the intestinal contents, even when passing through the head filter, are sucked into the main tube through the side holes, so that the intestinal contents can be effectively drained while being diverted from the anastomotic area. The device of the present invention is inserted through the anus after surgery and thus involves less risk of additional complications due to the installation of the device, and has advantages of low manufacturing costs due to the simplification of the structure and convenient use and handling.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignees: KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITALInventors: Jun Seok Park, Gyu Seog Choi
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Patent number: 9993251Abstract: Implantable medical devices for connecting tissue layers, such as for connecting a gallbladder and a portion of a gastrointestinal tract to create an anastomosis, include a tubular structure having a plurality of apposition portions, a central region, and a covering material. The devices are endoscopically deployable and may include open cells or undulating edges that facilitate a secure connection between the tissue structures.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Inventors: Daniel H. Todd, Sakthi Sambandam