Patents Issued in February 5, 2019
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Patent number: 10195050Abstract: An intervertebral implant is provided. The intervertebral implant comprises a first component comprising an outer tissue engaging surface and an inner surface. A second component is connected to the first component, and is relatively moveable therefrom. The second component comprises an outer tissue engaging surface and an inner surface. The second component includes an actuator. A third component is disposed for engagement and is movable relative to the first and second components. The third component comprises at least a first ramp and a second ramp axially spaced apart from the first ramp. The actuator is engageable with the third component to effect axial translation of the wedge such that the ramps engage the inner surface of at least one of the first component and the second component to move the components between a first, collapsed configuration and a second, expanded configuration. Methods of use are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Warsaw Othopedic, Inc.Inventors: Stanley T. Palmatier, Keith E. Miller, Anthony J. Melkent, William D. Armstrong
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Patent number: 10195051Abstract: An intervertebral implant includes a body and a plate. The body has an upper surface defining an upper plane and a lower surface defining a lower plane. First and second fastener holes of the plate are configured to retain the heads of first and second fasteners. A portion of each of the shanks of the first and second fasteners extends from the first and second fastener holes beyond the upper plane. The shank portions of the first and second fasteners are curved in a direction away from the upper surface. The third fastener hole is configured to retain the head of the third fastener between the upper and lower planes. A portion of the shank of the third fastener extends from the third fastener hole beyond the lower plane. The shank portion of the third fastener is curved in a direction away from the lower surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Inventor: Darren L. Bergey
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Patent number: 10195052Abstract: An expandable interbody fusion device includes superior and inferior plates that are configured to receive a sequentially inserted stack of expansion members or wafers. The superior and inferior plates include features that at least initially interlock the two plates until the superior plate is dislodged by pressure from the growing wafer stack. The wafers include features on their top and bottom surfaces that interlock the wafers in multiple degrees of freedom so that the wafer stack is not disrupted when the fusion device is fully expanded. Each wafer also includes features that interlock with the inferior plate until the wafer id dislodged by sequential introduction of another wafer.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: SPINE WAVE, INC.Inventors: Michael Landry, Steven J. Wysocki
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Patent number: 10195053Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for near-simultaneous and integrated delivery of bone graft material during the placement of surgical cages or other medical implants in a patient's spine. The integrated fusion cage and graft delivery device according to various embodiments delivers and disperses biologic material through a fusion cage to a disc space and, without withdrawal from the surgical site, may selectably detach the fusion cage for deposit to the same disc space. The integrated fusion cage and graft delivery device is formed such that a hollow tube and plunger selectively and controllably place bone graft material and a fusion cage in or adjacent to the bone graft receiving area. In one embodiment, the integrated fusion cage is an expandable integrated fusion cage.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: SPINAL SURGICAL STRATEGIES, LLCInventors: Jeffrey B. Kleiner, Edward John Grimberg
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Patent number: 10195054Abstract: A system for an acetabular cup alignment includes a mounting element; a first pivot; a first support arm, the first support arm being axially rotatable relative to the first pivot; a second pivot; a second support arm that is attached to the second pivot at an end, the second support arm being axially rotatable relative to the second pivot; a third pivot; a third support arm that is attached to the third pivot at an end, the third support arm being axially rotatable relative to the third pivot; a red laser housing that is provided with at least one red laser light emitter, the red laser housing being attached to the second pivot; and a green laser housing that is provided with at least one green laser light emitter, the green laser housing being attached to the third support arm.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Dartmouth-Hitchcock ClinicInventor: Eric R. Henderson
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Patent number: 10195055Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include instruments and methods for preparing a femur to receive a femoral component of a knee arthroplasty system, with some embodiments configured to enable anterior referencing techniques, posterior referencing techniques, and to facilitate intraoperative switching between anterior and posterior referencing techniques. Other embodiments of the invention include cutting blocks and methods for preparing a femur to receive a knee arthroplasty system femoral component, with some embodiments including cutting blocks that can be used in both an anterior referencing technique and a posterior referencing technique, thereby reducing the number of cutting blocks required to provide an instrument set capable of implanting all available sizes of femoral components with both anterior and posterior referencing techniques.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Sachin P. Budhabhatti, Ravi Bagathur Ramasamy, Tom J. Francis, Christopher Cyko
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Patent number: 10195056Abstract: An orthopedic surgical instrument system that includes an orthopedic surgical instrument adapted to be positioned on a proximal end of a patient's tibia, and a tibial bearing trial assembly, and a tibial evaluation component, and a tibial base trial component configured to be coupled to the orthopedic surgical instrument. A tibial evaluation component includes a base plate and a generally Y-shaped posterior buttress extending upwardly from a superior surface of the base plate, such that the posterior buttress of the insert component is configured to be received in the opening of the tibial bearing trial assembly to prevent rotation of the tibial bearing trial component relative to the tibial base trial component.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: DEPUY IRELAND UNLIMITED COMPANYInventors: Thomas E. Wogoman, Jon M. Edwards, Matthew S. Wallace, Jeremy Oden, Corinna Johanna Klawon, Megan Wallace, Erica Roche
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Patent number: 10195057Abstract: Certain embodiments of the invention relate to increasing the functionality of a transfemoral prosthetic device. In one embodiment, the transfemoral prosthetic device is configured such that the prosthetic knee maintains a load consistent with a healthy knee walking on level ground, while the prosthetic ankle adjusts for the incline or decline. In certain embodiments, adjustments, such as a toe lift function, are automatically performed after about three strides of the transfemoral prosthetic device user and/or when each of the strides has a stride speed of at least about 0.55 meters/second.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Ă–ssur hf.Inventor: Arinbjorn Viggo Clausen
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Patent number: 10195058Abstract: A method of controlling a device relative to one or more objects in an environment of a user employing the device may include receiving a volitional input from the user indicative of a task to be performed relative to an object with the device, receiving object targeting information associated with interaction between the device and the object where the object targeting information is presented in an augmented reality context, integrating the volitional input with the object targeting information to determine a control command to direct the device to interact with the object, and providing the control command to the device.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2014Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: The Johns Hopkins UniversityInventors: Kapil D. Katyal, Brock A. Wester, Matthew S. Johannes, Timothy G. McGee, Andrew J. Harris, Matthew Fifer, Guy Hotson, David McMullen, Robert S. Armiger, R. Jacob Vogelstein, Nathan E. Crone
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Patent number: 10195059Abstract: A composite stent graft has a balloon expandable stent portion, a tubular graft material portion inside or outside of the balloon expandable stent portion and self expanding stents associated with the tubular graft material portion. Part of the balloon expandable stent portion can extend beyond the proximal end of the tubular graft material portion. The tubular graft material can be polytetrafluoroethylene, dacron, polyamide, sub intestinal mucosa or any other suitable biocompatible material. A method of deploying which includes flaring a part of the balloon expandable stent portion is also discussed.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies LLCInventors: David Ernest Hartley, Michael Lawrence-Brown
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Patent number: 10195060Abstract: An endovascular delivery system includes a bifurcated and inflatable prosthesis including a main tubular body having an open end and opposed ipsilateral and contralateral legs defining a graft wall therein between. A tether is disposed securably disposed to the contralateral leg, and the contralateral leg is releasably restrained towards the ipsilateral leg tether to prevent undesirable movement of the contralateral leg. A release wire within the endovascular delivery system releasably retains the tether near the ipsilateral leg.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: TriVascular, Inc.Inventors: Diego Aristizabal, Michael V. Chobotov
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Patent number: 10195061Abstract: A stent covering includes a polymeric tube having a first end, a second end and a length extending therebetween, the polymeric tube including an inner surface defining a lumen and an outer surface. A plurality of tissue ingrowth features are formed on the outer surface of the polymeric tube, at least some of the plurality of tissue ingrowth features including polymeric loops that extend above the outer surface such that, once implanted, tissue can grow between the outer surface and the polymeric loops. A stent may include such a stent covering.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Jason Weiner, Sean P. Fleury, Gary J. Leanna, Seamus F. O'Shaughnessy, Dane T. Seddon
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Patent number: 10195062Abstract: A bidirectional twistable stent is disclosed. The stent comprises a cylinder-shaped stent body having a plurality of axially arranged rows of struts encircling a central lumen and a plurality of flex connectors that connect at least two adjacent rows of struts in such a manner that allows the stent to be twisted clockwise or counter clockwise without causing deformation of any struts in the stent body. Also disclosed are the method of making the stent, method of using the stent, and a kit containing the stent.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Q3 MEDICAL DEVICES LIMITEDInventor: Eric K. Mangiardi
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Patent number: 10195063Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a branched endoprosthesis comprising a graft component and at least one support component. In various embodiments, the branched endoprosthesis comprises a body portion and a plurality of leg portions, wherein the legs are in an aligned configuration for ease of cannulation. In various embodiments, at least one leg is in an open configuration for ease of cannulation. Cannulation methods are also taught.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Inventors: Kyle R. Buckley, Benjamin I. Espen, Douglas C. Helsel, Stanislaw L. Zukowski
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Patent number: 10195064Abstract: The present disclosure includes an endoprosthesis delivery system comprising an elongate member, such as a catheter, an endoprosthesis, a covering member disposed about the endoprosthesis, a tip, and an end cap. The tip and end cap can be integral to each other. The covering member can extend beyond the distal end of the endoprosthesis and onto the end cap. The end cap can comprise a tapered profile, which may assist in retraction of the catheter tip and end cap into an outer sheath. The end cap can further comprise one or more fins.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.Inventors: Bret J. Kilgrow, Larry J. Kovach, Brandon C. Short, Anna F. Timbie
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Patent number: 10195065Abstract: A system for delivering an implant including a handle, a trigger, and an actuation assembly. The actuation assembly can include a planet carrier, at least one planet gear operatively coupled to the planet carrier, a sun gear shaft operatively engaged with the planet gear, a ring gear operatively engaged with the planet gear, a first clutch driver, and a second clutch driver. The actuation assembly can be configured to displace the outer tubular member in the proximal direction a distance (d) relative to the handle and to separately move the inner shaft member distally a distance (x) relative to the handle upon deployment of the trigger from a first position to a second position, and move the inner shaft member proximally a distance (y) relative to the handle with no displacement of the outer tubular member upon return of the trigger from the second position to the first position.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: ABBOTT CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Matthew J. Gillick, Michael L. Green
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Patent number: 10195066Abstract: An inexpensive small-sized screen printing machine having low redundancy and high production efficiency and applicable to a dual conveying-type component mounting machine. A pair of substrate supporting tables juxtaposed in a specific direction is provided. Screen printing is alternately performed by a single print executing section in a common area which can be shared by the two substrate supporting tables. In doing so, when one substrate supporting table located at a print position among the pair of substrate supporting tables starts exiting the print position, the other substrate supporting table starts entry to the print position.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2012Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Coloplast A/SInventor: Niall Behan
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Patent number: 10195067Abstract: An extra-light orthosis includes a woven elastic fabric sleeve, shaped to exert compression forces on a member on either side of and on a joint, and a plate fixed onto an inner face of the sleeve to come into direct contact with the skin on the joint, the plate including an elastic fabric layer onto which a layer of polymer gel is adhered, an annular part shaped to surround the top of a joint protruding area, and a tab extending from an outer edge of the annular part, in an axial direction of the sleeve, the plate adhering to the skin such that, under the effect of the compression forces exerted by the sleeve, when the sleeve is longitudinally stretched, the plate remains stretched and applies tensile forces locally to the skin parallel to the surface of the skin, toward the center of the annular part and of the joint.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2014Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: MILLET INNOVATIONInventors: Odile Grange, Damien Millet
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Patent number: 10195068Abstract: Apparatuses and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention include a rigid or semi-rigid platform having a first-toe side, a fifth-toe side laterally opposite the first-toe side, and a first support structure arranged in a midfoot region of the rigid or semi-rigid platform and laterally extending from the fifth-toe side to a portion of the midfoot region of the rigid or semi-rigid platform. The apparatuses and methods also include a lateral abutment arranged in the forefoot region of the rigid or semi-rigid platform and extending vertically from the rigid or semi-rigid platform near the first-toe side, the lateral abutment configured to laterally support the user's foot at the first toe.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2014Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Inventor: David E. Wiley
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Patent number: 10195069Abstract: An outlet (4) for a pouch (1) in a urostomy appliance is provided. The outlet has a valve with a valve housing (5) and a valve stem (6) that is movable in the longitudinal direction with respect to the valve housing. In a position of the valve stem, the stem can freely rotate with respect to the valve housing, so as to prevent kink and obstructions in a tube connecting the valve with a collecting bag. A urostomy appliance with an outlet is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Coloplast A/SInventors: Erik Lund Jepsen, Kamilla Grove Sund
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Patent number: 10195070Abstract: Methods and apparatus for performing system validation and providing predictive criteria during remote titration of mandibular protrusion are disclosed herein. The effectiveness of oral appliance therapy can possibly be improved by screening obstructive sleep apnea subjects and prospectively identifying subjects suitable for oral appliance therapy. The methods and apparatus for performing system validation on an oral appliance therapy titration system are disclosed. In addition, methods and apparatus for providing predictive criteria during remote titration of mandibular protrusion are disclosed. Further, methods and apparatus for display results of remote titration of mandibular protrusion are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2013Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: ZST HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: John Remmers, Hugo Tam, Terry Macartney, Peter Santosham, Zbigniew Ludwik Topor, Joshua Grosse
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Patent number: 10195071Abstract: Bruxism, which is a human medical condition characterized by clenching of the jaw and/or grinding of teeth, leads to conditions such as severe tooth wear and Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) Disorder. Described herein is a biofeedback device that utilizes the human physiological reflex to open the mouth when the nasal airway is obstructed. The device and method blocks the nasal airway while clenching, but allows nasal respiration while not clenching. Clenching of the jaw and breathing through the mouth cannot happen simultaneously while unconscious.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Inventors: William Karl Vezina, Sue Margaret Vezina
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Patent number: 10195072Abstract: A pneumatic cooling device including a housing having a first end and a second end. A handle extends from an outer surface of the housing. An inlet is positioned at substantially the first end of the housing and is configured to receive a supply of medical grade air into the housing. An outlet is positioned at substantially the second end of the housing and is configured to deliver the supply of medical grade air outside of the housing. A pathway extends through the housing between the inlet and the outlet and is configured to passively move the supply of medical grade air between the inlet and the outlet.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: OHIO STATE INNOVATION FOUNDATIONInventors: James Michael Bott, Jeremy Ryan Hughes
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Patent number: 10195073Abstract: A self-heating warming blanket includes a pliable outer shell forming a liquid impermeable enclosure. A heat generation layer disposed inside the enclosure has a plurality of liquid permeable heater compartments containing an exothermic reactant. The blanket also has a heater activation system including a sealed bladder containing an activator liquid inside the enclosure. An activation strip extends from outside the outer shell into the enclosure. One segment of the strip is an unsealing segment connected to the bladder. Another segment of the strip is a handle segment outside the outer shell. Pulling on the handle segment opens the bladder and releases the activator liquid into the enclosure where at least a portion of it permeates at least one heater compartment and combines with the exothermic reactant contained therein to initiate an exothermic chemical reaction that heats the warming blanket.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2013Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Forever Young International, Inc.Inventor: Daniel L. Young
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Patent number: 10195074Abstract: The present invention provides a disposable body warmer that makes it possible to suppress scattering of moisture contained in the exothermic composition from the outer bag, and thereby ensure a desired exothermic duration of the exothermic composition when the disposable body warmer is kept in an unused state for a long period of time. The disposable body warmer is structured such that an exothermic composition that contains moisture and generates heat by contact with air is enclosed in one or more air-permeable inner bags, which are accommodated in an airtight outer bag. The outer bag comprises two accommodation units that are partitioned from each other and capable of containing the one or more inner bags. The one or more inner bags each comprise at least one enclosure unit capable of enclosing the exothermic composition, and are accommodated in each accommodation unit in a manner such that at least one of the enclosure units is overlaid with another enclosure unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2013Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: KOBAYASHI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Tsuyoshi Igaue
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Patent number: 10195075Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for temperature modification of a patient, or selected regions thereof, including an induced state of hypothermia. The temperature modification is accomplished using an in-dwelling heat exchange catheter within which a fluid heat exchange medium circulates. A heat exchange cassette is attached to the circulatory conduits of the catheter, the heat exchange cassette being sized to engage a cavity within a control unit. The control unit includes a heater/cooler device for providing heated or cooled fluid to a heat exchanger in thermal communication with the fluid heat exchange medium circulating to the heat exchange catheter, a user input device, and a processor connected to receive input from various sensors around the body and the system. A temperature control scheme for ramping the body temperature up or down without overshoot is provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Zoll Corporation, Inc.Inventors: David J. Scott, Ben F. Brian, Lloyd F. Wright, Leo A. Chin, Edward W. Hollmen, Daniel W. Seegars, Mark A. Logan
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Patent number: 10195076Abstract: This application is related to a head-mounted display system and related methods for entertainment, diagnostics, and treatment. The HMD includes various sensors and tools to take physical measurements, perform physical procedures, adjust physical conditions, or manipulate digital data. In some embodiments, the HMD produces different types of sensory stimuli, such as releasing or filtering certain compounds in liquid or aqueous forms in the space near the HMD, or adjusting different physical features of the space near the HMD, such as temperature and flow, to enhance the augmented or virtual reality environment being displayed. In some embodiments, the HMD performs regular monitoring, a specific examination, a surgical intervention, or other care procedures on the eyes automatically or in conjunction with a device of an eye care professional across a computer network to care for the user's eyes in real time or on an ongoing basis.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: EYE LABS, LLCInventor: Sina Fateh
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Patent number: 10195077Abstract: A method, device, or system for treating eye disorders or conditions, comprising restoring or increasing blood flow or blood flow rate in an artery that supplies blood to or in the eye, thereby increasing the amount of nutrient(s) that reaches the eye or a portion thereof. The invention also includes methods, devices, or systems for treating eye disorders or conditions which use reverse flow or retrograde flow structures and systems during the treatment of the eye disease.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2018Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: J.D. Franco & Co., LLCInventors: Michael Calhoun, Jeff Franco, Robert M. Vidlund
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Patent number: 10195078Abstract: Methods and devices for adjusting or configuring the flow rate of an intraocular shunt are provided whereby hypotony can be avoided by increasing the flow rate through the device. In some embodiments, the device is a shunt that can have a first flow that can be modified to a second flow by modifying the shunt, such as by cutting the shunt. Additionally, one or more dissolvable portions can be present to provide an initial flow restriction and subsequent increase in flow over time.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: AqueSys, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Horvath, Laszlo O. Romoda, Brian Hamstrom, Ronald D. Bache, Guenther Grabner, Herbert A. Reitsamer
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Patent number: 10195079Abstract: Methods and devices for adjusting or configuring the flow rate of an intraocular shunt are provided whereby hypotony can be avoided by increasing the flow rate through the device. In some embodiments, the device is a shunt that can have a first flow that can be modified to a second flow by modifying the shunt, such as by cutting the shunt. Additionally, one or more dissolvable portions can be present to provide an initial flow restriction and subsequent increase in flow over time.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: AqueSys, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Horvath, Laszlo O. Romoda, Brian Hamstrom, Ronald D. Bache, Guenther Grabner, Herbert A. Reitsamer
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Patent number: 10195080Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for creating an aqueous flow pathway in the trabecular meshwork, juxtacanalicular trabecular meshwork and Schlemm's canal of an eye for reducing elevated intraocular pressure. Some embodiments described apparatus and methods useful in photoablation of tissues. In some embodiments, a photoablation apparatus is used to perforate a tissue, forming an aperture into a space behind the tissue. Gases formed during a photoablation process can be used to pressurize the space behind the tissue to enhance patency of the space. In some embodiments the tissue is the trabecular meshwork of the eye and a wall of Schlemm's canal, and the space behind the tissue is a portion of the lumen of Schlemm's canal. In some embodiments, the method is useful in the treatment of glaucoma by improving outflow from the anterior chamber of the eye into Schlemm's canal, reducing intraocular pressure.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Inventor: Michael S. Berlin
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Patent number: 10195081Abstract: A method of preventing capsular opacification and fibrosis after cataract extraction and and/or preventing fibrosis around a shunt or stent after glaucoma surgery is disclosed herein. In the cataract procedure, after the cortex and nucleus of the natural lens with the cataract has been removed, a photosensitizer is applied inside the lens capsule, a posterior portion of the lens capsule is irradiated so as to activate cross-linkers and prevent capsular opacification and fibrosis, and an intraocular lens is inserted into the lens capsule. In the glaucoma procedure, a fluid drainage opening is formed and/or a stent is inserted into the eye, a photosensitizer is applied inside an anterior chamber of the eye so that a diffused stream of the photosensitizer travels through the fluid drainage opening or the stent, and the tissue surrounding the fluid drainage opening or the stent is irradiated so as to activate cross-linkers and prevent fibrosis.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Inventor: Gholam A. Peyman
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Patent number: 10195082Abstract: The aim of the invention is to machine a material by application of non-linear radiation. The aim is achieved by modifying the laser radiation emitted by a laser beam source with the aid of a polarization modulator in such a way that laser radiation focused into the material is polarized in a linear fashion, the direction of polarization varying across the cross section of the beam.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Mark Bischoff, Dirk Muehlhoff, Gregor Stobrawa
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Patent number: 10195083Abstract: A method for creating cuts in a transparent material using optical radiation, wherein the optical radiation is focused at a focus in the material and the focus is displaced along a trajectory, wherein a periodic, crossing Lissajous figure is used as trajectory as viewed perpendicular to a main direction of incidence at the radiation.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2012Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AGInventors: Michael Bergt, Gregor Stobrawa
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Patent number: 10195084Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a method for laser cutting treatment of a human eye comprises: determining position information of a pupil center of the eye in relation to a point of minimal corneal thickness in an undeformed state of the eye; locating the point of minimal corneal thickness in a flattened state of the eye, in which the eye is deformed by contact with a patient adapter of a laser device; and aligning a pulse firing pattern for laser radiation pulses of the laser device, based on a position of the located point of minimal corneal thickness and the determined position information. In embodiments, the pulse firing pattern represents, for example, a lenticular or doughnut-shaped intracorneal tissue volume which is to be removed from the cornea of the eye.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Novartis AGInventors: Theo Seiler, Christof Donitzky, Peter Riedel, Jörg Klenke
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Patent number: 10195085Abstract: A laser eye surgery system that has a patient interface between the eye and the laser system relying on suction to hold the interface to the eye. The patient interface may be a liquid-filled interface, with liquid used as a transmission medium for the laser. During a laser procedure various inputs are monitored to detect a leak. The inputs may include a video feed of the eye looking for air bubbles in the liquid medium, the force sensors on the patient interface that detect patient movement, and vacuum sensors directly sensing the level of suction between the patient interface and the eye. The method may include combining three monitoring activities with a Bayesian algorithm that computes the probabilities of an imminent vacuum loss event.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: OPTIMEDICA CORPORATIONInventors: Michael A. Campos, Javier G. Gonzalez, Teresa G. Miller-Gadda
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Patent number: 10195086Abstract: An instrument comprises a shaft assembly, a handpiece body, and a drive assembly. The shaft assembly comprises a plurality of coaxially arranged shafts and a tympanostomy tube. The shaft assembly further includes a flexible section. The shaft assembly extends distally from the handpiece body. The drive assembly is operable to drive the shafts of the shaft assembly in a predetermined sequence to deploy the tympanostomy tube. One or more of the shafts are configured to translate along the flexible section of the shaft assembly as a part of the predetermined sequence to deploy the tympanostomy tube.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2014Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Tusker Medical, Inc.Inventors: Nga K. Van, Mathew D. Clopp, Scott J. Baron, Thomas D. Gross
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Patent number: 10195087Abstract: A non-adhesive absorbent wound dressing (10) is suitable for application about a jointed limb. The wound dressing (10) has a first portion (20) adapted to conform to and wrap around an upper part of the limb, a second portion (30) adapted to conform to and wrap around a lower part of the limb, and a hinge portion (40) between said first portion (20) and said second portion (30), said hinge portion (40) in use lying adjacent to the joint of the limb. The wound dressing (10) also comprises a porous wound contact sheet (80) and a substantially liquid-impermeable backing sheet (90), the wound contact sheet (80) and the backing sheet (90) being bonded (50) together at their periphery and along lines that define a plurality of pockets (60) in both the first portion (20) and the second portion (30), the pockets (60) containing absorbent material (70).Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2010Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Brightwake LimitedInventor: Stephen Cotton
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Patent number: 10195088Abstract: A nose compression device for treating a nosebleed of a person. The device includes a wire frame having a straight middle section and two end sections angled with respect to the middle section. The device also has a body attached to the wire frame, and two nasal sponges attached to the body for insertion into the person's nasal passages. The end sections are wider than the user's nose, and the device is slid upward on the user's face so that the nasal sponges enter the user's nasal passages. The end sections are then bent inward to a pinch position where they pinch the upper lateral side surfaces of the user's nose. The nasal sponges can be pre-treated with medication to further stop the nosebleed. Ice pack may also be provided that extends over the compression device. The combination of compression, medication, and cooling facilitate treatment of the nosebleed.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Emergency Medical Innovation LLCInventors: Elizabeth P. Clayborne, Neal K. Sikka, Romil Patel
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Patent number: 10195089Abstract: A disposable absorbent article comprising a front waist region, a rear waist region, and a crotch region, wherein said absorbent article further comprises at least three discrete elements each comprising at least one visible surface; wherein at least three or more of the visible surfaces comprise an imparted color wherein said colors are color matched. Color matching exists when said colors are contained within a specified CIELab color space volume, have a specified hue difference, or total color difference.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: The Procter & Gamble PlazaInventors: Limin Song, Kesyin Fugger Hsueh, Walter Douglas Daniels, John Joseph Litchholt
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Patent number: 10195090Abstract: An absorbent article includes an absorbent body provided between a liquid permeable topsheet and a backsheet; and embosses formed at both sides of the liquid permeable topsheet, wherein each of the embosses includes a body fluid expelling part emboss formed at an area corresponding to a body fluid expelling part along a longitudinal direction of the absorbent article, and is constituted of a shaped line protruding outward in a width direction of the absorbent article, longitudinal direction embosses formed at front and rear of the body fluid expelling part emboss along the longitudinal direction of the absorbent article, respectively, and inclined embosses extending from outer end portions of the longitudinal direction embosses, respectively, and being inclined toward a center side in the width direction of the absorbent article, and wherein end portions of the right and left inclined embosses are spaced apart from each other in the width direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: DAIO PAPER CORPORATIONInventor: Ryoko Kurihara
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Patent number: 10195091Abstract: Disclosed herein are textured nonwoven webs suitable for use in disposable absorbent articles. The textured nonwoven webs have a generally planar first region and a plurality of integrally formed discrete second regions. The textured nonwoven webs also have at least one composition disposed on at least one of the first region or the plurality of discrete second regions.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Rodrigo Rosati, Jill Orr, John Lee Hammons, John Brian Strube, Shirdish Poondru
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Patent number: 10195092Abstract: A multi-component topsheet for an absorbent article includes a first discrete substrate, a second discrete substrate, and a third discrete substrate, wherein the second discrete substrate is disposed at least partially intermediate the first discrete substrate and the third discrete substrate, wherein the second discrete substrate is joined to the first discrete substrate and the third discrete substrate, wherein the topsheet has a single layer of substrate in about 80% or more of the total area of the topsheet and a dual layer of substrate in about 20% or less of the total area of the topsheet.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Amy Lynn Tally, Theresa Lynn Galie, George Christopher Dobrin, Olaf Erik Alexander Isele, Paul Thomas Weisman, Sharon Ann Young, Mike Purdon
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Patent number: 10195093Abstract: An absorbent article with a three-dimensional film transfer layer having an open lattice structure formed from a single film for improved user properties.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: TREDEGAR FILM PRODUCTS CORPORATIONInventor: Rickey J. Seyler
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Patent number: 10195094Abstract: The invention relates to slit absorbent articles and the use of slits in absorbent materials to provide improved liquid intake rate, flexibility and softness compared to the unmodified material. The absorbent material, including superabsorbent materials, are particularly useful as absorbent cores in disposable absorbent articles such as diapers, incontinent products, sanitary napkins and the like.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: DSG Technology Holdings Ltd.Inventors: Andrew Wright, Patrick King Yu Tsang
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Patent number: 10195095Abstract: Absorbent article suppressing occurrence of malodor after use while preventing a rash on a wearer's skin. The absorbent article includes an absorbent body, and a fumaric acid-supported sheet disposed on a skin surface side of the absorbent body. The fumaric acid-supported sheet is a sheet which supports fumaric acid particles having an average particle diameter of 30 ?m or less, and/or a sheet in which at least a part of constituent fibers is coated with fumaric acid. When being in contact with the body fluid or the like, fumaric acid is not immediately but slowly dissolved so that alkalization at the area around fumaric acid can be prevented over a long period of time. In addition, fumaric acid has an action of inhibiting proliferation of putrefactive bacteria and, therefore, can prevent occurrence of malodor from the absorbent article having absorbed the body fluid or the like.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: LIVEDO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihisa Ota, Motoko Nishida
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Patent number: 10195096Abstract: The feminine hygiene product dispenser comprises an enclosure having a pivoting compartment and a drawer. Interior space of the enclosure is filled with individually wrapped feminine hygiene products such as tampons. The pivoting compartment comprises a concave trough into which a feminine hygiene product may drop when the pivoting compartment is in a closed position. The pivoting compartment may be moved to an open position by pressing down on a lip that extends across the pivoting compartment. When the pivoting compartment is moved to the open position, the feminine hygiene product is passed to the exterior of the enclosure and may be taken by a user. The pivoting compartment is spring loaded and, when released, returns to the closed position where another of the products may drop into the concave trough. The drawer may be used to hold other feminine hygiene products such as pads and panty liners.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Inventor: Juli Sickler
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Patent number: 10195097Abstract: A portable motion control apparatus drives a user's extremity emulating the user's tremor. The driving motion entrains the tremor motion and stretches muscles evoking stretch reflexes in agonist and antagonist muscles used to maintain muscle tone. The motion applies a heightened and coordinated demand on the neuromuscular components of multiple stretch reflex circuits thereby effectuating neuromuscular plasticity; the retention of neuromuscular changes made to meet the heightened demands. Muscle tone is improved and tremor is suppressed for a protracted period.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Inventor: Gaetano Cimo
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Patent number: 10195098Abstract: A spinal decompression harness which hangs from two lines on either side, is attached to a stand. A stool or seat is between the two sides of the stand, and the stand can be attached to a neck of the stool. In this manner, the harness is movable between the two sides of the stand, and one can rotate one or more of the harness, seat, or stand while keeping one's torso abutted to the harness. Their arms can also extend over the harness and be used for writing, typing, and other work, while their spine is decompressed in the harness.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Inventor: Gordon Roeder
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Patent number: 10195099Abstract: Motion of a body segment is assisted when the body segment is moving in a positive power mode but not when it is moving in a negative power mode. When the motion of the body segment is cyclical, for example during walking, assistance to the body segment is switched on and off throughout the cycle to correspond to positive and negative power modes respectively. Energy used to assist the body segment may be harvested from prior motion of the body segment, either in prior cycles and/or when the body segment is moving in a negative power mode. The energy used may also be harvested from other body segments. Assisting motion of a body segment may be used to reduce the metabolic cost of locomotion, or to reduce exertion, when walking, jogging, running or sprinting.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Bionic Power Inc.Inventors: Daniel Loren Hepler, Clive Edward Mullins