Patents Issued in May 21, 2019
  • Patent number: 10292838
    Abstract: A prosthetic arm apparatus including a plurality of segments that provide a user of the prosthetic arm apparatus with substantially the same movement capability and function as a human arm. The segments are connectable to one another and connectable to a prosthetic support apparatus that may be adorned by the user. Each segment of the plurality of segments provides a portion of the movement capability, enabling the plurality of connected segments connected to the harness mount to provide substantially the same movement capability as that lacking in the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: DEKA PRODUCTS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
    Inventors: Christopher O. Evans, N. Christopher Perry, Dirk Albertus van der Merwe, Christopher C. Langenfeld, John Matthew Kerwin, Stewart M. Coulter, Stanley B. Smith, III, Keith David Violette, Steven W. Nickson, Thomas S. Schnellinger, Alexander H. Muller, Gerald Michael Guay
  • Patent number: 10292839
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a switchable terminal device that includes a first digit having a distal end and a proximal end, a second digit moveably attached to the first digit by a first connector such that the second digit reversibly rotates around the first connector and substantially within a plane, and a lever guide having a first portion and a second portion, the lever guide attached to the second digit at least by the first connector passing through the lever guide at an angle about perpendicular to the plane. The switchable terminal device also includes a lever having a proximal end and a distal end with the proximal end of the lever moveably attached to the first portion of the lever guide by a second connector, a third connector attached near the distal end of the first digit, and an elastic cord that includes a first segment having a first end, and a second segment having a second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Invisible Hand Enterprises, LLC
    Inventor: Bradley Delton Veatch
  • Patent number: 10292840
    Abstract: A prosthetic device includes a phalanges portion, a metatarsals portion that is movably coupled to the phalanges portion, an ankle portion that is movably coupled to the metatarsals portion, and a calcaneus portion that is movably coupled to the ankle portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: University of South Florida
    Inventors: Millicent Kay Schlafly, Tyagi Ramakrishnan, Kyle B. Reed
  • Patent number: 10292841
    Abstract: A device with a wall (6) designed to tightly enclose a body part is made of an electrically non-conductive material (9) and has a shape adapted to the body part or adapting thereto as a result of the elasticity of the wall, wherein an inner face (7) of the wall (6) comes to bear on the skin (14) of the body part, and the inner face (7) is provided with at least one electrically conductive portion (4) which, in order to transmit electrical signals from or to the skin (14) of the body part, is arranged all the way through the electrically non-conductive material (9) of the wall (6), permits reliable transmission of electrical signals with a simple design of the liner, by virtue of the fact the electrically conductive portion (4) is covered by the electrically non-conductive material (9) and is connected to at least one conductor (5, 5?) passing through the electrically non-conductive material (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: OTTOBOCK SE & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Lüder Mosler, Bernhard Graimann
  • Patent number: 10292842
    Abstract: An endoluminal support structure includes strut members interconnected by swivel joints to form a series of linked scissor mechanisms. The structure can be remotely actuated to compress or expand its shape by adjusting the scissor joints within a range of motion. In particular, the support structure can be repositioned within the body lumen or retrieved from the lumen. The support structure can be employed to introduce and support a prosthetic valve within a body lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences CardiAQ LLC
    Inventor: Jennifer K. White
  • Patent number: 10292843
    Abstract: An implant, intended to be detachably fixed or crimped on a portion or an outer surface of a catheter for being delivered to an implantation site, includes a longitudinal axis, or an inner space or inner volume longitudinally extending within the implant, and a radial direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, space or volume. The implant includes a first structural element having a first portion, a second structural element having a second portion, and one or more interconnecting elements arranged between the first and the second structural elements. In the implant, the first portion and/or the second portion is/are located less radially as regards the longitudinal axis, inner space, or volume than a third portion of the one or more interconnecting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Venus Medtech (Hangzhou) Inc.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Goetz, Hou-Sen Lim
  • Patent number: 10292844
    Abstract: A tool for compressing a stented prosthesis. The tool includes first and second sets of rollers. The first set includes a plurality of rollers arranged to define a first working region having a first working diameter. The second set includes a plurality of rollers arranged to define a second working region having a second working diameter. The sets of rollers are arranged such that the working regions are axially aligned. The first working diameter is greater than the second working diameter. A stented prosthesis traversing the first working region and then the second working region is forced to a compressed state. In some embodiments, the tool includes one or more intermediate sets of rollers between the first and second sets of rollers, with each of the intermediate sets of rollers defining a working region having a working diameter. The respective working diameters progressively decrease in a downstream direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Medtronic Vascular, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey Orth, Kenny Bruner, Don Tran, Jill Mendelson, James R. Keogh
  • Patent number: 10292845
    Abstract: According to a method for producing a stent which is formed into a tubular body and includes at least one marker formed from a marker housing and a marker insert including: using an indenter having a partially spherical shaped distal end, the distal end coming into contact with the marker insert when the marker insert is pressed with the indenter and is pressure fitted to an opening provided on the marker housing to fix it thereon, a sufficient load can be applied to a radiopaque marker insert when the marker insert is attached to the stent, and further a stent having a radiopaque marker whose marker housing has little damage can be produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryogo Higashi, Tamotsu Shimada
  • Patent number: 10292846
    Abstract: A control system for controlling movement of a stent delivery system, a stent delivery system and a method for controlling movement of a stent delivery system are provided. The control system includes a housing having a chamber formed therein, a first drive at least partially positioned within the housing and operably connected to the first shaft of the delivery system and a second drive at least partially positioned within the housing and operably connected to the second shaft. The control system also includes a pressure controller operably connected to the housing and configured to change the pressure within the chamber. The first drive and the second drives are movable in response to the pressure change within the chamber and movement of the second drive relative to the first drive causes the second shaft to move relative to the first shaft to expand or constrain a stent operably connected thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Kieran Costello
  • Patent number: 10292847
    Abstract: A system for deploying a stent graft includes a stent graft. The stent graft has a tubular structure and includes first and second end stents and at least one stent between the first and second end stents. The system also includes a plurality of constraining mechanisms arranged along the length of the stent graft constraining the stents of the stent graft, and an actuation mechanism configured to release the plurality of constraining mechanisms in order from the first end to the second end of the stent graft and circumferentially sequentially from about the stents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Erik E. Rasmussen, Bent Oehlenschlaeger, Annette Petersen
  • Patent number: 10292848
    Abstract: A highly retractable intravascular stent delivery system, including a tube assembly and a rotation driving assembly. The tube assembly includes an outer tube 5, an intermediate tube 6, and inner tube 7, wherein an intravascular stent 3 and a stent retaining block 4 are provided within the outer tube 5. The rotation driving assembly includes a housing 9, an outer screw 19, and an intermediate screw 14 located within the housing 9, as well as a driving member. The driving member allows two screws to rotate at opposite directions, so as to drive the outer tube 5 to move toward the proximal end, and the intermediate tube 6 pushes the stent retaining block 4 and the intravascular stent 3 to move toward the distal end. The system uses three-lay tube structure and uses driving gear to drive two screws to move at directions opposite to each other, such that the intermediate tube 6 and the outer tube 5 are driven to move to directions opposite to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SUZHOU INNOMED MEDICAL DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoyan Shawn Gong, Xiang Zhou, Guanhua Xue, Weikun Zhou, Pengchong Qiu
  • Patent number: 10292849
    Abstract: A metal balloon catheter having a main tubular body, a metal balloon proximate a distal end of the main tubular body, a central annulus extending along an entire longitudinal aspect of the catheter for accommodating a guidewire therethrough and an inflation annulus adjacent the central annulus which extends along the longitudinal axis of the main tubular body and terminates in fluid flow communication with an inflation chamber of the metal balloon. The metal balloon catheter may be either unitary integral metal catheter in which the main tubular body and the balloon are fabricated of metal, or it may consist of a polymeric main tubular body and a metal balloon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Vactronix Scientific, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher T. Boyle, Steven R. Bailey, Christopher E. Banas, Julio C. Palmaz
  • Patent number: 10292850
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a deployment handle for a prosthesis delivery device and to a delivery device including such a handle. The handle assembly facilitates the controlled release of a prosthesis from the delivery device, while ensuring that various deployment steps are performed in a particular sequential order. The handle assembly comprises a main handle and a second handle which is rotatably and/or longitudinally moveable relative to the main handle. The second handle has an initial position on the main handle such that it prevents access to, and premature manipulation of, a proximal stent release mechanism, until the stent graft has been at least partially unsheathed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Siddharth Vad, Edwin Macatangay, Wen Hong Neoh, Eugene Skelton, Anthony Wright
  • Patent number: 10292851
    Abstract: A self-expanding element delivery apparatus includes a catheter having an inner lumen, a self-expanding element, and a delivery wire disposed within and extending through the inner lumen and the self-expanding element. The self-expanding element has a proximal, distal, and an intermediate portion. The element has anchor members, a compressed configuration fitting within the inner lumen, and an expanded configuration dimensioned larger than the catheter. The delivery wire also has proximal and distal portions, an intermediate portion, a dual function bump member disposed approximate to the intermediate portion, and a pusher bump member disposed approximate to the proximal portion of the delivery wire. A bump member distance between the dual function bump member and the pusher bump member is such that so that only one of the dual function bump member and the pusher bump member can contact one of the anchor members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Lacey Gorochow
  • Patent number: 10292852
    Abstract: A suprapyloric anchor assembly includes an antral cap having at least three stabilizing members configured to reside in an antrum and engage tissue circumscribing a pyloric valve. A duodenal member is configured to reside at least partially in a duodenal bulb, and one or more tethers connect the antral cap to the duodenal member. The tether(s) is/are configured to allow passage of stomach contents through the pyloric valve. Optionally, one or more gastric balloon(s) may attached to the suprapyloric anchor and be inflated with the gastric cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Inventor: J. Mark Provenza
  • Patent number: 10292853
    Abstract: A medical device according to the present invention is to be arranged in a lumen of a gastrointestinal tract. The medical device includes: at least one cylindrical part which is opened at least one end thereof; and at least one attachment part which is arranged on at least one portion of the cylindrical part and is configured such that the medical device is attachable to the lumen of the gastrointestinal tract. The cylindrical part is configured to be arrangeable along at least one portion of the gastrointestinal tract, and at least one portion of a side surface of the cylindrical part is configured to be followable to a shape of an inner wall of the gastrointestinal tract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SOSAIKOUSEIKAI CLINICAL FOUNDATION MATSUNAMI RESEARCH PARK
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Matsunami, Kuniaki Saito, Yushi Matuo, Masao Takemura
  • Patent number: 10292854
    Abstract: Devices and methods can be used for the endoscopic treatment of conditions such as obesity and metabolic diseases. For example, this document provides devices and methods for bypassing portions of the gastrointestinal tract to reduce nutritional uptake. The devices provided herein can be endoscopically implanted such that direct visualization of the entire implant location within the gastrointestinal tract is attained. In some embodiments, the device is distally deployed utilizing a technique that is like that of single or double-balloon enteroscopy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
    Inventor: Barham K. Abu Dayyeh
  • Patent number: 10292855
    Abstract: An orthosis device includes thread-guiding structures, two board portions spacingly arranged and at least one rope body. The thread-guiding structure includes: a base having a recess, the inner wall of the recess having a first restriction structure; a guiding member, including a guiding groove arcuately extending and a second restriction structure, received in the recess and positionably restricted with blocking of the first and second restriction structures, the guiding groove and the inner wall defining a thread-penetrating passage therebetween. Each of the two board portions has at least one base. Each of the at least one rope body is disposed through the thread-penetrating passage and arranged in two of the guiding grooves, wherein an axial movement of the at least one rope body operates to drive the two board portions close to or away from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Inventor: Yu-Chien Wang
  • Patent number: 10292856
    Abstract: A cervical collar has a front component formed from a compressible foam material and defines a recess constituting part of a tracheal opening. The collar also has a height adjustment mechanism secured to the front component which forms a substantially rigid border about the tracheal opening, and a sternum pad formed from a compressible foam material. The height adjustment mechanism selectively connects the front component to the sternum pad at a permanently locked position among a plurality of predefined distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: OSSUR HF
    Inventors: Thora Thorgilsdottir, Arni Thor Ingimundarson
  • Patent number: 10292857
    Abstract: Head-and-neck immobilization devices may include a yoke sized and shaped to contact a person's back and shoulders. Straps may extend from the yoke, the straps configured to secure the yoke to the person's torso. Two head immobilization pads may be sized and shaped to respectively contact opposing sides of the person's head, each of the two head immobilization pads connected to the yoke by a respective selectively rotatable, selectively rigid connection. A majority of the person's head may remain unobstructed by the head-and-neck immobilization device when the two head immobilization pads contact the two opposing sides of the person's head and are rigidly secured in place to immobilize the person's neck and head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Cornerstone Research Group, Inc
    Inventors: Jacob A. Monat, Joseph H. Althaus, Matthew B. Sunday, Jason M. Hermiller, Kelly H. Ridout, Kristin M. Cable
  • Patent number: 10292858
    Abstract: The present invention provides a combination of a splint and a pillow for use in treating and immobilizing a patient. The combination includes a first portion encased in an airtight container and a second portion also encased in an airtight container. The first portion and the second portion are interconnected by an air flow valve having a air flow regulator for controlling airflow between the portions. The first portion may include bean-bag or similar splint and the second portion includes a foam component. The two portions share the same air such that when the first portion is inflated, the second portion is deflated. Wherein, upon opening of the airflow regulator, the air pressure passes between the first portion, deflating the first portion, into the second portion, thus inflating the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: TSWELOPELE LABS, INC.
    Inventors: Theodoor Christian Boezaart, Andre Boezaart
  • Patent number: 10292859
    Abstract: A cooling device for removing heat from subcutaneous lipid-rich cells of a subject having skin is provided. The cooling device includes a plurality of cooling elements movable relative to each other to conform to the contour's of the subject's skin. The cooling elements have a plurality of controllable thermoelectric coolers. The cooling elements can be controlled to provide a time-varying cooling profile in a predetermined sequence, can be controlled to provide a spatial cooling profile in a selected pattern, or can be adjusted to maintain constant process parameters, or can be controlled to provide a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Zeltiq Aesthetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitchell E. Levinson, Jesse N. Rosen, William P. Pennybacker
  • Patent number: 10292860
    Abstract: A device and method used to help reduce aches and pains to joints, muscles, and other body parts; helps to relieve swelling; provide support to joints and muscles. Comprising of a plurality of ridges 120 affixed to a flexible thermal sheet 110. Said ridges 120 produce an acupressure-like massage effect and the flexible thermal sheet 110 absorbs and reradiates heat between the device and skin producing a self-heating effect. The device can be sized for a particular application. A user places the device against his or her body part and device is held in place by a method of user's choice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Inventor: Richard W. Bush
  • Patent number: 10292861
    Abstract: A device configured for use in an ocular surgical procedure is provided. The device, such as a sleeve or a needle, includes a proximal portion, a distal portion including at least one fluid opening formed at a predetermined orientation, and at least one visual marking provided at the proximal portion at a predetermined marking orientation relative to said predetermined orientation. The visual marking or markings provide a visual indication of orientation of the fluid opening when the device is employed in the ocular surgical procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.
    Inventor: James Gerg
  • Patent number: 10292862
    Abstract: An ophthalmic surgical instrument includes a housing and a snare operably coupled to the housing. The snare is configured to transition between an insertion configuration and a deployed configuration, in which the snare is sized to encircle lenticular tissue. The ophthalmic surgical instrument is designed to prevent elevation and/or tilting of the lenticular tissue as the snare transitions toward the insertion configuration to divide the lenticular tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Inventor: Richard Mackool
  • Patent number: 10292863
    Abstract: The patient interface may comprise an axis for alignment with an axis of the eye such as an optical axis of the eye. The interface may comprise a guide to allow the interface to move along the axis with the eye, which can inhibit increases in intraocular pressure when the patient is aligned with the laser. The interface may comprise a lock to hold the patient interface at a location along the axis, which can maintain alignment of the patient with the laser eye surgery system. The interface may comprise a plurality of transducers to measure forces to the eye during surgery. The laser eye surgery system can be configured in one or more of many ways to respond to the measured forces. For example, the system may offset the position of laser beam pulses to increase the accuracy of the placement of the beam pulses on the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: OPTIMEDICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Phillip Gooding, Bruce Robert Woodley
  • Patent number: 10292864
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention encompass systems and methods for generating a vision treatment target for an eye of a patient. Exemplary techniques can involve obtaining a wavefront measurement for the eye of the patient, processing the wavefront measurement, using a low pass filter, to obtain an ocular wavefront, and generating the vision treatment target based on the ocular wavefront. In some cases, the wavefront is processed by applying a Fourier transform to the wavefront measurement to obtain a Fourier spectrum of the wavefront, convolving, in the Fourier domain, the Fourier spectrum of the wavefront and the low pass filter to obtain a Fourier spectrum convolution result, and applying an inverse transform to the convolution result to obtain the ocular wavefront. The ocular wavefront can represent a low pass filtered version of the wavefront measurement, such that high spatial frequency features present in the wavefront measurement are not present in the ocular wavefront.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: AMO Development, LLC
    Inventors: Anatoly Fabrikant, Dimitri Chernyak, Guang-ming Dai, Jayesh Shah
  • Patent number: 10292865
    Abstract: The embodiments include method of nonlinear optical photodynamic therapy of tissue including the steps of providing pulsed infrared laser light for two-photon excited fluorescence tissue exposure, and selectively focusing the pulsed infrared laser light within the tissue at a focal plane to activate a photosensitizing agent to generate free radicals within a highly resolved axial and lateral spatial domain in the tissue. The invention is also directed to an apparatus for performing nonlinear optical photodynamic therapy of tissue including a pulsed infrared laser for providing two-photon excited fluorescence beam tissue exposure, a scanner for selectively and controllably moving the tissue and the beam relative to each other, and optics for selectively focusing the pulsed infrared laser light within the tissue at a point in a focal plane to activate a photosensitizing agent to generate free radicals within a highly resolved axial and lateral spatial domain in the tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: James V. Jester, Tibor Juhasz, Donald J. Brown, Dongyul Chai, Moritz Winkler
  • Patent number: 10292866
    Abstract: A method of transplanting a cornea from a donor to a recipient is disclosed. An undercut is incised within stromal tissue of the donor cornea. Following formation of the undercut, the donor cornea is grafted onto a recipient. The undercut may be formed before or after the cornea is removed from the donor, and is preferably formed by photoaltering the stromal tissue using a laser. A sidecut may also be incised in the donor cornea, thereby forming a corneal flap, prior to grafting. In addition, a corneal section may be excised from the donor cornea using a trephine, a laser, or other appropriate surgical equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: AMO Development, LLC
    Inventor: Ronald M. Kurtz
  • Patent number: 10292867
    Abstract: An ophthalmological laser system for photodisruptive irradiation of ocular tissue, including a crystalline lens or a cornea. The system includes an ultra-short pulse laser, the radiation of which is focusable as illumination light via an illumination beam path including a scanner unit and focusing optics. A control unit is programmed to execute determining irradiation control data for photodisruptions at irradiation points in an interior of the ocular tissue distributed three-dimensionally and non-equidistantly to create at least one predetermined target incision. The laser system then irradiates the ocular tissue according to the determined irradiation control data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Manfred Dick, Matthias Reich, Dieter Grebner
  • Patent number: 10292868
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for treating a glaucomatous eye are provided. An amount of pulsed laser energy is delivered to the pars plana of the eye by a hand-holdable device which comprises a hand-holdable elongate member and a contact member disposed on an end of the elongate member. A contact surface of the contact member is placed in direct contact with the eye so that a reference edge of the contact member aligns with the limbus and a treatment axis defined by the elongate member is angularly offset from the optical axis of the eye. The amount of pulsed laser energy delivered is insufficient to effect therapeutic photocoagulation but is sufficient to increase uveoscleral outflow so as to maintain a reduction from pre-laser treatment intraocular pressure. Amounts of pulsed laser energy will be transmitted to a circumferential series of tissue regions of the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignees: IRIDEX Corporation, National University Hospital (Singapore), National University Hospital (Singapore) PTE LTD
    Inventors: Paul T. K. Chew, David M. Buzawa, Giorgio Dorin
  • Patent number: 10292869
    Abstract: An article having properties allowing same to absorb a body fluid. The article includes at least three paths for the propagation of fluid from a fluid capture zone to at least one storage and/or evaporation area, each fluid propagation path being delimited by a fluid barrier preventing the passage of liquid from one path to another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignees: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, URGO RECHERCHE INNOVATION ET DEVELOPPEMENT
    Inventors: Frédéric Revol-Cavalier, Michel Lamoise, Cyril Marsiquet, Jean-Marc Pernot, Julien Steinbrunn
  • Patent number: 10292870
    Abstract: A wound dressing in the form of a bag enclosing fly maggots, having a porous wall made from plastic, the wall having a membrane made from an open cell polyurethane foam, the pore diameter of which is approximately 0.1 mm to approximately 1 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Biowim Products GmbH
    Inventor: Wilhelm Fleischmann
  • Patent number: 10292871
    Abstract: A wound care system comprising a single-layer arrangement of mutually parallel capillary membranes with a porous, semi-permeable wall, a lumen and at least one open end. The capillary membranes are connected to one another by connection elements to form a mat and are held at a distance from one another by the connection elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Carsten Meixner, Haythem Korbi
  • Patent number: 10292872
    Abstract: A device or structure for fitting on the bottom of an equine leg cast to protect the cast from abrasion and wear, to aid in keeping the cast clean and, in one aspect, to provide a shaped molded rocker bottom that allows the leg cast hoof to rock forward or back, allowing the equine to find a naturally comfortable position. A method of applying the device to an equine leg cast. The device or structure consist, in general, of a solid member having a top face and a bottom face and having malleable straps attached to the solid member and extending from at least two sides of the solid member, which straps are made of material and sized to be capable of being bent or folded upward in a plane perpendicular to the top face of the solid member to attach to an equine leg cast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Inventor: Monty L. Ruetenik
  • Patent number: 10292873
    Abstract: A sanitary napkin for retention of vulvar discharge includes a shell that defines an interior space. The shell is flexible and liquid impermeable. A ridge, which defines a canal, extends from the front of the shell around a perimeter of an opening. An absorbent is positioned in the interior space and the canal. A pair of fasteners is coupled singly to and extends from opposing edges of the shell. A first improvement is the liquid impermeability of the front of the shell, wherein vulvar discharge is effectively retained within the interior space of the shell. A second improvement is the ridge that is positioned on the front. The shell is sealably positionable over the vulva of the user such that vulvar discharge is directed to the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Inventor: Mezi Koulai
  • Patent number: 10292874
    Abstract: A dual-mode high-waist disposable absorbent pant with foldover waist features is disclosed. The pant may include a laterally extending folding region disposed longitudinally between the waist opening edge and the front and/or rear ends of an absorbent core structure; the folding region may include a first web structure. The pant may also include a waistband region disposed longitudinally between the waist opening edge and the folding region; the waistband region may include a second web structure and one or a plurality of laterally extending, pre-strained elastic member(s) disposed between a first pair of layers. The second web structure may differ in configuration from the first web structure. The longitudinal dimension between the waist opening edge of the pant and the leg opening edges may be at least 30 percent of the overall length of the pant when in an open, fully extended and flattened condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Sarah Marie Wade, Masaharu Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 10292875
    Abstract: An absorbent article comprising a topsheet, a backsheet, an absorbent core comprising channels disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet, and a printed adhesive layer disposed between the topsheet and the absorbent core such that the printed adhesive layer is visible through the topsheet. At least a portion of the adhesive layer forms a pattern of one or more pairs of contoured lines that run lengthwise in the machine direction of the absorbent article, each pair being symmetric to its compliment across an axis of the absorbent article drawn in the machine direction and at the center of its width. The distance between the innermost pair of contoured lines is from about 15 mm to about 25 mm or the amount of adhesive comprising the printed adhesive layer is such that the pattern coverage with the adhesive is from about 15% to about 30%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Ann Cecilia Tapp, Sarah Ann Sanborn, Rachael Eden Walther, Theodore Cory Fites, John Andrew Strasemeier
  • Patent number: 10292876
    Abstract: A pull-on disposable diaper includes a front side portion; a back side portion; a crotch portion; a waist opening; and a pair of leg openings. An edge portion of the waist opening of the front side portion includes a recessed portion that is recessed in the lengthwise direction toward the crotch portion with respect to an edge portion of the waist opening of the back side portion. A tape member is fixed on a non-skin side surface of the back side portion so as to be extendable toward the waist opening in the lengthwise direction, the tape member being used for fixing the diaper in a small state in the lengthwise direction when the diaper is disposed of. The recessed portion is provided at a position corresponding to the tape member in the lateral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Yoshioka, Jun Fukasawa, Noriko Nagase
  • Patent number: 10292877
    Abstract: A patient transport apparatus for moving a patient from one location to another. The patient transport apparatus comprises a suspension system to limit discomfort to the patient when the patient transport apparatus moves over disturbances in floor surfaces. The suspension system comprises suspension devices such as a spring and/or a damper. The suspension system is operable in an energy-absorbing mode in which the suspension system absorbs energy as wheels move over the disturbances during transport or a lockout mode in which the suspension system is relatively more rigid as compared to the energy-absorbing mode. A control system operates to place the suspension system in one of the modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: STRYKER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jerald A. Trepanier, Kevin M. Patmore, Anish Paul, William D. Childs, Kurosh Nahavandi, Clifford E. Lambarth
  • Patent number: 10292878
    Abstract: This present invention describes a system for fixation of a flexible stretcher to a hard stretcher, comprising multiple belts made of flexible material affixed via a multiplicity of strap adjusters and bars to the flexible stretcher, and a flexible and adjustable cross connection belt, which, because of their disposition and technical characteristics, enable fixation of the hard stretcher, together with a victim individual, to the body of the flexible stretcher, making the movement of the individual from one stretcher to another unnecessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Inventor: Ricardo Perez
  • Patent number: 10292879
    Abstract: The embodiments described and claimed herein are improved wheelchair passenger securement systems and stations. In particular, one embodiment described and claimed herein includes a mobility aid restraint, a bumper, and a tensioning mechanism, wherein the tensioning mechanism is adapted to pre-tension the mobility aid restraint whereby the wheelchair restraint exerts a force on the mobility aid in a direction at least partly toward the bumper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Valeda Company, LLC
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Girardin, Joe Esteireiro
  • Patent number: 10292880
    Abstract: The present disclosure illustrates a transport aid which can be quickly assembled, disassembled, and adjusted in width, and includes two support members, a chair seat and two horizontal assembly frames, wherein the horizontal assembly frames are disposed on left and right sides of the chair seat, respectively, and each includes a first quick connector assembled to a corresponding second quick connector of the chair seat, and ends of the two horizontal assembly frames are pivotally connected to corresponding support members, respectively, and other ends of the two horizontal assembly frames are assembled to each other through a quick packing connector for forming a horizontal bottom support member. As a result, the transport aid can be quickly disassembled into members for easy carry; furthermore, these members can be quickly assembled to a transport aid as a wheelchair, so that any person with disability can sit thereon and easily and comfortably be transported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SOLID FOCUS INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shao-Tuan Chang
  • Patent number: 10292881
    Abstract: Dynamic support surface technologies configure a person support surface in various ways, including configurations in which the person support surface at least temporarily assumes an apnea therapy position, such as a progressive lateral tilt or a ramp-like position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Ribble, Michael S. Hood, Charles A. Howell, Eric D. Agdeppa
  • Patent number: 10292882
    Abstract: A motor-driving mechanism includes a motor and a lifting lever. The lifting lever is rotatable between a lifted position and a lowered position, and includes first section and a second section. The first section is pivotably connected to the motor. The second section is connected to the first section in such a way that the first section and the second section as a whole are drivable by the motor to rotate in a first direction from the lowered position toward the lifted position, and the first section is drivable by the motor to rotate relative to the second section in a second direction from the lowered position toward a third position while the second section remains at the lowered position, the second direction being opposite to the first direction. A motor-driven bed utilizing the motor-driving mechanism is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignees: Jiaxing Sino Hardware Manufacturing Company Limited, Sino International Group Limited
    Inventor: Klaus Bellingroth
  • Patent number: 10292883
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are described for mounting medical equipment on IV poles, bed rails and other supporting structures in medical facilities including operating rooms and critical care sections. A system including a mounting hanger and corresponding equipment housing is disclosed that allows quick mounting and dismounting of equipment from a supporting structure. The novel structural design of mounting hanger including a symmetrical t-slot feature and a plunger lock allows a piece of equipment to be mounted on a supporting structure in multiple orientations as per the requirement which allows a user to optimize the placement of equipment in the medical environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Cadwell Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: David Lee Jepsen, Richard A. Villarreal
  • Patent number: 10292884
    Abstract: A support structure device is configured to assist a human patient to rise. The support structure includes a tube bent into a shape described by way of a reference frustum such as a four-sided truncated pyramid. Each side of a top rectangular perimeter of the frustum is shorter than a corresponding side of the bottom rectangular perimeter, and each parallel side of a first trapezoidal perimeter of the frustum is shorter than a corresponding parallel side of a second trapezoidal perimeter. The reference frustum has a height between 10 and 18 inches, the top rectangular perimeter has a length between 10 and 16 inches and a width between 6 and 14 inches, and the bottom rectangular perimeter has a length between 12 and 18 inches and a width between 8 and 16 inches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Lucent Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Fred E. Silverstein, Curtis S. King, Robert N. Golden, Steve Vincent
  • Patent number: 10292885
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a multifunctional critical care system and an operation method thereof. A lifting frame disposed on the bed body, a bed plate and a plurality of lifting bands are disposed at the lifting frame, and a tensioning mechanism is disposed on the lifting frame; The bed plate comprises vertical elevating mechanisms, a transverse telescopic mechanism disposed between the vertical elevating mechanisms; the lifting frame is connected to a tilting mechanism; fastening the lifting bands to lifting bands fastening devices, actuating the vertical elevating power mechanisms; actuating the transverse telescopic power mechanism; actuating the tensioning power mechanism; and actuating the transmission power mechanism. The nursing care mechanism facilitates replacement of bed sheets, ventilating the back, letting the patient laid on their left or right side, cleaning and wiping the body, defecation; and combines the functions of a nursing equipment, a sickbed, and a wheelchair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignees: SICHUAN XINGZHI ZHIHUI INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OPERATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chunping Tong
  • Patent number: 10292886
    Abstract: A thermotherapy device (10), for new-born and premature babies, has a bed substructure (30) and an incubator chamber (20) with a positioning aid (50) in the incubator chamber (20). The positioning aid (50) is a flexible sheet fixed to a holding structure (60). The positioning aid (50) can be stretched out by the holding structure (60). The width to which the positioning aid (50) can be stretched out is adjustable by adjusting a width of the holding structure (60). The positioning aid (50) can be pulled and/or pivoted out of the incubator chamber (20) with the aid of the holding structure (60). The holding structure (60) is movably mounted in the bed substructure. The holding structure (60) has at least two pivotable holding arms (61). The two holding arms (61) form a holding arm pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: DRÄGERWERK AG & CO. KGaA
    Inventors: Anja Wilden, Philip Möhring, Andreas Nandzik, Markus Hampe
  • Patent number: 10292887
    Abstract: A motorized joint positioner includes a first holder configured for a first portion of a patient's anatomy to rest thereon, and a second holder configured for a second portion of the patient's anatomy to rest thereon. The joint positioner further includes a first robotic arm coupled to the first holder, and a second robotic arm coupled to the second holder. At least one of the first and second robotic arms comprises at least two joints providing movement of the corresponding first or second holder in at least two degrees of freedom. At least one of the first and second robotic arms includes an actuator controllable to position the corresponding first or second holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventor: Hyosig Kang