Patents Issued in December 8, 2020
  • Patent number: 10856862
    Abstract: A method for treating reflux esophagitis includes orally inserting an endoscope into a digestive canal; an esophageal side opening forming an esophageal side opening in a mucosal layer in a part of an esophagus; a tunnel forming step of introducing the endoscope between the mucosal and a muscle layer from the esophageal side opening forming a tunnel; an abdominal cavity side opening passing from the tunnel to an abdominal cavity closer to an anus; a protrusion step of a distal end portion of the endoscope passing through the tunnel from the abdominal cavity side opening into the abdominal cavity; and a stenosis forming a wrap on a part of an outer circumference of the digestive canal near the diaphragm closer to the anus using a medical instrument inserted into a channel of the endoscope in the abdominal cavity to form a local stenosis inside the digestive canal forming a wrap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Haruhiro Inoue
  • Patent number: 10856863
    Abstract: The first fixing member and the second fixing member are arranged such that the first clamping surface and the second clamping surface face each other in an axis line direction of the insertion portion. When the manipulation portion is manipulated and the insertion portion and manipulation member is rotated relatively, the first clamping surface and the second clamping surface are configured to approach by screw-fitting with the second fixing member and the first fixing member. When a predetermined manipulation is performed to the manipulation portion, a coupling between the manipulation member and the other is configured to be released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayuki Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 10856864
    Abstract: A needle cartridge for a surgical suturing instrument includes a cartridge body, a track extending through the cartridge body and defining a circular path, an arcuate needle movably positioned within the track, and a suture thread extending from the arcuate needle. A needle driver operatively connects to the cartridge body and the arcuate needle. The needle driver is configured to orbit the arcuate needle along the circular path. A needle cover is secured to the cartridge body. A clearance channel extends through at least a portion of the cartridge body along the track in communication with the track such that the clearance channel at least partially defines a suture path. The suture path is configured to receive the suture thread extending from the trailing end of the arcuate needle as the arcuate needle moves along the circular path thereby inhibiting the suture thread from obstructing movement of the arcuate needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Ethicon LLC
    Inventor: Andrew C. Deck
  • Patent number: 10856865
    Abstract: A fastening system includes first and second fastening members and a penetrating member. The first fastening member includes a backspan and a set of lobes that extend from the backspan. The second fastening member includes a backspan and a set of lobes that extend from the backspan. The penetrating member includes a first body which is substantially planar, a set of teeth, and a first trailing wall that extends from the first body orthogonal to a plane that is defined by the first body. The set of teeth extend from a leading edge of the first body which is opposite a trailing edge of the first body and are configured to pierce and spread tissue over the set of lobes of the first fastening member. The first trailing wall is configured to support the backspan of the first fastening member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventor: Anne Nelson
  • Patent number: 10856866
    Abstract: A piece of buttress material and an end-effector of a surgical instrument including features which can aid a surgeon in properly and quickly attaching the piece of buttress material to the end-effector. In various embodiments, a piece of buttress material can include retention features which can be engaged with portions of an end-effector to releasably retain the piece of buttress material to at least a portion of the end-effector. Similarly, an end-effector can include features configured to engage portions of a piece of buttress material to releasably retain the piece of buttress material to the end-effector. In at least one embodiment, more than one piece of buttress material can be releasably retained to an end-effector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Ethicon LLC
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jeffrey S. Swayze, Thomas W. Huitema, Jerome R. Morgan
  • Patent number: 10856867
    Abstract: A surgical instrument comprising a closure drive, a firing drive, and a lockout is disclosed. The lockout prevents the firing drive from being actuated until the closure drive has been sufficiently actuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Ethicon LLC
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason L. Harris, Jerome R. Morgan, Christopher C. Miller, Brian Dinardo
  • Patent number: 10856868
    Abstract: A surgical instrument comprising a first jaw, a second jaw, and a firing member is disclosed. The firing member comprises one or more cams configured to position the first jaw relative to the second jaw. The cams are configured to reduce the strain experienced by the cams, the firing member, and the first and second jaws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Ethicon LLC
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason L. Harris, Gregory J. Bakos
  • Patent number: 10856869
    Abstract: A surgical stapling anvil is disclosed comprising an anvil body comprising a longitudinal slot configured to receive a firing member therethrough and a tissue-facing surface comprising a plurality of staple-forming pockets defined therein. The anvil further comprises an anvil cap and a plurality of welds welding the anvil cap and the anvil body together. The welds comprise a shallow-welded zone comprising a first weld depth and a deep-welded zone comprising a second weld depth which is different than the first weld depth, wherein the shallow-welded zone and the deep-welded zone are configured to increase overall weld depth of the plurality of welds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Ethicon LLC
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jerome R. Morgan, Jason L. Harris, Gregory J. Bakos
  • Patent number: 10856870
    Abstract: A surgical instrument that includes a surgical end effector that is articulatable relative to a shaft between a home position and a maximum articulated position. A motor operably interfaces with the surgical end effector to move the end effector between the home position and the maximum articulated position. The motor is configured to operate at a first motor speed to articulate the end effector from the home position to a first articulated position between the home position and the maximum articulated position and to operate at a second motor speed to articulate the surgical end effector from the first articulated position to the maximum articulated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Ethicon LLC
    Inventors: Jason L. Harris, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Chester O. Baxter, III
  • Patent number: 10856871
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses for a surgical handle assembly. An example apparatus includes a toothed rack, a movable handle member, a driving pawl configured to engage the toothed rack and advance the toothed rack in a linear distal direction in response to a movable handle member advancing in a proximal direction and a latch configured to engage the toothed rack and advance the toothed rack in a linear proximal direction in response to the movable handle member advancing in a distal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Lexington Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Gonen Somekh, Anton Agafonov, Andrew Marecki
  • Patent number: 10856872
    Abstract: A surgical fastener deployment system may include a plurality of coil fasteners having a head and coil body. In one embodiment, the head may be larger in diameter than the coil body. The fasteners may also be mounted on a guide rod or mandrel that passes through a through-hole of the head and the coil body. The shaft may also include a guiding element that contacts and stabilizes the coil body as the fastener is deployed from a distal end of the shaft. When the head approaches and contacts the guiding element, the guiding element may deflect to permit the head to pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: C.R. Bard, Inc.
    Inventors: Saurav V. Gupta, Kevin J. Ranucci, Derek Leatzow, Keith A. Grider
  • Patent number: 10856873
    Abstract: A medical apparatus for joining body lumens in a living body includes a puncture member having a lumen, a distal opening portion and a needle tip at the distal end of the lumen. The needle tip can puncture a tube wall of the body lumen to form a puncture site. The medical apparatus includes a tubular member in the lumen of the puncture member that expands radially outward and contracts radially inward and a plunger movable relative to the puncture member to release the tubular member from the distal opening portion of the puncture member. The tubular member expands to be fixed to the puncture site when the tubular member is released from the distal opening portion of the puncture member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Ishii, Satoshi Sawada, Hideaki Shibata
  • Patent number: 10856874
    Abstract: A sleeve for enforcing the end of a hollow organ so that it can be connected with a further end of a hollow organ, the sleeve comprising a cylindrical shape and being configured to be pushed over the end of the hollow organ and for turning-over the end of the hollow organ projecting from the sleeve around an end of the sleeve, wherein the sleeve has an adjustable diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center
    Inventors: Falah Redha, Essam Al Shail
  • Patent number: 10856875
    Abstract: A circular stapler apparatus for stapling tissue has a circular stapling head operable to drive staples toward an anvil to form the staples in a circular array. The anvil includes an anvil head, a proximal shaft extending proximally from the anvil head and having a proximal end disposed in a first plane, and a first pivot connecting the anvil head to the proximal shaft. The first pivot is operable to be disposed in a second plane that is laterally offset from the first plane. The anvil is configured to rotate via movement through multiple pivot points. The anvil may be configured to rotate to a position in which a portion of the anvil head is disposed below the first pivot and between the first pivot and the proximal shaft such that the anvil head is acutely angled with respect to a longitudinal axis of the proximal shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Ethicon LLC
    Inventors: Charles J. Scheib, Steven G. Hall, Frederick E. Shelton, IV
  • Patent number: 10856876
    Abstract: A flow control apparatus for controlling a flow of fluid and/or other matter in a lumen formed by a tissue wall of a patient's organ. The apparatus comprises a control device adapted to control contraction of the tissue wall to influence the flow in the lumen. The apparatus further comprises an implantable constriction device adapted to gently and simultaneously constrict a series of wall portions comprising three or more wall portions of the tissue wall to influence the flow in the lumen, wherein the constriction device gently constricts the series of wall portions by constricting the series of wall portions to a constricted state in which the blood circulation in the constricted series of wall portions is substantially unrestricted and the flow in the lumen is at least restricted, and an implantable energized stimulation device adapted to individually and independently stimulate a selected wall portion of the series of wall portions, comprising three or more wall portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventor: Peter Forsell
  • Patent number: 10856877
    Abstract: Described herein are delivery devices and systems for delivering a detachable medical device and various associated methods of using such devices and systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark S. Smith, James M. Anderson, David Raab
  • Patent number: 10856878
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for delivering and mechanically detaching embolic coils. The systems disclosed herein comprise a mechanical detachment mechanism to intravascularly release an embolic coil. The methods disclosed herein comprise a various triggering mechanisms to detach embolic coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SPARTAN MICRO, INC.
    Inventors: Eric P. Stoppenhagen, Mark Dias
  • Patent number: 10856879
    Abstract: An apparatus for treating an aneurysm in a blood vessel includes a wire to be advanced within a tube and an occlusion element disposed on the wire. The occlusion element includes a cover and an inner anchoring member. The occlusion element is configured to fit within the tube and slide out of an opening at a distal end of the tube in response to movement of the wire. The cover is configured to expand to an expanded configuration when advanced into the aneurysm, wherein the cover has a diameter that is greater than the diameter of a neck portion of the aneurysm and is configured such that a first portion of the cover contacts an interior surface of the aneurysm and a second portion covers the neck portion of the aneurysm. The inner anchoring member extends from the cover portion and is configured to contact the interior surface of the aneurysm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Galaxy Therapeutics Inc.
    Inventors: Aamir Badruddin, Edgard Luiz Ramos Pereira, Thomas J Wolfe, Osama O. Zaidat
  • Patent number: 10856880
    Abstract: A vaso-occlusive system configured for embolizing an aneurysm, includes an implantable vaso-occlusive device coupled to a distal end of an elongate pusher and having a collapsed delivery configuration and an expanded, deployed configuration, wherein the vaso-occlusive device includes a proximal end configured to seat against the aneurysm adjacent the neck of the aneurysm, a distal end configured to extend in the sac and away from the neck of the aneurysm, and a central longitudinal axis, and wherein the vaso-occlusive device is configured to be releasably coupled to the distal end of the pusher at a releasable joint including either one or both of the configurations in the list consisting of: (1) the distal end of the pusher extends from the releasable joint at an angle formed with the central longitudinal axis of between about 30 degrees and about 120 degrees, and (2) the releasable joint is coupled at a location on the proximal end of the vaso-occlusive device that is radially offset from the central longit
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Galaxy Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Aamir Badruddin, Osama O. Zaidat, Brett Follmer, Edgard Luiz Ramos Pereira, Arturo Rosqueta, Thomas J. Wolfe
  • Patent number: 10856881
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a system for delivering an implantable device inside a body cavity includes: 1) a core cannula; 2) an access sheath; 3) an injection apparatus for filling the implantable device with one or more fluids; and 4) expanding members operatively connected to the core cannula for preventing the core cannula from advancing through a body orifice once the core cannula and expanding members exist the access sheath. According to particular embodiments, a distal end of the core cannula is pre-attached to the implantable device through a device locking member. In one or more embodiments, upon assessment, an injection apparatus is removed using an injection apparatus handle, the implantable device is detached from the core cannula via a device deployment handle (to be implanted), and the access sheath is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: FLOW MEDTECH, INC.
    Inventors: Arnab Ranjan Chakraborty, Christine Tu-Anh Hang
  • Patent number: 10856882
    Abstract: A catheter includes a detachable tip assembly that when detached from the catheter may be used to occlude a body lumen or vessel. The detachable distal tip assembly may include an inflatable balloon disposed over and secured to a tubular member. The inflatable balloon may be in fluid communication within an inflation lumen extending within the catheter body. Upon reaching a target site within a body lumen or vessel, the detachable distal tip assembly may be released from the distal end of the catheter upon inflation of the balloon to a predetermined size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Gray, Nathan Zamarripa
  • Patent number: 10856883
    Abstract: A medical clip cartridge (1) for connecting a medical clip (22) to a line member (25) having a connection part (31) on a distal part thereof, comprising an insertion port (2) for inserting a line member (25), an insertion path (3) extending distally from the insertion port (2), and a storing part (4) for storing a clip (22), that is connected to a distal end of the insertion path (3), wherein the insertion path (3) has a protrusion (5) projecting from an inner surface of the insertion path, and the protrusion (5) has a part whose top surface widens toward a distal end thereof and whose height from the inner surface of the insertion path increases toward the distal end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naotake Maekubo
  • Patent number: 10856884
    Abstract: A wearable system comprises tourniquets. Each of the tourniquets comprises an inflatable chamber, and is configured to occlude blood flow in an artery of a wearer. The wearable system comprises compressed gas sources in fluid communication with the inflatable chamber of the tourniquets. The wearable system comprises valves. Each of the valves comprises an input in fluid communication with one of the compressed gas sources, and an output in fluid communication with the inflatable chamber of one of the tourniquets. The wearable system comprises fixed pressure regulators. Each of the fixed pressure regulators is in fluid communication with the valves, and is configured to regulate a pressure of the compressed gases delivered to the inflatable chamber of at least one of the tourniquets. The wearable system comprises switches. Each of the switches is configured to operate one of the valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventor: Johnny Xavier Carabajal
  • Patent number: 10856885
    Abstract: A blade coupling mechanism for a hand-held surgical cutting instrument includes a first coupling member including a first blade-contacting surface and a first outer perimeter sidewall adjacent the first blade contacting surface. It also includes a second coupling member including a second blade-contacting surface facing the first blade-contacting surface of the first coupling member. The second coupling member includes a second outer perimeter sidewall adjacent the second blade contacting surface. The second blade-contacting surface and the second outer perimeter sidewall meet to define an outer edge. The second coupling member including a bore through the second blade contacting surface. The bore and the second blade contacting surface meeting to define an inner edge. Blade-engaging protrusions project from at least one of the first and second blade-contacting surfaces. The protrusions are spaced closer to the outer edge than the inner edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Medtronic PS Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher M. Boykin, Durrell Tidwell
  • Patent number: 10856886
    Abstract: Guides, systems, and methods for maintaining, correcting and/or fusing joint deformities are disclosed. The guide system including a cut guide, an alignment guide, and at least one directional wire. The cut guide including a base portion, an extension member extending away from a bottom surface of the base portion, and at least one arm extending away from an end of the base portion. The alignment guide, including a base portion, a first extension member extending away from a bottom surface of the base portion in a first direction, and a second extension member extending away from the bottom surface of the base portion in a second direction. Methods of using a guide system for maintaining, correcting and/or fusing joint deformities are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Paragon 28, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert Dacosta, Laura Zagrocki Brinker, Randy Allard
  • Patent number: 10856887
    Abstract: A surgery device for operating on the human knee. The surgery device comprises a guide component and a tensioning component. The guide component comprises a base body having a base surface for disposing on a tibial end face and comprises guide elements extending from the base surface. The tensioning component is set up for tensioning the guide component such that the ligaments of the knee are uniformly tensioned in the flexed state of the knee. A truing and drilling component for truing and drilling a femoral end face can be pushed onto the guide elements and fixed at various positions relative to the base surface. The risk of injury and misuse during the surgery on a human knee is reduced and the duration of surgery is shortened by means of the surgery device according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventor: Carsten Boos
  • Patent number: 10856888
    Abstract: A system, method and/or reamer driver device provides a fully closed tube which prevents the invasion of debris and minimizes abrasion of soft tissue during use. The reamer device includes a minimum number of component assemblies, so as to permit easy replacement and minimize wear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Incipio Devices SA
    Inventors: Fabrice Chenaux, André Léchot, Thierry Gentil
  • Patent number: 10856889
    Abstract: A flexible drill bit comprising: a proximal shaft portion for connecting to a source of turning; a distal cutting tip portion for boring into a material; and an intermediate shaft portion extending between the proximal shaft portion and the distal cutting tip portion, the intermediate shaft portion being characterized by (i) sufficient longitudinal flexibility so as to permit the flexible drill bit to be passed along a curve, and (ii) sufficient torsional strength to permit the flexible drill bit to bore into the material. Apparatus for drilling a hole in material, the apparatus comprising: an angled drill guide comprising a curved distal section, a less-curved proximal section, and a lumen extending therebetween, wherein the less-curved proximal section comprises a flat extending therealong for reducing the effective diameter of the less-curved proximal section so as to minimize interference between the angled drill guide and the side wall of an access cannula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Stryker Puerto Rico Limited
    Inventors: J. Brook Burley, Jeremy Graul
  • Patent number: 10856890
    Abstract: Examples of robotically controlled planar cutting systems and methods for controlling cutting systems to prepare bone tissue in surgical procedures, are generally described herein. Applicable surgical procedures for the robotically controlled cutting systems and methods include procedures involving the preparation (e.g., removal, surfacing) of bone tissue, such as is performed in knee arthroplasties. In an example, a robotically controlled planar cutting system can include a housing, a cutting element disposed in the housing, and a cutting control mechanism in communication with a robotic controller to control operation of the cutting element to machine a planar surface. The cutting element can be exposed and retracted relative to the housing and can include a plurality of cutting implements arranged to machine the planar surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: ORTHOSOFT ULC
    Inventors: Pierre Couture, Louis-Philippe Amiot
  • Patent number: 10856891
    Abstract: An orthopaedic surgical instrument is provided having a first customized patient-specific surgical instrument and a second customized patient-specific surgical instrument configured to be removably coupled to the first customized patient-specific surgical instrument. The second customized patient-specific surgical instrument includes a body positioned in a gap defined between posteriorly-extending arms of the first customized patient-specific surgical instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Rhodes, Shawnoah S. Pollock
  • Patent number: 10856892
    Abstract: Some of the present methods include, and some embodiments of the present systems are configured for gaining access to a patient's vessel by way of the vessel (i.e. from the inside out). Some embodiments facilitate gaining access to an occluded vessel, where part of the access path is through the occlusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Bluegrass Vascular Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: John Gurley
  • Patent number: 10856893
    Abstract: Medical devices and method for making and using medical devices are disclosed. An example method for treating a blood vessel may include disposing a medical device within the blood vessel at a position adjacent to a lesion. The medical device may include an elongate shaft having a distal end region, a balloon coupled to the distal end region, and a cavitation member disposed within the balloon. The method may also include inflating the balloon to a first pressure, activating the cavitation member, and inflating the balloon to a second pressure greater than the first pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Joel T. Eggert, Douglas Dean Pagoria, Raymond Gessler, Douglas Pennington, Daniel J. Foster, James P. Rohl
  • Patent number: 10856894
    Abstract: Mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses, and particularly knitted rolling tube mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses configured to have improved tracking for delivery through tortious vessels are described herein. Also described herein are methods of removing clots using a mechanical thrombectomy apparatuses in which the clot is larger than the tractor portion of the mechanical thrombectomy apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Michael P. Wallace, Robert Garabedian, Roy Leguidleguid, E. Skott Greenhalgh
  • Patent number: 10856895
    Abstract: An object suction device that more effectively sucks an object includes a pipe, a rotating member that is rotatably provided in the pipe and conveys an object that enters from an opening portion provided at a distal end of the pipe toward a rear end of the pipe, an air motor that rotates the rotating member, a nozzle that sucks the object discharged from the rear end of the pipe, and a channel that is connected to both the nozzle and the air motor and forms a flow of air and the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON FRONTIER MEDICINE LABORATORIES, INC.
    Inventors: Junichi Fukui, Kunihiro Musashi
  • Patent number: 10856896
    Abstract: Apparatus and method to permit selective cutting and coagulation required in fine and delicate surgical procedures. The apparatus includes two body members having proximal ends and distal ends with jaw members located adjacent the body member's distal ends. The body members are joined at a pivot located adjacent to the first and second jaw members joining the first and second body members where the body members' rotation about the pivot defines a plane of rotation. The scissors are adapted for selective application of energy to at least one jaw member by a switch located in the plane of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Ethicon LLC
    Inventors: Stephen E. Eichmann, Karen K. Isaacs, Kenneth S. Kramer, Michael R. Lamping, Ashvani K. Madan, Matthew C. Miller, Aaron C. Voegele, Eitan T. Wiener, Joseph E. Young
  • Patent number: 10856897
    Abstract: A surgical apparatus comprises a body, a user input feature, a shaft assembly, an end effector, and a blade cooling system. The end effector comprises a clamp arm and an ultrasonic blade that may be coupled with an ultrasonic transducer. The clamp arm is configured to pivot toward and away from the ultrasonic blade. The cooling system is operable to deliver liquid coolant to the ultrasonic blade to thereby cool the ultrasonic blade. The user input feature is operable to both actuate the clamp arm and actuate the cooling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Ethicon LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Stokes, Ryan M. Asher, Charles J. Scheib, Rudolph H. Nobis, Frederick L. Estera, Benjamin D. Dickerson, Carl J. Draginoff, Jr., Jeffrey D. Messerly, David J. Cagle, Jacob S. Gee, William B. Weisenburgh, II, Omar E. Rios Perez, Chester O. Baxter, III, Benjamin M. Boyd, Rafael J. Ruiz Ortiz, Joël Fontannaz, Lukas Glutz, Amir Feriani, Emmanuel Gremion
  • Patent number: 10856898
    Abstract: A foreign object removal device is disclosed, which includes a protective sheath, and a device main body, which is disposed in a lumen of the protective sheath, can protrude from a distal end opening of the protective sheath communicating with the lumen and is rotatable relative to the protective sheath. The device main body includes, at a distal end portion protruding from the distal end opening, a screw which rotates integrally with the device main body and in which a flat plate is twisted, and side edges of the flat plate are formed in a spiral shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shuhei Matsushita, Hiroshi Yagi, Junko Kuniyasu
  • Patent number: 10856899
    Abstract: A balloon catheter (1) including a device (3) adjacent the distal end (12) of a catheter (10) for guiding a boring tool (5) or other instrument into an occlusion (6) in a vessel (8), includes a guide element (30) adjacent the distal end (12). A penetrating element (33) having a first guide bore (38) terminating in a distal cutting edge (40) is rotatable in a second guide bore (45) extending through the guide element. External threads on the penetrating element (33) are engageable with internal threads in the second guide bore (45), so that by rotating the penetrating element (33) the distal cutting edge (40) is urged outwardly to penetrate the occlusion (6). With the penetrating element (33) securely engaged in the occlusion (6), a boring tool (5) and other instruments can then be sequentially guided through the catheter (10) and the first guide bore (38) directly into the occlusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: CAPSOS MEDICAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Ian Michael Connell
  • Patent number: 10856900
    Abstract: Systems, instruments, and methods for minimally invasive procedures including one or more of fractional resection, fractional lipectomy, fractional skin grafting, and/or fractional scar revision are described. Embodiments include instrumentation comprising a scalpet assembly coupled to a carrier, and the scalpet assembly includes a scalpet array. The scalpet array includes one or more scalpets configured for fractional resection, fractional lipectomy, fractional skin grafting, and/or fractional scar revision. The system includes a vacuum component coupled to the scalpet assembly and configured to evacuate tissue from the a site. The carrier is configured to control application of a rotational force and/or a vacuum force to the scalpet assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SRGI HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: Edward Knowlton
  • Patent number: 10856901
    Abstract: A surgical access port assembly including a cannula having a diameter of less than about 3 mm and a tapered hub, capable of attachment to a laparoscopic surgical instrument, connected to the proximal end of the cannula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Teleflex Medical Incorporated
    Inventors: Sundaram Ravikumar, Guy Osborne, Harry Allan Alward
  • Patent number: 10856902
    Abstract: Devices and methods are provided for performing a medical procedure using a trans-septal approach. The device includes a dilator including a proximal end, a distal end terminating in a distal tip, and a lumen extending between the dilator proximal and distal ends, and a needle device including a proximal end, a distal end sized for introduction into the dilator lumen and terminating in a sharpened distal tip. The needle is movable relative to the dilator to selectively expose the needle device distal tip distally from the dilator lumen and advance the dilator relative to the needle device. The dilator may have a complex tapered shape on its distal tip, e.g., including first and second tapered regions. The needle device may include an inner needle including the sharpened distal tip and an outer tube including a substantially blunt distal end that slidably receives the inner needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: CLPH, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen A. Leeflang, Christian S. Eversull
  • Patent number: 10856903
    Abstract: A laparoscopic port is disclosed which includes a tubular member comprising a proximal end and a distal end and a lumen extending there between. At least one seal member provided in the lumen adapted to prevent pressurized gas flow from the distal end to the proximal end of the tubular member. The laparoscopic port further includes a shielding trigger positioned distal to the seal member in the lumen, the shielding trigger is shaped so as at least a proximal portion of the shielding trigger has a narrowing cross-section that extends towards the seal member, the proximal portion is adapted to actuate a reversibly opening and protection of the seal member upon a proximally projected pressure from a distal end of an artifact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: EON SURGICAL LTD.
    Inventors: Danny Farin, Yehuda Bachar, Ronny Winshtein
  • Patent number: 10856904
    Abstract: An introducer for facilitating implantation of a therapy element into a patient defines a lumen configured to receive the therapy element. At least a portion of the introducer is configured to preferentially flex in at least a first direction over at least a second direction. That is, at least a portion of the introducer is predisposed to bend in a particular direction. In some embodiments, the introducer may also resist bending in one or more directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventor: Martin T. Gerber
  • Patent number: 10856905
    Abstract: Catheter-based delivery systems for delivery and retrieval of a leadless pacemaker include features to facilitate improved manipulation of the catheter and improved capture and docking functionality of leadless pacemakers. Such functionality includes mechanisms directed to deflecting and locking a deflectable catheter, maintaining tension on a retrieval feature, protection from anti-rotation, and improved docking cap and drive gear assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: PACESETTER, INC.
    Inventors: Scott Kerns, Daniel Coyle
  • Patent number: 10856906
    Abstract: A surgical access system comprises a trocar, an insufflating optical obturator slidably insertable into the trocar, and a laparoscope slidably insertable into the obturator. A distal end of the obturator comprises a tip, at least a portion of which comprises a wall with a generally uniform thickness comprising a transparent material. At least one vent hole disposed at the obturator tip is fluidly connected to a gas flow channel defined by an interior surface of the obturator and the laparoscope, which is fluidly connected to an insufflation gas inlet disposed at a proximal end of the trocar. Improved optical characteristics of the trocar system permit precise and accurate visual placement thereof into a body cavity. Accordingly the access system is suitable as a first entry surgical access system. Embodiments of the trocar access are also useful for drug delivery, and/or for fluid and/or tissue aspiration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Applied Medical Resources Corporation
    Inventors: Henry Kahle, Arkadiusz A. Strokosz, Scott V. Taylor
  • Patent number: 10856907
    Abstract: A method of atraumatic medication pellet delivery using an atraumatic trocar apparatus is described. The atraumatic trocar apparatus includes a cannula and an obturator. The method includes receiving the obturator by the cannula, wherein the obturator passes through the interior passage and exits through the anterior cannula opening so that the obturator anterior rounded tip extends past the anterior cannula end and at least one opening proximate to the anterior rounded tip also extends past the anterior cannula end. The method includes inserting the atraumatic insertion trocar through an incision into subcutaneous tissue along an insertion path to an insertion length. Additionally, the method includes inserting one or more medication pellet into the medication slot of the inserted cannula and delivering the medication pellet(s) through the interior passage of the cannula to a subcutaneous delivery site by inserting the delivery obturator into the posterior opening of the cannula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventor: Charles P. Virden
  • Patent number: 10856908
    Abstract: The present application provides external bone fixation systems. The systems include one or more pairs of bone fixation platforms in the form of rings or partial rings. The platforms may be coupled to corresponding bone segments. The pair of platforms are configured to accept a plurality of struts extending therebetween. The struts are configured to attach to the platforms via joints that provide three degrees of rotation. The struts are also configured such that their longitudinal length extending between the joints/platforms can be incrementally adjusted while attached to the platforms. The struts are further configured such that their total range of length adjustment can be increased by coupling at least one add-on component to the struts in situ. The lengths of each of the plurality of struts may be adjusted to arrange the platforms, and thereby the bone segment coupled thereto, in particular relative positions and orientations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: AMDT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventor: Michael Mullaney
  • Patent number: 10856909
    Abstract: A polyaxial bone screw assembly includes a threaded shank body having an integral upper portion receivable in an integral receiver, the receiver having an upper channel for receiving a longitudinal connecting member and a lower cavity cooperating with a lower opening. The receiver can have crimp tabs, but is devoid of spring tabs and collet-like flexible structures. A down-loadable compression insert (some with lock and release feature), a down-loadable friction fit split retaining ring and an up-loadable shank upper portion cooperate to provide for pop- or snap-on assembly of the shank with the receiver either prior to or after implantation of the shank into a vertebra. The shank and receiver once assembled cannot be disassembled. The receiver and insert include aligned tool receiving apertures for lock and release of the polyaxial mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventor: Roger P. Jackson
  • Patent number: 10856910
    Abstract: A method of inserting a spinal stabilization system into a patient generally comprises inserting a first positioning tool through a first location on a patient's skin and along a path generally toward a first vertebral anchor, coupling an end of the first positioning tool to the first vertebral anchor, positioning at least a portion of a delivery device over a connecting element, and inserting the delivery device and the connecting element through the patient's skin at the first location and along at least a portion of the first positioning tool. The first positioning tool is configured to facilitate directing the delivery device and connecting element generally toward a second vertebral anchor within the patient's body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Zimmer Spine, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Darst Rice, Emmanuel Zylber
  • Patent number: 10856911
    Abstract: A polyaxial bone screw assembly includes a threaded shank body having an integral upper portion receivable in an integral receiver, the receiver having an upper channel for receiving a longitudinal connecting member and a lower cavity cooperating with a lower opening. A friction fit compression insert (some with lock and release feature), a planar split retaining ring and a shank upper portion cooperate to provide for pop- or snap-on assembly of the shank with the receiver either prior to or after implantation of the shank into a vertebra. The shank and receiver once assembled cannot be disassembled and the receiver and insert may include aligned tool receiving apertures for lock and release of the polyaxial mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventor: Roger P. Jackson