Patents Issued in August 24, 2021
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Patent number: 11096718Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method includes positioning a portion of a trocar into a patient cavity and inserting a surgical instrument into the trocar. The method also includes measuring, by a pressure sensor disposed in, on, or through a medical appliance, a pressure indicative of a pressure in the patient cavity. The method also includes supplying, based at least in part on the measured pressure, an insufflation gas to the patient cavity by providing the insufflation gas through the trocar.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: LEXION MEDICAL, LLCInventors: Carl M. Geisz, Rochelle M. Amann
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Patent number: 11096719Abstract: An improved transparent bladeless obturator includes a proximal handle, a distal-end portion and a shaft therebetween, the handle and the shaft including a generally-aligned axis aperture, the distal-end portion including a transparent tip, from the distal end to the proximal end, the transparent tip divided into a top-portion, a spear-portion, a transition-portion and a base-portion; the top-portion includes an apex and a rotary-wall extending axially from the apex to the proximal end and gradually increasing in a transverse direction, the rotary-wall limiting a hollow cone; the main-portion including a main-body wall, the rotary-wall and the main-body wall extend to be intersected and form a circular field of vision; the sweeping-wall extends axially from the distal end to the proximal end and gradually increases in a transverse direction; and the spear-portion includes the first transverse-portion and the second transverse-portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: 5RMED TECHNOLOGY (CHENGDU) CO., LTDInventor: Moshu Zhu
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Patent number: 11096720Abstract: This disclosure relates to a cannula for a surgical instrument used for cutting selected tissue in a body cavity while under visual inspection. A kit containing the cannula and methods for performing surgical procedures using the cannula are also described.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: A.M. Surgical, Inc.Inventors: Romi Mirza, Ather Mirza
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Patent number: 11096721Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods and systems to assist in surgery of a joint. The system determines a mechanical property of one or more ligaments associated with the joint based on measurement data indicative of a movement of the bones relative to each other under multiple mechanical loads. The system then determines a predicted characteristic of the joint after the surgery based on a spatial parameter of the surgery and based on the mechanical property of the one or more ligaments and generates an output signal indicative of the predicted characteristic to assist the surgery. Since the predicted characteristic of the joint is determined based on the mechanical property of the ligaments, the prediction is more accurate than other methods that rely on only bone geometries to predict a surgery outcome.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2016Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: 360 Knee Systems Pty Ltd.Inventors: Willy Theodore, Joshua Twiggs, Brad Miles, Bede O'Connor
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Patent number: 11096722Abstract: An external fixator system includes a proximal frame configured to restrict motion in a lower extremity of a subject, and a frame connector assembly. The proximal frame includes a first, second, and third component. The first component can support a first clamp to secure a first pin inserted within a bone extending between a foot and a knee of the lower extremity. The third component extends from a second end of the second component. The first, second and third components have longitudinal axes that are substantially coplanar. The third component includes an extension to extend over a dorsal portion of the foot of the subject and to support a second clamp to secure a second pin inserted within a bone of the foot. The frame connector assembly extends from the second component to support a third clamp to secure a third pin inserted within a third bone of the foot.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: FOOT INNOVATIONS, LLCInventors: Roy W. Sanders, Sergio Gutierrez
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Patent number: 11096723Abstract: A spinal stabilization system for surgical implantation in the spine having a bone fastener. The bone fastener is provided with a head portion and a shaft portion. A housing is also provided with a recess defined by sidewalls and an opening for receiving the head portion of the bone fastener. A seating element is disposed within the housing and positioned over the head portion of the bone fastener. An elongate rod is positioned on the seating element within the recess of the housing. The system also includes a cap capable of engaging with a top portion of the housing and capturing the elongate rod within the recess of the housing when the cap is rotated. The bone fastener articulates in a single plane with respect to the housing and the seat element.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Globus Medical Inc.Inventors: Khiem Pham, Andrew Iott
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Patent number: 11096724Abstract: The present application provides a tool for minimally invasive surgical procedures. The tool includes a first and second portion where each portion has an outer blade and an inner blade that is slidable along the outer blade. A removable connector connects the first and second portions. When removed, the first and second portions are separated by a gap extending the length of the tool.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Zimmer Biomet Spine, Inc.Inventors: Jared Parker, Michael Funk, Randall G. Mast
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Patent number: 11096725Abstract: Various exemplary methods and devices are provided for the removal and retention of bone screw rod reduction tabs extending from one or more bone screws implanted in a spinal column during a surgical procedure. In one embodiment, a removal and retention tool is provided having an elongated shaft with a channel formed therein that is configured to receive a rod reduction tab. The elongate shaft can be advanced over a rod reduction tab on a screw, and moved laterally to detach the reduction tab from the screw. The tool can include features to engage and retain the detached tab within the channel. Moreover, the tool can be configured to receive and retain multiple tabs, thus eliminating the need to remove the tool from a surgical site. The tool can also include a release actuator for releasing any tabs stored within the elongate shaft as may be needed.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Medos International SarlInventors: Joseph Peterson, Frank Spratt
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Patent number: 11096726Abstract: A multi-layer, fiber-reinforced composite orthopaedic fixation device having a design selected based on a desired characteristic of the orthopaedic fixation device. The design may be selected according to a model of the device, the model defining design constraints, and the design may comprise a pattern of the fiber angle for each layer. The selection of a design may be analyzed using finite element analysis to determine whether the design will comprise the desired characteristic.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: James K. Rains, Gene Edward Austin, John Rose, Joseph Michael Ferrante, Darin S. Gerlach, Nathaniel Kelley Grusin, Sied W. Janna, Henry B. Faber, Mark S. Gosney, Darren James Wilson
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Patent number: 11096727Abstract: A spinal fixation device is provided including a modular head assembly and a bone screw. The modular had assembly includes a housing, an anvil, an insert, and a snap ring. The housing defines a proximal surface and an opposite, distal surface, and the proximal and distal surfaces define a throughbore therethrough. The anvil is configured to be slidably received within a portion of the throughbore. The insert defines a proximal surface and an opposite, distal surface, and the distal surface defines a first counterbore therein that terminates at a first annular surface. The first annular surface defines a second counterbore that terminates at a second annular surface. The snap ring is configured to be disposed within the first counterbore of the insert when in a first configuration, and within the second counterbore of the insert when in a second configuration.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: K2M, Inc.Inventors: Michael Barrus, Brandon Moore
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Patent number: 11096728Abstract: The invention relates to an implant (1) for osteosynthesis, comprising a securing region (3) that has a plurality of holes (2) for receiving securing means, and two projections (4) which extend away, at least partially curved, from said securing region (3), wherein at least one of the two projections (4) takes the form of a snap-on lug (5) that can snap onto a bone segment (7, 8) of a mammal bone (6); the invention also relates to an implant kit comprising such an implant (1).Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Karl Leibinger Medizintechnik GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Christian Leibinger, Klaus Kohler
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Patent number: 11096729Abstract: A TPLO plate configured to accommodate flexible strands (flexible loops) attached to tissue to be attached to bone. The TPLO plate has one or more suture eyelets, to allow the user (surgeon) to pass a flexible strand through the eyelets and attach/reattach the tissue to the plate at the anatomical location, and to improve the rotational stability of the joint or bone. The eyelets may have various shapes, forms and configurations and may be provided on or within a surface of the TPLO bone plate in any number, depending on the characteristics of the fractured bone or bone segments, or of the plate design. The eyelets preferably receive one or more flexible strands.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: ARTHREX, INC.Inventors: James R. Dunlop, Gregory Joshua Karnes, Brandon L. Roller, Antonio Pozzi, James L. Cook
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Patent number: 11096730Abstract: An aiming guide system configured for connection to a bone plate including an aiming arm and a connection assembly. The aiming arm has a rigid body extending from a proximal end to a distal end with a plurality of aiming holes defined through the rigid body between the proximal end and the distal end thereof. The distal end defines an attachment slot through the body. The connection assembly is configured to engage an attachment screw hole of the bone plate and the attachment slot such that the aiming arm is fixed in position relative to the bone plate with each of the aiming holes aligned with a respective hole along the bone plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Globus Medical Inc.Inventors: Christina M. Tiongson, Jeffrey S. Lueth, Zachary C. Shiner, David R. Jansen, Lauren E. Gray
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Patent number: 11096731Abstract: A reduction and fixation tool has two principle component parts—an intra-articular spoon with a blade, and a handle that docks with the spoon. The spoon has a proximal hub onto which the handle docks. In one example of the tool as it would be used with a fractured scaphoid, the spoon has a distal blade, curved and narrow to slip beneath the undersurface of the scaphoid and to lift the distal fragment of the bone back into proper alignment (fracture reduction). The handle, docked to the spoon, serves as a lever to easily accomplish the reduction, and as a guide for the central insertion of a guide wire into the scaphoid across the fracture site.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Inventors: Jaiyoung Ryu, Terry L. Whipple
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Patent number: 11096732Abstract: Various bone fixation wires and methods of making bone fixation wires are described. A bone fixation wire includes an elongate member defining an outer wall, a retaining member disposed on the outer wall between the elongate member first end and the geometric midpoint of the axial length of the elongate member on the lengthwise axis, and a stopping member disposed on the elongate member and contacting the retaining member. The elongate member comprises a first material and the stopping member comprises a second material that is different from the first material.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: GLW, Inc.Inventors: Rachael Alia Mesibov, Thomas Hoon Lee
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Patent number: 11096733Abstract: A system for the amelioration of a recess (56) in a porous material, said system comprising an element (2) for coupling in mechanical energy, and a cylindrical collar (4, 40) having a central recess (44,45) for a guide pin (8), wherein the pin (8), having a cannulation (35), is provided to be inserted as far as the bottom of the recess (56) using a wire (52), wherein the pin (8) is surrounded by an amelioration sleeve (7), wherein the external cylindrical jacket surface of the sleeve (7) has substantially the same external diameter as the collar (4, 40), and wherein the pin (8) is received movably in the central recess (44,45) such that, when mechanical energy is applied, the collar (4,40) can be moved relative to the guide pin (8) in the direction toward the bottom of the recess (8) while liquefying and displacing the material of the sleeve (7).Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2016Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: NEXILIS AG bei BDO AGInventors: Christian Frei, Simon Zimmermann, Falko Schlottig, Martin Horst
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Patent number: 11096734Abstract: Disclosed are devices and methods used to customize the length of fasteners used during orthopedic surgeries, comprising creating a hole of the desired depth in a bone, measuring the depth of the hole using a depth measuring device, calculating, using the depth measuring device, the optimal length dimension of the fastener, transferring the calculated fastener optimal length dimension to a fastener cutting device, inserting a fastener having a length exceeding the optimal length dimension into the fastener cutting device, and cutting the fastener to the optimal length dimension using the fastener cutting device.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: SKELETAL DYNAMICS, INC.Inventors: Jorge L. Orbay, Antonio R. Orbay-Cerrato, Dennis J. Moreno, Robert Richards, Erik Carlson
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Patent number: 11096735Abstract: A surgical instrument for implanting a bone fastener is provided. The surgical instrument comprises an elongated body having a frangible region and a distal end adjacent to the frangible region. The distal end of the surgical instrument is configured to engage the bone fastener. The bone fastener is less frangible than the frangible region of the elongated body of the surgical instrument. Kits and methods are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc.Inventors: Alexander J. Rohlfing, Jason M. May, William Alan Rezach
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Patent number: 11096736Abstract: A catheter adapted for use in the pericardial sac to sense temperature of an ablation site and surrounding heart tissue within one of the heart's ventricles or atria via proximity with the epicardium in the pericardial sac, includes a catheter body and a temperature sensing array adapted for placement on and contact with the epicardium. The temperature sensing array may comprise a 2-D body, with a surface adapted to contact an area on the epicardial tissue or in pericardial space. The array may also comprise at least one finger member, each having at least one temperature sensing location. The array may further comprise an elongated body having a generally circular configuration, a distal portion of which is movable to a spirally inward position.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2013Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.Inventors: John H. Ashton, Kelvin M. Chuu, Mark T. Stanley
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Patent number: 11096737Abstract: A dual-output generator is configured to output two or more waveforms at different frequencies. In particular, the dual-output generator is configured to provide low-frequency output, which may be suitable for ultrasonic surgical instruments, and a high-frequency output, which may be suitable for electrosurgical instruments, while reducing the amplitude of all remaining frequencies other than the two selected low and high frequencies to about zero.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Daniel A. Friedrichs, Daniel J. Costinett, Bradford C. Trento, Chongwen Zhao
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Patent number: 11096738Abstract: A method of treating an intervertebral disc without piercing the disc involves navigating a treatment element to the intervertebral disc and contacting the treatment element with an exterior of the intervertebral disc. The method further involves applying an energy-based treatment to the exterior of the intervertebral disc to modify a property of a target tissue of the intervertebral disc. The target tissue may be, for example, annulus fibrosus and/or nucleus pulposus tissue. The treatment element is then removed, and the property remains modified after the treatment element is removed and the target tissue heals, thereby treating the intervertebral disc.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Aerin Medical, Inc.Inventors: Fred Dinger, Andrew Frazier
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Patent number: 11096739Abstract: Methods and devices for allowing articulation of an end effector on a surgical instrument are provided. In one embodiment, a surgical device can include a flexible neck portion having an end effector coupled to a distal end thereof. The flexible neck portion is configured to bend to as to allow the end effector to articulate. The flexible neck portion can include a monolithic flexible outer shell defining an inner lumen extending therethrough. At least one flexible divider can be disposed within the inner lumen such that it separates the outer shell into elongate pathways configured to receive articulation members extending through the shaft assembly and the flexible neck and coupled to the end effector to cause articulating movement thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Cilag GmbH InternationalInventors: Randolph C. Stewart, Geoffrey S. Strobl, Barry Worrell
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Patent number: 11096740Abstract: An electrode arrangement according to the invention for a bipolar resectoscope (50) comprises an elongate electrode carrier (2), an active electrode disposed at a distal end of the electrode carrier (2) and a neutral electrode, wherein a distal end section of the electrode carrier (2) is embodied as an electrode body (4, 40) through which a supply line (20) of the active electrode is guided and wherein the neutral electrode is formed by the electrode body (4, 40) or a portion of the electrode body (4, 40). The invention also relates to a resectoscope (50).Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Martin Hahn, Rainer Hermle, Franziska Wirth, Uwe Wittke
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Patent number: 11096741Abstract: Methods and systems are adapted for ablation of target tissue in a living subject by predicting a lesion size that would result from placing an ablation electrode into contact with the target tissue at a particular contact force while applying energy at a given power level for a particular time interval. The prediction involves modeling the lesion size as a non-linear function of the contact force, the power level and the time interval. The prediction may be iterated by varying the contact force, the power level or the time interval until a saturation point is found, beyond which the lesion size does not increase. After it is established that one of the iterations predicts a desired lesion size, ablation of the target tissue may be conducted using the contact force, the power level and the time interval of the one iteration.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2012Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.Inventors: Assaf Govari, Athanassios Papaioannou
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Patent number: 11096742Abstract: The invention relates to ablation catheter electrodes that solve in part the problem of tissue charring during radiofrequency ablation. The electrode assemblies of the invention include passageways that lead from the inner lumen of the assemblies to the surface of the assemblies, wherein the passageways have a smooth conjunction with the outer surface. These smooth conjunctions comprise rounded edges or are chamfered. In the case of rounded edges, the rounded edges can have fixed radii of about 0.002? to about 0.008?.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: St. Jude Medical, Atrial Fibrillation Division, Inc.Inventors: Huisun Wang, Sacha C. Hall
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Patent number: 11096743Abstract: A laser system for use in an environment is disclosed. The laser system may include a base unit including a laser, a controller operatively coupled to the laser, and a first antenna operatively coupled to the controller. The laser system may further include a laser energy delivery system having a first end which receives laser energy from the laser and a second end which delivers the laser energy to the environment. The laser system may further include a switch unit located remote from the base unit and including a switch controller, a second antenna operatively coupled to the switch controller, and a user operable switch. The switch unit may be connected to the base unit through a tether. The controller may determine when the laser energy is provided to the laser energy delivery system based on a signal from the switch unit, the signal being sent wirelessly to the controller from the second antenna of the switch unit to the first antenna of the base unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: THE SPECTRANETICS CORPORATIONInventor: Kenneth Chalfant
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Patent number: 11096744Abstract: The present invention patent refers to a system for vascular-surgery simulation that corresponds to an equipment and system designed to produce, by means of 3D printing using a 3D printer, real images of the aorta of the patients obtained by imagined examinations such as computed tomography and/or nuclear magnetic resonance in order to enable doctors to acquire complex skills and/or to refine their operating techniques, training in a controlled environment and with suitable guidance, without putting the patient at risk, being characterized in that it comprises connectors (2) made of silicone, pulsating flow pump (3), negatoscope (4), black box (5), camera (not shown) and monitor (6) such as to reproduce, in silicone or translucent resin, the aortic arch, thoracic aorta, abdominal aorta and the iliac arteries.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Inventors: Inez Oashi Torres Ayres, Nelson De Luccia
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Patent number: 11096745Abstract: A transperinealprostate intervention device comprises a prostate intervention instrument (10), a transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) probe (12), and a mechanical or optical coordinate measurement machine (CMM) (20) attached to the TRUS probe and configured to track the prostate intervention instrument. The CMM may include an articulated arm with a plurality of encoding joints (24), an anchor end (30) attached to the TRUS probe, and a movable end (32) attached to the prostate intervention instrument. The prostate intervention instrument may, for example, be a biopsy needle, a brachytherapy seed delivery instrument, a tissue ablation instrument, or a hollow cannula. An electronic processor (40) computes a predicted trajectory (54) of the prostate intervention instrument in a frame of reference of the TRUS probe using the CMM attached to the TRUS probe. A representation (56) of the predicted trajectory is superimposed on a prostate ultrasound image (50) generated from ultrasound data collected by the TRUS probe.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Shyam Bharat, Aleksandra Popovic, Ameet Kumar Jain
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Patent number: 11096746Abstract: A handheld user interface device for controlling a robotic system may include a member, a housing at least partially disposed around the member and configured to be held in the hand of a user, and a tracking sensor system disposed on the member and configured to detect at least one of position and orientation of at least a portion of the device. At least one of the detected position of the portion of the device and detected orientation of the portion of the device is correlatable to a control of the robotic system.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: VERB SURGICAL INC.Inventors: Joan Savall, Allegra Anna Lenta Shum, Jose Luis Cordoba, Yiqi Zeng
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Patent number: 11096747Abstract: Example embodiments relate to surgical systems and methods. System includes an end-effector assembly and arm assembly. End-effector assembly includes an instrument assembly and wrist assembly. Instrument assembly includes an instrument and instrument driven portion. Instrument driven portion includes an instrument connection portion and instrument driven gear. Instrument connection portion connects the instrument driven gear to the instrument. Wrist assembly includes a wrist driven gear and wrist body, which connects the wrist driven gear to the instrument assembly. Arm assembly includes a wrist connector portion and integrated motors. Arm assembly attaches to and detaches from the wrist assembly. When the arm assembly is attached to the wrist assembly, the instrument driven gear and wrist driven gear are drivable to rotate by the integrated motors. When the arm assembly is detached from the wrist assembly, the instrument driven gear and wrist driven gear are not drivable to rotate by the integrated motors.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Bio-Medical Engineering (HK) LimitedInventors: Chung Kwong Yeung, Wing Fai Lam, Wai Lik Alik Chan
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Patent number: 11096748Abstract: A medical instrument may include multiple joint members and at least two pairs of tendons connected with the joint members and adapted to move at least one of the joint members relative to at least one other joint member. Each joint member may include a main structural body that may be a single piece and includes at least one convex contact surface. A main portion of each tendon contacts the medical instrument only on the convex contact surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: MEDICAL MICROINSTRUMENTS S.p.A.Inventors: Massimiliano Simi, Giuseppe Maria Prisco
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Patent number: 11096749Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to robotic surgical system that includes an operating console configured to operate at least one robotic arm and at least one drive motor configured to receive an input from the operating console and control the at least one robotic arm based on the input from the operating console. A surgical instrument is coupled to the at least one robotic arm. The surgical instrument is inserted into a patient and captures an image of a region of interest inside the patient during a surgical procedure. A controller receives the image and applies at least one image processing filter to identify at least one non-visible property of an object in the region of interest. A display displays the image to a user.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Tony C. Carnes, Edward M. Mckenna, Stephen Pack
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Patent number: 11096750Abstract: A joint assembly for a guiding device comprises a plurality of guiding elements that are concentrically aligned with respect to one another and at least sectionally spherically shaped. The guiding elements are arranged as components of a combined spherical bearing and comprise spherical contact areas. At least two of the guiding elements are integrally manufactured. The at least two guiding elements enable a relative pivot movement therebetween. A guiding device for an instrument incorporates a respective joint assembly. A method of manufacturing a joint assembly involves integrally manufacturing at least to guiding elements that form components of a combined spherical bearing. Uses of a joint assembly involve a use as a spherical bearing in an instrument holder for a simulation system or an assistance system for minimally invasive operations.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Karl Storz SE & Co. KGInventors: Gregor Mayer-Ullmann, Jordi Hogervorst, Andre Ehrhardt
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Patent number: 11096751Abstract: The invention may provide a puncture robot that can precisely move a needle in the puncture direction by setting needle position in a CT gantry. Provided is a puncture robot comprising a puncture unit, puncture robot being configured such that: the puncture unit comprises a puncture needle, an arm unit, a frame unit, and a base unit; the frame unit comprises a first frame and a second frame that are each provided with an advancing and retracting shaft, and a connecting rod; the arm unit comprises an upper arm and a lower arm, with the puncture needle being mounted to be parallel to the advancing and retracting shaft and the upper arm and the lower arm are advanced and retracted along the advancing and retracting shaft.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, OKAYAMA UNIVERSITYInventors: Hiroki Kitamura, Akira Heya, Takafumi Namba, Tetsushi Kamegawa, Takayuki Matsuno, Takao Hiraki
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Patent number: 11096752Abstract: A robotic surgical system comprising a surgical instrument comprising an end effector comprising (i) a blade, (ii) a first jaw member including a first electrode, and (iii) a second jaw member including a second electrode. The robotic surgical system may also comprise a motor and a control circuit configured to: (i) produce control signals comprising a first control signal and a second control signal, (ii) deliver an electrosurgical energy signal to the first electrode and the second electrode via the first control signal, (iii) deliver a drive signal to the motor via the second control signal (iv) receive at least one feedback signal, (v) determine a rate of change based on a first feedback signal of the at least one feedback signal, and (vi) maintain the rate of change at a predetermined rate or within a predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Cilag GmbH InternationalInventors: Foster B. Stulen, Randolph C. Stewart, Chad P. Boudreaux
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Patent number: 11096753Abstract: A system for treating a target tissue of a patient comprises a first robotic arm coupled to a treatment probe for treating the target tissue of the patient, and a second robotic arm coupled to an imaging probe for imaging the target tissue of the patient. The system further comprises one or more computing devices operably coupled with the first robotic arm and the second robotic arm, the one or more computing devices configured to execute instructions for controlling movement of one or more of the first robotic arm or the second robotic arm. The distal end of the treatment probe and/or imaging probe is constrained to be moved only within an allowable range of motion.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: PROCEPT BioRobotics CorporationInventors: Surag Mantri, Kevin Patrick Staid, Jason Hemphill, Kevin Louis Hudelson
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Patent number: 11096754Abstract: A sterile drape assembly for a surgical robot having a robotic arm, a cart coupled to the robotic arm, and optical tracking elements coupled to the robotic arm. The sterile drape assembly includes a surgical drape having an arm drape portion adapted to be disposed over the robotic arm. The sterile drape assembly also includes a drape holder cooperating with the surgical drape to cover the optical tracking elements located on the robotic arm.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: MAKO Surgical Corp.Inventors: Victor Soto, Oscar Williams, Donald W. Malackowski, Kathryn Aubrey
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Patent number: 11096755Abstract: Surgical tool management systems are presented including: a number of surgical tool holders for removably securing a number of surgical tools, where each of the surgical tool holders includes: a base, where the base includes a top surface and a bottom surface, an attachment element coupled with and along the bottom surface, where the attachment element removably couples with a surgical surface, and at least two opposing securing elements disposed along the top surface. In some embodiments, the surgical surface is selected from the group consisting of: a surgical curtain, a Mayo stand, and an instrument table. In some embodiments, the opposing securing elements include: a multi-purpose clip, a wire holder, and a tube clamp.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: FRYE MEDICAL, LLC.Inventors: Jeffrey Samuel Frye, Milind Raghunath Dhond
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Patent number: 11096756Abstract: A medical drape has a tool-less removal feature and includes a drape material, a drape cut, an adhesive tape strip, and a scoreline. The drape material has a top side, a back side, and at least one exterior edge. The drape cut has a starting point at the exterior edge and extends completely through the thickness of the drape material. The adhesive tape strip is positioned along the length of the drape cut to overlap at least a portion of the drape material on both sides of the drape cut to initially secure the two adjoining cut edges to each other. The scoreline extends along the length of the adhesive tape strip and only partially through the thickness of the adhesive tape strip to permit easy tearing of the adhesive tape strip for separation of the two adjoining cut edges.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Medline Industries, Inc.Inventor: Fred L Allen
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Patent number: 11096757Abstract: An implantable medical lead may include an electrode at a distal portion of the lead that is configured to monitor or provide therapy to a target site. The lead may include a visible indicator that is visible to the naked eye of a clinician at a medial portion of the lead that is configured to indicate when the electrodes of the lead are longitudinally and radially aligned properly to monitor or treat the target site. A clinician may insert the lead into the patient using an introducer sheath inserted to a predetermined depth into the patient and subsequently aligning the distal portion of the lead by orienting the indicator at an entry port of the introducer sheath.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: George W. McFall, Thomas D. Brostrom, Mark T. Marshall, Dina L. Williams, Megan Harris, Keith D. Anderson, Maggie J. Pistella
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Patent number: 11096758Abstract: A guidance device may include a base member, a support coupled to the base member via at least one leg, thereby defining a passage configured to receive an accessory device between the base member and the support, and a guide coupled to the support. The guide may be movable relative to the base member and may include a through hole extending therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Boston Scientific LimitedInventors: Subodh Morey, Ashish Jain, Timothy Harrah, Biten Kathrani, Sumit Malik, Salman Kapadia, Charudatta Aradhye, Nishant Randhawa, Rajiv Kumar Singh, Prashant Borkar
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Patent number: 11096759Abstract: Operating a medical image recording device in the context of an image recording routine for a patient is provided. The image recording routine serves an image recording purpose. The image recording device is controlled based on operating parameters implemented by a controller of the image recording device. The operating parameters are identified completely automatically by an identification algorithm from input data describing at least the patient in the form of a patient model and/or the image recording purpose, and from a registration of the patient with a coordinates system of the image recording device. The operating parameters are used to control the image recording device. An examination region that is to be recorded for the patient and the image recording purpose are derived based on the registration.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbHInventors: Martin Spahn, Philipp Bernhardt, Stefan Böhm, Boris Stowasser, Richard Obler, Stanislav Tashenov, Rudolf Leiblein, Andreas Berting, Markus Lendl, Oliver Baruth
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Patent number: 11096760Abstract: Needles are deployed in tissue under direct ultrasonic or other imaging. To aid in deploying the needle, a visual needle guide is projected on to the image prior to needle deployment. Once the needle guide is properly aligned, the needle can be deployed. After needle deployment, a safety boundary and treatment region are projected on to the screen. After confirming that the safety boundary and treatment regions are sufficient, the patient can be treated using the needle.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Gynesonics, Inc.Inventors: Michael Munrow, Jordan Bajor, Malcolm G. Munro
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Patent number: 11096761Abstract: Needles are deployed in tissue under direct ultrasonic or other imaging. To aid in deploying the needle, a visual needle guide is projected on to the image prior to needle deployment. Once the needle guide is properly aligned, the needle can be deployed. After needle deployment, a safety boundary and treatment region are projected on to the screen. After confirming that the safety boundary and treatment regions are sufficient, the patient can be treated using the needle.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Gynesonics, Inc.Inventors: Michael Munrow, Jordan Bajor, Malcolm G. Munro
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Patent number: 11096762Abstract: A system for planning and performing a guided and free-handed transperineal prostate biopsy includes a transrectal ultrasound probe, an access needle configured to perforate a perineal access site of a patient, a biopsy gun, and a guide. The guide includes a sliding platform, stabilization bars, upper and lower mounts, and fasteners. The system and guide apparatus is used for locating a target area using the ultrasound probe, positioning the ultrasound and the access needle at respective designated points, precisely measuring the distance to a designated point, and obtaining specimens from a precise point in the prostate, wherein the method is performed free-handed, and multiple tissue or cell specimens may be obtained from the prostate through an initial access needle.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Corbin Clinical Resources, LLCInventor: Matthew J. Allaway
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Patent number: 11096763Abstract: Orthodontic and/or dental treatment planning methods and apparatuses. In particular, described herein are methods of generating a plurality of potential treatment plan variations for the concurrent and interactive review of the treatment plan variations. Each variation may be optimized to best address the user's treatment goals, as well as approximating as closely as possible an ideal or target final position. Also described herein are orthodontic and/or dental treatment planning methods and apparatuses that allow a user to form, modify, and select a treatment plan from a plurality of different treatment plans, in real time.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Igor Akopov, Anton Lapshin, Samuel Blanco, Artem Kuanbekov, Eric P. Meyer, Andrey Maximov, Boris Likhtman, Michael Flanagan, Jason Ramos, Mitra Derakhshan, Roman A. Roschin, Rene M. Sterental, Adi Levin, Evgeniy Morozov, Alexander Belous, Olga Matusevich, Alexander Kulinich, Mikhail Nyukhtikov, Maria Shirshova, Olga Likhacheva, Irina Ivanova, Nikolay Yakovlev, Vladimir Grenaderov, Svetlana Makarenkova, Aleksandr Zhulin
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Patent number: 11096764Abstract: A dental tray molding kit for making a custom dental tray includes a generic tray, a thermoformable member removably insertable into the generic tray and a deformable spacer member placeable onto the thermoformable material and bitable by the user upon placement of the spacer member onto the thermoformable member in the user's mouth. The generic tray may be a rigid carrier tray and the kit may include a partially deformable member placed between the rigid carrier tray and the thermoformable member. A method for dental tray molding includes providing a generic tray, heating a thermoformable member until sufficiently pliable, placing the thermoformable member over the generic tray, placing a deformable spacer member over the thermoformable member, applying a biting force from a user onto the thermoformable member through the deformable spacer member, cooling the thermoformable member and separating the thermoformable member, whereby the thermoformable member forms a custom dental tray.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2017Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Inventor: Gilbert Ackel
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Patent number: 11096765Abstract: A handheld wand comprises a probe at a distal end of the elongate handheld wand. The probe includes a light projector and a light field camera. The light projector includes a light source and a pattern generator configured to generate a light pattern. The light field camera includes a light field camera sensor, the light field camera sensor comprising an image sensor comprising an array of sensor pixels, and an array of micro-lenses disposed in front of the image sensor such that each micro-lens is disposed over a sub-array of the array of sensor pixels.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Yossef Atiya, Erez Lampert, Avi Kopelman
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Patent number: 11096766Abstract: A method and system are provided for providing patient data useful for dental procedures, including scanning a dental structure of a patient when coupled to a geometric structure to provide a virtual model representative of the coupling and the dental structure, and relating the virtual model to a body reference of the patient.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventor: Avi Kopelman
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Patent number: 11096767Abstract: A method for generating a virtual model of a subperiosteal dental implant device. The method comprises: obtaining a virtual mouth model of a patient providing a three-dimensional representation of at least a section of a jaw bone of a patient, using a non-invasive modelling method; positioning at least one replacement tooth in relation to the section of the jaw bone defined by the virtual mouth model; positioning at least one implant head at a respective implant position; and designing and generating a virtual model of the subperiosteal dental implant device having a shape at least partially derived from a shape of the section of the jaw bone defined by the virtual mouth model and at least a portion of each one of the at least one implant head extending from the subperiosteal dental implant device at the respective implant position.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Panthera Dental Inc.Inventor: Jean Robichaud