Patents Issued in August 31, 2021
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Patent number: 11103206Abstract: A mammography apparatus includes a radiation source driver that moves a radiation source to a plurality of imaging positions including a first imaging position where LE imaging of emitting radiation R with low energy from the radiation source to capture a radiation image is performed, and a second imaging position where the LE imaging and HE imaging of emitting radiation R with high energy to capture a radiation image are performed, and a controller that causes a radiation detector to perform the LE imaging at the first imaging position in a state where the radiation source is moved, and causes the radiation detector to perform the LE imaging and the HE imaging at the second imaging position in a state where the movement of the radiation source is stopped or the radiation source is moved at a moving speed slower than that at the first imaging position.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroki Nakayama
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Patent number: 11103207Abstract: Systems that can overcome the limitations of current blood flow measurement systems and systems that can track in 3D the explosively driven fragments traveling at 1,000 m/s or faster, will provide temporal resolution of 1 ?s, spatial resolution of 50 ?m to 1 mm (or finer based on geometry), and allow imaging over at least 122×122 cm2 area are disclosed hereinbelow. These systems use a double-pulsed X-ray generator.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Radiation Monitorng Devices, Inc.Inventors: Bipin Singh, Vivek V. Nagarkar
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Patent number: 11103208Abstract: A pulmonary function measurement device, a pulmonary function measurement method, and a pulmonary function measurement program are disclosed. The pulmonary function measurement device for measuring data for evaluating a pulmonary function includes a sound output unit configured to be fixed to a body surface on one of front and rear sides of a lung, and outputs a sound toward the lung; a sound detection unit configured to be fixed to a body surface on one of the front and rear sides of the lung different from the side on which the sound output unit is to be fixed, and detects the sound from the sound output unit; a measurement unit configured to calculate a transmission time from when the sound output unit outputs the sound to when the sound detection unit detects the sound; and a variation calculation configured to calculate the amount of variation in the transmission time.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoki Utsugida, Shin Maki
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Patent number: 11103209Abstract: An ultrasonic system may include: an oral care device including: a head; a plurality of teeth cleaning elements extending from a first side of the head; and an ultrasound module including an ultrasound transceiver positioned in the head, the ultrasound transceiver configured to produce an ultrasound signal on the first side of the head and to generate a detection signal from a reflected ultrasound signal; and a processing module operably coupled to the ultrasound module to receive the detection signal; wherein the processing module includes a programmable processor configured to process the detection signal non-linearly with respect to time by first identifying a first reflection representing a surface of a tooth and then determining whether a second reflection peak is present in the detection signal at a time prior to the first reflection peak, the second reflection peak representing a biofilm on the surface of the tooth.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Xiaonan Zhang, Alan Sorrentino, Carlo Daep, Zi Wu
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Patent number: 11103210Abstract: An image guided autonomous needle insertion device including a delivery system, a path planner, an image processor, and a human machine interface. The system also includes an ultrasound probe in communication with a frame grabber, a percutaneous insertion device, and at least a first actuator for moving the percutaneous insertion device within a first degree of freedom and a second actuator for moving the percutaneous insertion device within a second degree of freedom. Each actuator has a corresponding position sensor for detecting its location with respect to a target. The system can further comprise an image processor for removing noise and segmenting the ultrasound images to highlight potential targets.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2015Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignees: Children's Hospital Medical Center, B.G. Negev Technologies and Applications Ltd.Inventors: Daniel Von Allmen, Hugo Guterman
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Patent number: 11103211Abstract: An ultrasonic medical monitoring device may include: at least one ultrasonic probe that scans a test subject to acquire an echo signal; a blood pressure measuring device that measures a blood pressure parameter of a peripheral artery of the test subject; a processor configured to receive the echo signal and process the echo signal to obtain a blood flow parameter, and to calculate a myocardial mechanic parameter that represents a synchronous coupling of a circulatory system of left ventricle-aorta-peripheral arteries circulation according to the blood flow parameter and the blood pressure parameter; and a display device that is coupled to the processor and displays the myocardial mechanic parameter.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yang Liu, Xiaocui Zhang, Yi Han, Shuo Liu
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Patent number: 11103212Abstract: The present disclosure describes system, application, and/or methods for enabling operation of a transducer probe with a medical imaging device. An example method includes the steps of retrieving a user identification code assigned to a user associated with an imaging device, retrieving a transducer identification code of a transducer probe from a memory of the transducer probe responsive to connecting the transducer probe to the imaging device, generating a temporary digital key based on the user identification code and the transducer identification code, retrieving a stored digital key from the memory of the transducer probe, verifying an association of the transducer probe including comparing the stored digital key with the temporary digital key, enabling operation of the transducer probe with the imaging device if the stored digital key matches the temporary digital key.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventor: Dale Allen Chermak
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Patent number: 11103213Abstract: A probe cap for use with an ultrasound probe including a head portion and an acoustic surface is disclosed. In one embodiment, the probe cap includes a body that defines a cavity sized for releasably receiving the head portion of the probe therein. The probe cap body further defines a hole that is proximate the acoustic surface of the head portion. A compliant spacer component is disposed in the hole. The spacer component can include a hydrogel and provides an acoustic path between the acoustic surface and a tissue surface of a patient. The spacer component includes a skin contact surface that defines a concavity and is deformable against the tissue surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2010Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: C. R. Bard, Inc.Inventors: Eddie K. Burnside, Eric W. Lindekugel, Jeremy B. Cox, Daniel B. Blanchard, Paul D. Morgan, Kevin W. Stinger
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Patent number: 11103214Abstract: In one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes a probe configured to be equipped with plural transducers arranged in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and be able to perform a two-dimensional scan in the first and second directions; a moving device configured to support the probe and mechanically move the probe in the second direction; a receiving circuit configured to generate first reception signals for respective moving positions of the probe in the second direction by performing receiving phase-compensation and summation processing on respective reflected signals received by the plurality of transducers at each of the moving positions; and processing circuitry configured to generate a second reception signal by performing moving aperture synthesis on the first reception signals generated for the respective moving positions of the probe based on positional information of the probe and generate image data from the second reception signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka Mine, Kazutoshi Sadamitsu, Masami Takahashi, Masatoshi Nishino, Norihisa Kikuchi, Naoyuki Nakazawa, Atsushi Nakai, Jiro Higuchi, Yutaka Kobayashi, Cong Yao, Kazuo Tezuka, Naoki Yoneyama, Atsushi Sumi
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Patent number: 11103215Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultrasound image diagnosis apparatus includes a boundary detection unit, a measurement unit, and a display control unit. The boundary detection unit detects the boundary of a structure in a subject based on volume data generated from a reflected signal of ultrasound waves transmitted toward inside of the subject. The measurement unit measures the size of the structure based on the boundary detected by the boundary detection unit. The display control unit displays the cross section of the structure according to a definition that is set in the advance and related to the size of the structure measured by the measurement unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Tatsuru Kurosaki, Minori Izumi, Takashi Koyakumaru
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Patent number: 11103216Abstract: A shear wave elastography method for imaging an observation field in an anisotropic medium, including an initial ultrasonic acquisition step during which initial physical parameters are acquired in at least one region of interest; a spatial characterization step during which a set of spatial characteristics of the anisotropic medium is determined on the basis of the initial physical parameter; an excitation substep during which an shear wave is generated inside the anisotropic medium on the basis of the set of spatial characteristics; and an observation substep during which the propagation of the shear wave is observed simultaneously at a multitude of points in the observation field.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2014Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: SUPERSONIC IMAGINEInventors: Jeremy Bercoff, Jean-Pierre Henry
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Patent number: 11103217Abstract: A reception beamformer 140 makes use of an ultrasound probe that includes N transducers in an azimuth direction, and includes: a partial frame memory 1432 partitioned into M0 azimuth direction×D depth direction addresses, where M0?N; and a synthesizer 143 that makes a correlation between acoustic line signal line data corresponding to transmission events and addresses of the partial frame memory 1432, synthesizes acoustic line signal line data obtained from transmission events by summing acoustic line signals with data stored at correlation addresses S which have been correlated with the acoustic line signals, and generates acoustic line signal frame data having N lines in the azimuth direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Ryuichiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 11103218Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasound probe; a transmission and reception unit that transmits an ultrasound beam from the ultrasound probe toward a subject, receives an ultrasound beam reflected from the subject, and processes a received signal output from the ultrasound probe to generate received data; a complex data generation unit that generates first complex data including amplitude information and phase information by orthogonally detecting the received data generated by the transmission and reception unit using a first center frequency and a first cutoff frequency and generates second complex data by orthogonally detecting the same data as the received data using a second cutoff frequency and a second center frequency lower than the first center frequency; a B-mode processing unit that generates a B-mode image using amplitude information of at least one of the first complex data or the second complex data; a phase difference calculation unit that calculates a first phase differenceType: GrantFiled: May 1, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Yukiya Miyachi
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Patent number: 11103219Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes the following. A deflection controller generates delay time information to make phases of reception signals input to channels uniform according to a deflection angle. A channel selector selects a channel in which the reception signal is turned on or off so that the phases of the reception signals input to channels are different and which generates channel selection information. A reception delay interrupter provides the delay amount to the reception signal and which turns on or off the reception signal. An adder adds the plurality of reception signals which are provided with the delay amount and turned on.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2016Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Yushi Nishimura, Masashi Kunita, Yoshihiko Ito, Mutsuhiro Akahane, Yasuhiro Nakamura
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Patent number: 11103220Abstract: An ultrasonic endoscope includes a plurality of ultrasonic vibrators; a distal end part that houses the plurality of ultrasonic vibrators; an electrically conductive endoscopic structure housed in or connected to the distal end part; a thermally conductive member connected to the plurality of ultrasonic vibrators; and an electrically insulating thermally conductive member connected to the endoscopic structure. The thermally conductive member and the electrically insulating thermally conductive member are connected to each other. Thus, the ultrasonic endoscope that has a heat release structure which transmits the heat generated from the ultrasonic vibrators to the electrically conductive endoscopic structure housed in the distal end part and which can efficiently release the heat therefrom while electric safety is secured; and that can prevent a burn of an alimentary canal by suppressing a temperature rise of surfaces of the ultrasonic vibrators is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Yasuhiko Morimoto, Katsuya Yamamoto, Satoru Okada
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Patent number: 11103221Abstract: An ultrasonic imaging method includes activating a transmit aperture within a multi-element transducer array, transmitting one or more ultrasonic beams along scan direction(s) that span the region of interest, for each transmit event, receiving ultrasound echoes from each element of a receive aperture, grouping the receive channel echo data into two or more sets corresponding to different receive sub-apertures, combining each sub-aperture data set to generate partially focused echo-location data for one or more reconstruction lines, and storing all the sub-aperture echo data sets during a storage period in a format that can be retrieved for later analysis.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Larry Y. L. Mo, Glen W. McLaughlin, Brian Derek DeBusschere, Ting-Lan Ji, Albert Gee, David J. Napolitano, Ching-Hua Chou, Robert W. Steins
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Patent number: 11103222Abstract: An apparatus (10) for calibrating electromagnetic (EM) tracking of an associated ultrasound probe (12) includes a calibration needle (16), an EM tracking device including a field generator (14) and a reference EM sensor (24), an EM sensor (18, 26) on the ultrasound probe and on the calibration needle; at least one processor (50); and a non-transitory storage medium storing instructions to perform a EM tracking calibration method including: determining a location of the calibration needle in an ultrasound imaging space at a measurement time using the ultrasound probe; determining an EM-tracked location of the calibration needle at the measurement time; and generating a registration relating the location of the calibration needle in the ultrasound imaging space and the EM-tracked location of the calibration needle at the measurement time.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Shyam Bharat, Antonio Bonillas Vaca
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Patent number: 11103223Abstract: A bone marrow access apparatus is adapted to be installed in connection with a bone. The bone marrow access apparatus includes a bone penetrating member having an internal channel having an opening at a proximal end and an opening at a distal end adapted to open into in a bone marrow space in the bone. A valve cap is provided around part of the bone penetrating member, and includes a valve having an opening having an open state in which the channel is not obstructed and a closed state to prevent flow of a material through the channel.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: APERTURE MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Bob Rioux, Khoder Jaber
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Patent number: 11103224Abstract: A sealant is provided for sealing a puncture through tissue that includes an elongate first section including a proximal end, a distal end, and a cross-section sized for delivery into a puncture through tissue, and a second section fused to and extending from the distal end of the first section. The first section may be formed from a freeze-dried hydrogel that expands when exposed to physiological fluid within a puncture. The second section may be formed from a solid mass of non-freeze-dried, non-crosslinked hydrogel precursors, the precursors remaining in an unreactive state until exposed to an aqueous physiological, whereupon the precursors undergo in-situ crosslinking with one another to provide an adhesive layer bonded to the first section. Apparatus and methods for delivering the sealant into a puncture through tissue are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: ACCESS CLOSURE, INC.Inventors: Andy H. Uchida, Anthony P. Spizuoco, Kevin To, Florencia Lim, Scott R. Sershen
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Patent number: 11103225Abstract: A medical device includes a fluid collection element, a fluid communication element and a pulling element. The pulling element is attached to a distal end of the fluid collection element and/or fluid communication element. The medical device can be included in a medical kit.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2017Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: B. BRAUN SURGICAL S.A.Inventors: Patricia Klefisch, Ivan Rosales Parral, Pau Turon Dols, Maria Eugenia Grandes Vilaclara, Ricardo Sanchez Garrido
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Patent number: 11103226Abstract: A retractor system for securing surgical retractors includes an elastic tether and a cleat. The elastic tether has an elongated side and a predetermined diameter. The cleat includes a base, a head, and a shaft. The base includes an upper surface with a first row of teeth. The head is coupled to the base via the shaft. The head includes a lower surface with a second row of teeth. The first row of teeth are opposite the second row of teeth by less than the predetermined diameter of the tether and are configured to receive and compress the elongated side of the tether. Each tooth of the first row of teeth includes a first gripping surface that extends away from the shaft. Each tooth of the second row of teeth includes a second gripping surface that extends away from the shaft and that is parallel to the first gripping surface of a directly opposite tooth of the first row of teeth.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: THOMPSON SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, INC.Inventors: Christopher T. Martin, Adam Truckey, Dan Farley
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Patent number: 11103227Abstract: A retractor includes a first arm, a second arm, and a translating member. The first arm comprises a proximal portion configured to retain a first retractor member and a distal portion configured to rotate relative to the proximal portion about a first axis. The second arm is configured to retain a second retractor member, such that rotation of the distal portion about the first axis causes the first retractor member to pivot toward or away from the second retractor member when the first retractor member and the second retractor member are coupled to the first arm and the second arm, respectively. The translating member is coupled between the proximal portion and the distal portion, and is configured to receive a drive force that causes the translating member to bias the distal portion to pivot relative to the proximal portion about the first axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Cyril Baudouin, Matthew Fenn, Markus Hunziker, Sean Saidha, Michael White, Khawar Siddique, Brian Perri, Philippe Lindenmann
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Patent number: 11103228Abstract: A surgical retractor for retracting body tissue in a therapeutic procedure includes a blade having a body portion and a plurality of elongate elements extending from the body portion. The plurality of elongate elements is separated a distance from one another along a length of the body portion and form one or more gaps therebetween. The plurality of elongate elements is connected by one or more cross connectors transverse to the plurality of elongate elements. The retractor blade is configured to permit movement of a lung being retracted.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Globus Medical Inc.Inventors: Michael A. Gross, Timothy Guenot
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Patent number: 11103229Abstract: Methods and apparatus for performing joint laxity measurement are disclosed. A retractor includes a plurality of spacers, such as plates, that are capable of being moved from a central portion of the retractor by a carriage mechanism. In some cases, the carriage mechanism may press against ramps connected to internal sides of the plates, thereby causing the plates to be displaced outwardly. In other cases, the carriage mechanism may include blades that rotate and press against the internal sides of the plates, thereby causing the plates to be displaced outwardly. The retractor is mounted on a surgical device configured to actuate the carriage mechanism. When the retractor is placed in a joint and the carriage mechanism is actuated, a measurement of the joint laxity may be determined based upon characteristics of the retractor and/or the surgical device.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignees: Smith & Nephew, Inc., Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG, Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. LimitedInventors: Cedric Corpa De La Fuente, Constantinos Nikou, Branislav Jaramaz
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Patent number: 11103230Abstract: A suture thread is used to perform suturing without tying part of or the whole of knots that are supposed to be tied during suturing. A suture thread support body prevents an end of the suture thread from being pulled into a suturing site. A needle accommodation body has a shape of a tube having a through-hole through both ends. The suture thread has the suture thread support body and the needle accommodation body.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Y.JACOBS MEDICAL INC.Inventor: Young Jae Kim
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Patent number: 11103231Abstract: A suture delivery system is described. The system includes an anchor and a cooperating driver, the driver facilitating a delivery of the anchor into the abdominal cavity. The system allows for the deployment of a suture internally into an abdominal wall.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: SHARP FLUIDICS, LLCInventors: Ronan Keating, Gerard Rabbitte, Barry Russell
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Patent number: 11103232Abstract: The present invention relates to a suture which is firmly maintained and fixed to an operation site to stably sustain suturing or lifting effects for a long time. More specifically, the present invention provides a suture having a conic or pyramidal shape with a cut top, wherein a suture supporter comprising a communication hole penetrating the both ends is provided at one end. The suture support can have one or more portions which are cut vertically from a lower end at a lower end portion having a larger diameter between the both ends, or a part of the lower end can be removed so as to form one or more gaps formed from the end at a wall of the end portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Y.JACOBS MEDICAL INC.Inventor: Young Jae Kim
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Patent number: 11103233Abstract: A suture anchor may include an anchor body having an exterior surface, a proximal end, a distal end, a longitudinal axis extending between the proximal and distal end, an interior longitudinal passageway extending at least partway from the proximal end toward the distal end, a proximal opening communicating with the longitudinal passageway nearer the proximal end, and a plurality of distal openings communicating with the longitudinal passageway nearer the distal end. The suture anchor may also include a suture routed through the plurality of distal openings, with a first portion extending within the longitudinal passageway between the proximal opening and the distal opening, a second portion, contiguous to the first portion, extending out of the anchor body, a third portion, contiguous to the second portion, extending within the longitudinal passageway proximally to distally, and a fourth portion, contiguous to the third portion, extending along the exterior surface distally to proximally.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLCInventors: T. Wade Fallin, Joel Helgerson
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Patent number: 11103234Abstract: Articulating surgical instruments are disclosed. In one embodiment, a surgical instrument may include an elongated shaft assembly including an articulable portion moveable between a non-articulated configuration and an articulated configuration. First and second articulating shafts of the elongated shaft assembly may be coaxially arranged and axially fixed at an attachment point located distally from the articulable portion. Proximal portions of the first and second articulating shafts may be displaceable in opposing directions to articulate the articulable portion from the non-articulated configuration to the articulated configuration. In another embodiment, an articulation control may be movable from a first position to a second position to move an articulation lock from a locked configuration to an unlocked configuration to selectively permit articulation of a surgical instrument. The articulation lock also may be movable from the second position to a third position to articulate the surgical instrument.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: C.R. Bard, Inc.Inventors: Augustus Felix, Derek J. Leatzow, Nathan Stewart Cauldwell, Derek Affonce, Kevin J. Ranucci, Tomas Matusaitis, Alan Bachman
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Patent number: 11103235Abstract: A rotation adapter for a minimally invasive surgical apparatus is disclosed. The rotation adapter has a proximal journal and a distal journal. The rotation adapter also has a rotation index coupled between the proximal and distal journals. The rotation adapter further has an actuator input and an effector output. A rotation adapter receiver for a minimally invasive surgical apparatus is also disclosed. The rotation adapter receiver has opposing beams and a proximal bushing coupled between the opposing beams. The rotation adapter receiver also has a distal bushing coupled between the opposing beams. The rotation adapter receiver further has a rotation constraint coupled between the opposing beams and positioned between the proximal and distal bushings.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: LSI Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Jude S. Sauer, MD, Jason C. Patti
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Patent number: 11103236Abstract: A suturing system including apparatus and methods for disposing stitches in a substrate comprising a thread carrier which inserts a thread in the substrate at a first location and withdraws the thread from the substrate at a second location.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Cypris Medical, Inc.Inventors: Richard Keith Taylor, Amanda Kay Woodcock, Adam David Hensel
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Patent number: 11103237Abstract: A suture needle container includes a receptacle having a proximal end with an opening and a closed distal end. A hollow mandrel is disposed inside the receptacle. The mandrel projects from the closed distal end toward the opening at the proximal end of the receptacle. The mandrel includes a tubular wall having a proximal end aligned with the proximal end of the receptacle and a distal end connected with the closed distal end of the receptacle. An elongated slot is formed in the tubular wall. A suture needle is disposed within the elongated slot. A suture is secured to the proximal end of the suture needle and wrapped around the hollow mandrel. A cover closes the opening at the proximal end of the receptacle for sealing the suture needle and the suture inside the receptacle for maintaining a sterile environment inside the receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.Inventors: Christophe Vailhe, Doug Souls
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Patent number: 11103238Abstract: A surgical fastener is provided for various surgical fastening applications, including attaching an implantable prosthesis, such as a soft tissue repair fabric, to tissue and/or muscle. The surgical fastener may include a coil body and a separate head that is attached to the coil body. The head may include two or more radial wings extending in an outward radial direction from the head body. Each wing may include an external thread to engage with a corresponding internal thread of a delivery device. Each wing may be spaced from an adjacent wing by an opening therebetween to receive a drive member for driving the surgical fastener. The coil body may be attached to the center of the head. A proximal-most coil of the coil body may be spaced from a distal face of the head to form a gap therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: C.R. Bard, Inc.Inventors: Kevin J. Ranucci, Saurav V. Gupta
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Patent number: 11103239Abstract: An apparatus including a first leg; a second leg distant from the first leg; and a bridge extending between and connecting the first leg to the second leg; wherein the bridge is configured such that a length of the bridge between the first leg and the second leg can be incrementally adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Biomet Manufacturing, LLCInventor: Bryce A. Isch
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Patent number: 11103240Abstract: An apparatus and a method are provided for a sterile staple implant kit that a surgeon may unpack and utilize during a surgery. The staple implant kit comprises a group of complementary surgery-specific instruments that are packaged in a sterile state. An instrument tray is configured to preserve the instruments in the sterile state until the staple implant kit is opened during the surgery. The instrument tray is configured to provide the surgeon with easy access to the instruments during the surgery. The staple implant kit comprises at least a staple inserter and a surgical staple suitable for being implanted in parallel holes drilled across a bone fusion or fixation site of a patient. The surgical staple preferably is loaded in a relaxed configuration into the staple inserter. A staple retention clip retains the surgical staple in the staple inserter until the staple is distracted during the surgery.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: In2Bones USA, LLCInventors: Rebecca Hawkins Wahl, Alan G. Taylor, Casey M. Chambers
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Patent number: 11103241Abstract: A surgical cutting and fastening device is disclosed including a handle assembly, a power supply, and a control circuit. The handle assembly includes a motor configured to drive a cutting member. The control circuit operably couples the power supply and the motor. A firing switch allows the power supply to provide power to the motor in a first energizing direction. A forward control circuit is configured to control current flow from the power supply to the motor. The forward control circuit includes a first flow path and a second flow path including a power control switch. The power control switch prevents current from flowing through the second flow path. The power control switch allows current to flow through the first flow path and the second flow path. A reverse flow path is configured to allow the power supply to provide power to the motor in a second energizing direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Cilag GmbH InternationalInventors: David C. Yates, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Bret W. Smith, Brett E. Swensgard
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Patent number: 11103242Abstract: A surgical stapling device is provided. The surgical stapling device includes a handle assembly, an adapter assembly removably and selectively attachable to the handle assembly, and a loading unit removably and selectively attachable to the adapter assembly. The adapter assembly extends from the handle assembly for transmitting actuating forces from the handle assembly to the loading unit. The adapter assembly includes a connector assembly. The loading unit includes a shell member and a housing extending from an inner surface of the shell member. The surgical stapling device further includes a chip assembly disposed within the housing and moveable relative to the shell member to facilitate connection with the connector assembly of the adapter assembly.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Covidien LPInventor: Justin Williams
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Patent number: 11103243Abstract: A buttress applier cartridge assembly includes buttress assemblies and a buttress applier cartridge for use with an end effector of a surgical stapler. The buttress assemblies each include a buttress to support a staple formed therein as well an adhesive for adhering to the end effector. The buttress applier cartridge includes a housing and a platform that extends longitudinally and supports the buttress assemblies. The buttress applier cartridge further includes a predefined pocket in the platform between each buttress assembly that allows a curved tip of the end effector to pass through. The platform is thinner along a central axis and becomes progressively thicker in the lateral direction. In some examples the predefined pocket is a slit in the platform.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Cilag GmbH InternationalInventors: Gregory J. Bakos, Jason L. Harris, Pamela M. Ridgley, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Michael J. Vendely, Mark S. Zeiner
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Patent number: 11103244Abstract: A surgical instrument includes a body, a shaft, and an end effector that is operable to compress, staple, and cut tissue. The end effector includes a pair of jaws. One of the jaws has a greater thickness than the other. On the thicker jaw is a placement tip that is elastically deformable from a biased curved position when the tip is subject to a force, such as the force exerted when tissue is clamped between the jaws. The placement tip extends distally from the distal end of the jaw to which it is attached. The placement tip can have a variety of shapes. The placement tip is made of a material having a lower stiffness than the material of the jaw from which the placement tip extends.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Cilag GmbH InternationalInventors: Jason L. Harris, Gregory J. Bakos, Chester O. Baxter, III, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Daniel Baber
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Patent number: 11103245Abstract: A method is used to manufacture a knife of an end effector of a surgical instrument. The method includes forming the knife using metal injection molding. The knife has at least one feature having a molded shape. The method also includes machining the at least one feature of the knife to have a machined shape without machining the entire knife. The method also includes incorporating the knife into the end effector of the surgical instrument.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Cilag GmbH InternationalInventors: Anil K. Nalagatla, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Chester O. Baxter, III, Jerome R. Morgan, Jason L. Harris
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Patent number: 11103246Abstract: A surgical system includes a handle having a controller and a motor, an adapter releasably coupled to the handle, and a loading unit releasably coupled to the adapter. The motor is coupled to a drive shaft of the handle. The adapter including an adapter identification device in communication with the controller, configured to store adapter data, and to communicate the adapter data to the controller. The loading unit configured to affect tissue in response to a force transmitted by the adapter from the drive shaft. The loading unit including a loading unit identification device in communication with the controller, configured to store loading unit data, and to communicate the loading unit data to the controller. The controller is configured to adjust output of a motor based on at least one of the adapter data or the loading unit data.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Stanislaw Marczyk, Stanislaw Kostrzewski, Philip Irka, David Racenet
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Patent number: 11103247Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses for a surgical handle assembly. An example apparatus includes a movable handle member and a switch configured to provide two or more modes of operation for the movable handle member and a driving pawl pivotally connected to a swing wheel configured to advance an actuation shaft linearly in a distal direction in response to actuation of the movable handle member.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Lexington Medical, Inc.Inventors: Leon Amariglio, Gonen Somekh, Shani Mann
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Patent number: 11103248Abstract: A surgical staple cartridge is disclosed comprising a plurality of staples removably stored within the surgical staple cartridge. The staples comprise staple legs which extend from a staple base portion in a parallel and offset plane with respect to a plane defined by the staple base portion. Each staple comprises a center of mass aligned with the staple base portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2015Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Cilag GmbH InternationalInventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Chester O. Baxter, III, Jeffrey S. Swayze, Jerome R. Morgan
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Patent number: 11103249Abstract: A method includes inserting into a patient organ a catheter including a position sensor, a device and a handle. The position sensor is attached to a distal end of the catheter. The device is movable along the catheter. The handle includes a control for navigating the device along the catheter to a target location in the patient organ. Based on a location of the position sensor, a target position of the control on the handle that corresponds to the target location of the device is estimated. A marker is set to mark the target position of the control on the handle, and the device is navigated to the target location by setting the control to the marker.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.Inventors: Akram Zoabi, Fady Massarwi
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Patent number: 11103250Abstract: This invention relates to an aneurysm occluder, and more particularly but not exclusively, to an endovascular aneurysm occluder that can be inserted into an aneurysm cavity by using endovascular surgical procedures. The aneurysm occluder, includes a resiliently deformable cage (2) made of a mesh structure in which the mesh structure is cylindrical in cross section and closed off at opposite ends, where the opposite ends are held and closed off with shanks (4).Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2016Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Inventor: Jayandiran Pillai
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Patent number: 11103251Abstract: The present invention relates to an in vivo indwelling member which has a shape complicatedly curved in various directions and can easily spread inside an aneurysm, while adhering to an inner wall of the aneurysm to prevent falling off therefrom, improving an indwelling density, and maintaining good operability. Shapes of two or more three-dimensional portions (middle solid 4A, large solid 4B) are provided in a primary coil 11. Each three-dimensional portion is formed by continuously providing at least four curved parts (51a to 51e/52a to 52f) over four planes. Normal directions of the four planes each have a relationship perpendicular to a predetermined common axis (a1/a2) direction. Each of the at least four curved parts (51a to 51e/52a to 52f) is formed on any of the respective planes of a quadrangular virtual cylindrical body as seen from the common axis (a1/a2) surrounded by the four planes.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATIONInventor: Kazutaka Tsukumo
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Patent number: 11103252Abstract: The device includes a braided component formed from a network of wires having at least two different diameters. The outer surface of the braided component has roughness from about 30 microns to about 90 microns and the wires of different diameters provide the desired porosity to the device. The network of wires includes a biocompatible shape memory alloy and a noble metal as a coating material.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Inventor: Swaminathan Jayaraman
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Patent number: 11103253Abstract: An embolization scaffold device. The scaffold has a base having a central longitudinal axis extending therethrough and a plurality of expandable struts extending from the base. Each of the struts has a proximal portion extending from the base and substantially aligned with the central longitudinal axis, an intermediate arcuate portion radially extending away from the central longitudinal axis, and a distal portion curving back towards the central longitudinal axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: MEDSTAR HEALTHInventor: Jeffrey Mai
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Patent number: 11103254Abstract: A battery and control module to which a powered surgical tool is releasably attached. Internal to the module there is: a cell for energizing the tool; a sensor for monitoring an operational state of the tool; a sensor for monitoring a trigger external to the module; and a control circuit. Based on the signals output by the sensors, the control circuit selectively applies energization signals from the cell to the power generating unit internal to the surgical tool. In some versions of the invention, the trigger is attached to the module.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventor: Michael Irvine
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Patent number: 11103255Abstract: A reamer operably connected to a movable drive element by a translation assembly such that the movement of the movable drive element rotates the reamer. The reamer can be sized such that the reamer can be navigated through or around soft tissue to position the reamer adjacent the defect region and angled to align the reamer with a reamer axis perpendicular to the plane of the defect region. The translation assembly can be configured to translate rotation of the movable drive element to the reamer through an opening through or around the soft tissue. The translation assembly can permit axial reaming of the defect region when the perpendicular axis is obscured by soft tissue.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2016Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Zimmer, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Rolfe Hopkins, Philippe Favre