Patents Issued in February 8, 2024
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Publication number: 20240041542Abstract: A surgical system and method involve a robotic system with a base and a localizer that monitors a tracker supported by the robotic system. Sensor(s) are coupled to the robotic system and/or the localizer. Controller(s) determine a relationship between the base and the localizer. The controller(s) monitor the relationship to detect an error related to one or both of the robotic system and the localizer. The controller(s) utilize the sensor(s) to determine a cause of the error.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: MAKO Surgical Corp.Inventor: Michael Dale Dozeman
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Publication number: 20240041543Abstract: An assembly for driving movement of an elongate surgical tool, comprising: a plurality of adjacent pairs of driving wheels, each pair of driving wheels having a space therebetween such that spaces of the plurality of pairs of driving wheels are axially aligned to form a channel for the elongate surgical tool to extend through; wherein at least one pair of driving wheels out of the plurality of pairs is arranged to lie on a plane different than a plane on which at least one other pair of driving wheels lies.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicants: Microbot Medical Ltd., Technion Research & Development Foundation LimitedInventors: Simon SHARON, Idan BOADER, Evgeny KOFMAN, Zev SOHN, Moshe SHOHAM, Eran COHEN, Eyal MORAG
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Publication number: 20240041544Abstract: A surgical system and method of operating the same. A manipulator supports and facilitates movement of a surgical tool along a tool path relative to a surgical site. A navigation system includes a localizer to monitor states of the manipulator and the surgical site. Controller(s) determine a commanded state of the surgical tool and an actual state of the surgical tool relative to the tool path for a given time step. The controller(s) detect a deviation between the commanded state and the actual state of the surgical tool for the given time step. The controller(s) respond to the deviation by modification of one or both of: a feed rate of the surgical tool; and the tool path. In some implementations, the controller(s) predict, based on the deviation, a future deviation between a future commanded state and a future actual state of the surgical tool for a given future time step.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: MAKO Surgical Corp.Inventors: Douglas Alan Staunton, Paul Hoekstra, Michael Dale Dozeman
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Publication number: 20240041545Abstract: Engaging and/or homing is provided for a motor control of a surgical tool in a surgical robotic system. Where two or more motors are to control the same motion, the motors may be used to detect engagement even where no physical stop is provided. The motors operate in opposition to each other or in a way that does not attempt the same motion, resulting in one of the motors acting as a stop for the other motor in engagement. A change in motor operation then indicates the engagement. The known angles of engaged motors and the transmission linking the motor drives to the surgical tool indicate the home or current position of the surgical tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Renbin Zhou, Haoran Yu, Sina Nia Kosari
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Publication number: 20240041546Abstract: Disclosed herein are various medical device components, including components that can be incorporated into robotic and/or in vivo medical devices. Also disclosed are various medical devices for in vivo medical procedures. Included herein, for example, is a surgical robotic device having an elongate device body, a right robotic arm coupled to a right shoulder assembly, and a left robotic arm coupled to a left shoulder assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Jack Mondry, Shane Farritor, Eric Markvicka, Thomas Frederick, Joe Bartels
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Publication number: 20240041547Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods and devices for a computing device, robot and/or navigational assistance system to increase the accuracy of surgical access to the targeted vertebral segment, vertebral bony preparation, selecting the proper implant size and/or implant positioning, which will optimize the restoration of spinal alignment and/or range of motion to a desirable degree.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Christian Davis, Marc M. Peterman, Steven C. Humphreys, Scott Hodges, Ron Yarbrough
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Publication number: 20240041548Abstract: A surgical robot according to this disclosure includes a wiring-line set that is arranged in a robot arm so that the wiring-line set extends in a longitudinal direction of the robot arm, and passes through a rotation axis of a first joint, which is configured to rotate in a bending direction of the robot arm, and through a plane orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the robot arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenichirou TANIMOTO, Fumiya MATSUMOTO, Tetsuya NAKANISHI
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Publication number: 20240041549Abstract: A surgical robot according to this disclosure includes the joint including an electric motor, a first speed reducer configured to reduce a speed of rotation of the electric motor, and to provide the speed-reduced rotation, a gear part configured to further reduce the speed of the rotation provided from the first speed reducer, and to provide the further-speed-reduced rotation, and a second speed reducer configured to reduce the further-speed-reduced rotation provided from the gear part.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenichirou TANIMOTO, Fumiya MATSUMOTO, Tetsuya NAKANISHI
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Publication number: 20240041550Abstract: A method for controlling a movement of a medical device in a magnetic field, the medical device having a set of coils includes determining a torque that needs to be applied onto the medical device such that the medical device carries out the movement, determining a minimum current that needs to be supplied to each coil of the set of coils, respectively, to reach the determined torque by solving an optimization problem, and supplying the determined minimum current to each coil of the set of coils, respectively, such that the medical device carries out the movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2022Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Metin Sitti, Martin Phelan
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Publication number: 20240041551Abstract: A holder for an elongated medical body suitable for insertion into a patient during a surgical procedure is provided. The holder includes a first outer member having a first inner surface, and a first outer surface, and a second outer member having a second inner surface and a second outer surface. The holder also includes a core extending between the first and second outer members, and at least one holding member placed between the inner surfaces of the first and second outer members. The holding member or holding members are compressible for holding the elongated medical body in the holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Biotex, Inc.Inventors: Patrick Neville, Charles Houssiere, Coleman Leach, David Lawless, Kim Najjar, Ashok Gowda
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Publication number: 20240041552Abstract: Tissue expansion system includes a pump, a controller, and inflatable bladder, and a pressure sensor. The pump is adapted for substantially continuous operation in response to a pressure within a subcutaneously implanted inflatable bladder. The pump is thus able to deliver inflation medium to the bladder when the pressure within the bladder is below a predetermined lower threshold while stopping delivery of the fluid when the pressure rises above a higher threshold or reaches a predetermined maximum volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventor: Joshua Korman
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Publication number: 20240041553Abstract: An apparatus for setting a penetration depth of a sliding part into a receiving part includes a handle piece, which surrounds the sliding part and which is formed for sliding along a longitudinal axis L of the sliding part. The handle piece includes a clamping device with an adjusting element and a rocker element. The handle piece can pivot the respective rocker element into an arresting pose to the sliding part upon rotating the adjusting element into a blocking direction transversely to the longitudinal axis. In the arresting pose, sliding of the handle piece along the longitudinal axis L is blocked. In order to additionally fix the blocking, the handle piece includes a fixing device that has two fixing elements. In the blocking position, the first and second fixing elements exert a retaining force for fixing the adjusting element against rotation transverse to the longitudinal axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Medi-Globe GmbHInventor: Martin STEINIGEWEG
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Publication number: 20240041554Abstract: A system and method for performing a package status check are provided, including a scanner for use in a surgical field and having an antenna for emitting a radio frequency detection field, the scanner including control circuitry configured to determine a predetermined quantity of sponges corresponding to a complete pack of sponges; count a number of sponges associated with the pack with the scanner prior to use of the sponges in a surgical field; and issue an alert when a number of counted sponges does not match the predetermined quantity corresponding to the complete pack. The system and method may include the control circuitry configured to determine whether a sponge has been re-scanned or is unknown by comparing detected information with previously detected information prior.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Stryker CorporationInventors: Steven J. Fleck, David Szakelyhidi, Gautam Gandhi
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Publication number: 20240041555Abstract: An ophthalmic viewing device is provided. The ophthalmic viewing device includes a mounting feature, an upper arm, a lower arm, a first movable mirror, a second mirror, and a lens assembly having a lens frame. When the ophthalmic viewing device is in a first configuration, the movable mirror and the lens frame are outside an on-axis optical path between a visualization device and an eye being visualized. When the ophthalmic viewing device is in a second configuration, the first mirror, the second mirror, and the lens frame are configured to redirect the optical path between the patient's eye and the visualization device to an off-axis optical path that is angled from the eye relative to the on-axis optical path.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventor: Douglas Allen
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Publication number: 20240041556Abstract: The present disclosure relates to visualization systems system for surgical procedures, and more specifically, to an imaging and display support system for ophthalmic visualization systems. The optical system described herein provide improved ergonomics for surgeons, as such systems incorporate an optical head and a corresponding display on a single support arm to provide surgeons a direct and unobstructed view of the corresponding display screen placed in an ergonomically advantageous position for ophthalmic procedures.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventor: Douglas Allen
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Publication number: 20240041557Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program product for controlling operations of a plurality of devices of a medical system are provided. The medical system comprises a plurality of different types of devices of a plurality of different specifications, wherein devices of a different type and/or devices of the same type having a different specification have a different set of available control operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Sony Group CorporationInventor: Junichi YOKOTA
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Publication number: 20240041558Abstract: A system for surgical navigation, including an instrument for a medical procedure attached to a camera and having a spatial position relative to the camera, an x-ray system to acquire x-ray images, and multiple fiducial markers detectable by both the camera and x-ray system, having a radio-opaque material arranged as at least one of a line and a point. A computer receives an optical image from the camera and an x-ray image from the x-ray system, identifies fiducial markers visible in both the optical image and x-ray image, determines for each fiducial marker a spatial position relative to the camera based on the optical image and relative to the x-ray system based on the x-ray image, and determines a spatial position for the instrument relative to the x-ray system based on at least the spatial positions relative to the camera and x-ray system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: The Johns Hopkins UniversityInventors: Jeffrey H. SIEWERDSEN, Niral M. SHETH, Prasad VAGDARGI, Greg M. OSGOOD, Wathudurage Tharindu DE SILVA
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Publication number: 20240041559Abstract: An automated dental drill includes a dental drill housing that includes a mouth piece housing section and a one or more degrees of freedom drive housing section; an end effector drive support having a shaft section that is at least partially positioned in the mouth piece housing section, and an end effector for the cutting of a native tooth or dental appliance to a desired tolerance. The end effector is positioned on the end effector drive support. The automated dental drill also includes a power source that drives the end effector and is coupled to the end effector and a one or more degrees of freedom drive assembly to direct the end effector along one or more degrees of freedom relative to the mouth piece housing section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Christopher John CIRIELLO, James JACKSON, Nathan John MULLER, Brian Edward KING
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Publication number: 20240041560Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an implanting sleeve with function of axial direction checking, relates to the technical field of oral medical instruments, and has the functions of guiding and axial direction checking. The implanting sleeve comprises a sleeve body which can be detachably disposed on a guide plate, the sleeve body is provided with a center hole center hole which allows an implant drill or an implant to pass through, the sleeve body extends and is provided with an extension arm center hole, and a measurement component used for checking the axial direction of the implant drill or the implant is connected to the side of the extension arm away from the guide plate. Through the arrangement of the center hole center hole, the implant drill is guided, and by using of the measurement component, the axial direction of the drilling needle is simply and quickly checked.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2022Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Haiyang Yu, Chenyang Xie, Tinglu Fang, Qin Wu
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Publication number: 20240041561Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for driving an endodontic file head of an endodontic device and for operating a remote pump, the device comprising: a gear for the connection with the endodontic file head; a drive shaft for rotating the gear and for rotating at least one magnet; a first cylindrical element surrounding the drive shaft; a rotatable magnet holding means surrounding the first cylindrical element; at least one magnet fixed in the rotatable magnet holding means; a coil surrounding the rotatable magnet holding means; a second cylindrical element surrounding the coil; a central processing unit; an inner encoder on the central processing unit for measuring the velocity of the drive shaft; a transmitter; an antenna for sending a signal to a remote pump; and at least one sleeve interlinked with the drive shaft for moving the drive shaft by a motorized power handle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: ReDentNova GmbH & CO. KGInventor: Zeev Schreiber
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Publication number: 20240041562Abstract: [Problem] To increase the flexibility, cutting ability, and/or fracture resistance of a dental file. [Solution] A cross-sectional shape of a dental file 100 includes an arc-shaped portion 111, and first to third linear portions 112 to 114 that are continuous sequentially from the arc-shaped portion 111. The diameter of a virtual circle 101 including the arc-shaped portion 111 is configured to decrease from a proximal end portion toward a distal end portion. A connection point 122 between the first and second linear portions 112 and 113, and a connection point 123 between the second and third linear portions 113 and 114 are located inside the virtual circle 101. An angle A11 that a diameter passing through a connection point 121 forms with the first linear portion 112 is set in such a manner as to increase from the proximal end portion toward the distal end portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Kazuhiko MATSUTANI, Masamitsu OGINO, Masahiro TOYODA, Yuto YOSHIZAWA, Hiroaki KOBAYASHI, Atsuya YAGI
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Publication number: 20240041563Abstract: A method includes receiving a digital model of a dentition comprising at least one tooth comprising a plurality of tooth faces, determining a factor of engagement for each of the plurality of tooth faces, determining an addressable area of the at least one tooth based on the factors of engagement of the plurality of tooth faces, identifying an area of engagement of the at least one tooth where the area of engagement comprises at least a portion of the addressable area and where the portion comprises at least one tooth face accessible by a dental appliance to apply a force to the at least one tooth to effectuate the movement, and outputting a controllability score for the at least one tooth based on the area of engagement.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2022Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: SDC U.S. SmilePay SPVInventors: Tim Wucher, Drew Marschner
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Publication number: 20240041564Abstract: Improved orthodontic appliances, along with related systems and methods, are provided. In one aspect, an appliance includes a shell having a plurality of cavities shaped to receive teeth, a discontinuity formed in the shell, and an elastic member positioned to interact with the discontinuity. In another aspect, an appliance includes a plurality of discrete shell segments joined by an elastic material to form a single appliance shell. In another aspect, an appliance includes a shell having an exterior layer and an interior layer having a stiffness less than a stiffness of the exterior layer, and a discontinuity formed in the exterior layer. In another aspect, an appliance includes a shell comprising an interior surface and an exterior surface, and an elastic coating covering at least a portion of one or more of the interior surface or exterior surface of the shell.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Avi Kopelman, Jeeyoung Choi
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Publication number: 20240041565Abstract: A method for making a dental appliance configured to position at least one tooth of a patient includes printing a hard-enable liquid resin composition on a major surface of a polymeric material to form a pattern of discrete unhardened liquid regions thereon; at least partially hardening the unhardened liquid regions to form a corresponding array of structures on the major surface of the polymeric material, wherein the structures have a characteristic cross-sectional dimension of about 25 microns to about 1 mm, and a feature spacing of about 100 microns to about 2000 microns; forming an exterior layer comprising a ion-permeable polymeric material on the base polymeric material and the array of structures; and forming a plurality of cavities in the polymeric material to form the dental appliance including an arrangement of cavities configured to receive one or more teeth.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2022Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Yizhong Wang, Ta-Hua Yu
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Publication number: 20240041566Abstract: An orthodontic self-ligating bracket system with an open auxiliary groove, and a self-ligating bracket. The system includes brackets, wherein each bracket includes a main groove and auxiliary groove, and an elastic baffle plate is between the main and auxiliary grooves; the brackets include first, second and third brackets. The first bracket is arranged on an incisor, the second bracket is arranged on a canine, the third bracket is arranged on a premolar, and the elastic baffle plates of the first bracket, the second bracket and the third bracket are ingeniously arranged, such that an arch wire of the bracket system generates different orthodontic forces at the positions corresponding to different brackets.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventor: Tao LV
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Publication number: 20240041567Abstract: A method of producing a positioning guide for an orthodontic bracket is provided. The method includes determining and fixing a position of the orthodontic bracket in relation to a side surface of a corresponding tooth of a setup dental model, wherein the setup dental model has a dentition state of the patient's dental arch after orthodontic treatment; forming a rigid guiding structure with a first part covering the outer surface of each orthodontic bracket and a second part covering the occlusal surface of the corresponding tooth; and forming a flexible linking structure to connect the first part and the second part of the rigid guiding structure to obtain the positioning guide for the respective orthodontic bracket, wherein the rigid guiding structure is inflexible and the flexible linking structure is elastic and retains form.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventor: Cheng-Hsiang HUNG
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Publication number: 20240041568Abstract: Provided is a dental implant fixture. The dental implant fixture includes: a body portion having an outer wall on which a threaded portion to be placed in an alveolar bone is formed; an abutment contact and support portion formed on an inner wall of the body portion at an entrance side, to which an abutment is coupled and supported in contact therewith; and an internal connection part formed on the inner wall of the body portion in an area where the abutment contact and support portion ends in a direction in which the body portion is placed in the alveolar bone, and having a non-circular cross-sectional structure to allow a predetermined tool for rotational handling of the body portion to be optionally connected thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Kwang Bum PARK, Hyun Wook AN
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Publication number: 20240041569Abstract: A method and associated system. Such is for orthodontic treatment or for assessing shape of an aligner. Within an example, there is participation in communication of an assessment of the suitability of an aligner as a function of the value of: a tooth attribute of an analysis tooth zone of an analysis image, the tooth attribute relating to a separation between the tooth represented by the analysis tooth zone and the aligner represented on the analysis image, or an image attribute of an analysis image, the image attribute relating to a separation between at least one tooth represented on the analysis image and the aligner represented on the analysis image. The analysis image is an image of an aligner in a service position in which it is worn by the patient acquired by a cellphone more than 1 week, and is a photograph, or an image extracted from a film.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Philippe SALAH, Thomas Pellissard, Guillaume Ghyselinck, Laurent Debraux
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Publication number: 20240041570Abstract: An oral treatment device includes intraoral image sensor equipment configured to generate image data representing at least a portion of the oral cavity of a user during use by the user of the oral treatment device. The oral treatment device includes a controller configured to process the generated image data to determine location data indicating a location of an interproximal gap between adjacent teeth in the oral cavity of the user. The controller is configured to process the generated image data using a trained classification algorithm configured to identify interproximal gaps, the trained classification algorithm having been trained prior to the use of the oral treatment device. The controller is configured to, during the use of the oral treatment device, control the oral treatment device to deliver a treatment to the detected interproximal gap based on the location data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Lili TAO, Andrew Collingwood WATSON, Niloufar ZARINABAD NOORALIPOUR, Michele BENETTI, Ehsan NADERNEJAD, Miltiadis Alexios PAPADOPOULOS, Remigijus NORVILIS, Dominic Francis BRADY
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Publication number: 20240041571Abstract: An oral treatment device includes image sensor equipment configured to generate image data indicative of a sequence of images representing at least a portion of an oral cavity of a user. The oral treatment device includes a controller configured to process the image data to determine a movement parameter indicative of movement of the oral treatment device relative to an interproximal gap between adjacent teeth in the oral cavity of the user. The controller is configured to control the oral treatment device to perform an action based on the determined movement parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Lili TAO, Christopher John BATEMAN, Ehsan NADERNEJAD, Miltiadis Alexios PAPADOPOULOS
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Publication number: 20240041572Abstract: An oral treatment device includes image sensor equipment operable to generate image data representing at least a portion of an oral cavity of a user. The oral treatment device includes a controller configured to process the generated image data to identify an interproximal gap between adjacent teeth in the oral cavity of the user. The controller is configured to compare at least one characteristic of the identified interproximal gap with at least one characteristic of one or more previously identified interproximal gaps of the oral cavity of the user. The controller is configured to control the oral treatment device to perform an action based on a result of the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Dyson Technology LimitedInventor: Lili TAO
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Publication number: 20240041573Abstract: A boss assembly for attachment of hardware components to a dental appliance includes an anchor configured to be disposed on an external side of a dental appliance. The anchor has first internal threads on a proximal end and second internal threads on a distal end. The second internal threads are configured to cooperate with external threads of hardware components to be attached. A stud is configured to be disposed on an internal side of a dental appliance. The stud includes a flange on a proximal end and external threads configured to cooperate with the first internal threads of the anchor. The anchor and the stud are configured to join such that a wall of the dental appliance is captured between the anchor and the flange of the stud.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventor: Tyler Sisson
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Publication number: 20240041574Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of a blank of a ceramic material, wherein a first ceramic material and then a second ceramic material of different compositions are filled into a mold and wherein the materials are pressed and after pressing are sintered. Thereby, a layer of the first ceramic material is filled into the mold, a first open cavity is formed in the layer, the second ceramic material is filled into the first open cavity and the materials are pressed together and are then heat-treated. Both the first ceramic material and the second ceramic material contain, or consists of, lithium silicate glass ceramic.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc.Inventors: Markus VOLLMANN, Lothar VOLKL, Stefan FECHER, Carsten WIESNER
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Publication number: 20240041575Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for forming an anti-microbial layer on an apparatus. Also disclosed is a method for improving the anti-bacterial properties of a titanium device coated with titanium-nitride (TiN). Also disclosed is a medical apparatus comprising an anti-microbial layer prepared by the disclosed methods. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Josephine F. Esquivel-Upshaw, Fan Ren, Patrick Carey, Arthur E. Clark, JR., Christopher D. Batich
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Publication number: 20240041576Abstract: A semi-finished product as a pre-product for a dental prosthesis having a prosthesis base, wherein the prosthesis base comprises at least one dental recess for receiving a set of teeth, and wherein the set of teeth is glued into the at least one dental recess by an adhesive. In the dental recess and/or in or at the set of teeth an adhesive channel is configured which extends along the at least one dental recess or the dental arch in its main direction of extension. It starts at an adhesive filling opening whose configuration is adapted to a filling element.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Clemens Andreas Häfele, Robert Wolfgang Krybus, Konrad Hagenbuch
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Publication number: 20240041577Abstract: Bone-secured dental arch veneers and methods for fabricating and utilizing the same. The dental arch veneers include a veneer assembly having one or more tooth veneers and a support structure configured to support the tooth veneer(s). The dental arch veneers also include a coupling structure configured to interconnect the veneer assembly to a bone mount that is anchored along a user's maxilla or mandible. The coupling structure also is configured to permit the veneer assembly to be selectively and repeatedly interconnected with and disconnected from the bone mount. The methods include determining a target region within the user's mouth, obtaining a representation of the target region, manipulating the representation to create a desired arrangement of the user's teeth within the target region, determining anchoring positions proximate the target region for anchoring the bone mount, and forming the dental arch veneer based on the anchoring positions and the desired arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Mark Coreil, Christopher C. Cosse
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Publication number: 20240041578Abstract: An oral irrigator includes a drive assembly, a pump assembly, and a flexible membrane seal. The drive assembly is received within a housing. The pump assembly is positioned at least partially within a pump chamber. The pump assembly includes a piston and a connecting rod coupled to the drive assembly, the connecting rod movable between first and second positions through operation of the drive assembly. The flexible membrane seal extends from an interior surface of the pump chamber to the connecting rod to fluidly seal an open end of the pump chamber. The flexible membrane seal deforms from a first orientation to a second orientation as the connecting rod moves from the first position to the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Harold A. Luettgen, Oscar Senff, Brian Woodard, Blaine Hanson, Jonathan Huber
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Publication number: 20240041579Abstract: The present application provides an integrated oral care apparatus, including: an uneven housing, a composite member, a medium supply unit, a vector generation unit and a medium delivery member, where the uneven housing has a main extension line and oppositely arranged first end and second end, the main extension line extends from the first end of the uneven housing to the second end of the uneven housing, the vector generation unit connects with the composite member through a vector transmission rod, the vector transmission rod has a medium conveying channel, and the first end of the medium conveying channel is communicated with the composite member; the medium delivery member is configured to bridge between the vector generation unit and the medium supply unit, and has a communication channel, and the communication channel is hermetically coupled between the second end of the medium conveying channel and the medium supply unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: SHENZHEN SOOCAS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Junhui LI, Fandi MENG
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Publication number: 20240041580Abstract: An oral care implement handle (200) having a gripping portion (210) and an oral care refill head (300) that is detachably coupled thereto. The oral care implement handle (200) may include the gripping portion (210) and a rocker unit (400) which includes a stem (250), a motor (224), and a motor chassis (410). The rocker unit (400) may be pivotably mounted within the gripping portion (210) so that upon pressure being applied an oral care refill head (300) which is coupled to the stem (250) that exceeds a pressure threshold, the rocker unit (400) may be altered from a normal position to an excessive pressure position. When in the excessive pressure position, the rocker unit (400) may actuate an actuator element (265) of a control unit (260) to initiate generation of a user perceptible signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Jiang ZHOU, Yanmei JI, Tonny HE
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Publication number: 20240041581Abstract: The present disclosure provides an oral care device. The oral care device includes a handle part and a care head part; the handle part includes: a sonic motor including a motor body and a power output shaft, a fluid mechanism provided with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, and a housing including a machine mounting part and a water storage cavity. By using the oral care device provided by the present disclosure, the reasonable layout of a rinsing flow path can be achieved, the overall size of the oral care device can be reduced, it is convenient for a user to perform an operation, and the comfort level provided for a user during use can be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Junhui LI, Fandi MENG
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Publication number: 20240041582Abstract: Disclosed is an oral care device. The oral care device includes a handle part and a care head part, the handle part includes an acoustic motor, and the care head part has a flushing stem parallel to the output axis and a brush head arranged on a head of the flushing stem. According to the oral care device of the present disclosure, a flushing flow path can be reasonably arranged, an overall volume of the oral care device is reduced, it is convenient for a user to operate, and use comfort of the user is improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Junhui LI, Fandi MENG
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Publication number: 20240041583Abstract: A thread-lifting surgical procedure employs an inferior-to-superior method of thread insertion through one or more deep cheek tissue pads, which angles the deep cheek tissue fat pads upward and inward. An inferior-to-superior method of thread insertion is also used for gonial angle insertion vectors through the superficial fat pads. A method for marking the patient prior to performing the thread-lifting surgical procedure is also provided. A computer and computerized method are disclosed for automated planning, execution and display of the present invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventor: Dina BenDavid
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Publication number: 20240041584Abstract: Described herein are breast implant fixation devices for use in breast reconstruction and breast augmentation. Novel wraps are designed to avert lateral displacement and bottoming out of breast implants, reduce capsular contraction and implant extrusion, eliminate skin indentations and ripples caused by breast implants, and reduce or eliminate palpability. The wraps are adapted to securely fold around the breast implants, limiting relative movement between the wrap and breast implant and reducing wrinkles. Tissue in-growth into the wraps limits movement of the wrap-breast implant assembly and thereby limits movement of the breast implant.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Tepha, Inc.Inventors: Skander Limem, German Oswaldo Hohl Lopez, Simon F. Williams
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Publication number: 20240041585Abstract: A method of deploying a modular multibranch stent assembly. The method includes deploying a first modular stent device in an ascending aorta. The first modular stent device includes a main body, a bypass gate extending from the main body, and a bifurcated contra limb extending from the main body. The bifurcated contra limb includes a first distal limb and a second distal limb. The method further includes deploying a first bridging stent graft in the first distal limb and/or a second bridging stent graft in the second distal limb.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Keith PERKINS, Zachary BORGLIN, Mark STIGER, Julie BENTON, Steven CLAESSENS, Travis ROWE, Mark YOUNG
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Publication number: 20240041586Abstract: A method of augmenting or reconstructing a breast of a patient includes providing an implantable member and implanting the implantable member. The implantable member includes an exterior surface defined by an anterior face and a posterior face, wherein one of the anterior face and the posterior face includes at least one fixation region defined by a texture, roughness or sheen different from a respective texture, roughness or sheen of a balance of said one of the anterior face and posterior face. The implantable member is implanted into a breast of a patient such that the fixation region of the implantable member generally aligns with the pectoralis major muscle group or the pectoralis minor muscle group.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Dennis Van Epps, Thomas E. Powell
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Publication number: 20240041587Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface adapted for and/or resulting from, and/or a method and/or machine-readable medium comprising machine-implementable instructions for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, via a device implanted in a mammal, sensing a ciliary muscle movement and/or force and/or converting the ciliary muscle movement and/or force to a signal and/or a predetermined form of power.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc.Inventors: Anthony Van Heugten, Joel Zychick
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Publication number: 20240041588Abstract: An intraocular lens (IOL) for implantation within a capsular bag of a patient's eye comprises an optical structure and a haptic structure. The optical structure comprises a planar member, a plano convex member, and a fluid optical element defined between the planar member and the plano convex member. The fluid optical element has an optical power. The haptic structure couples the planar member and the plano convex member together at a peripheral portion of the optical structure. The haptic structure comprises a fluid reservoir in fluid communication with the fluid optical element and a peripheral structure for interfacing to the lens capsule. Shape changes of the lens capsule cause one or more of volume or shape changes to the fluid optical element in correspondence to deformations in the planar member to modify the optical power of the fluid optical element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Amr Salahieh, Claudio R. Argento, Tom Saul, Bob Vaughan, Eric Willis
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Publication number: 20240041589Abstract: An ossicular prosthesis has first and second fastening elements, a connecting element and rib elements. The rib elements lead directly into coupling regions of the first fastening element within the head plate plane and are movably connected thereto. All rib elements are movably connected to a coupling element and are firmly but detachably connected during operation, the coupling element in turn being rigidly connected at the other end to either the first or the second fastening element. The rib elements form the connecting element with the coupling element and are spread sectionally radially from the longitudinal axis in the middle ear in situ with the introduction of a force parallel to the longitudinal axis and thus shorten the axial functional length of the prosthesis, but increase it with the introduction of a force anti-parallel thereto. The rib elements retain, in situ, their adjusted radial position when no force acts.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Heinz Kurz GmbHInventors: Alexander SANDER, Thomas STIEGELE, Matthias MERTENS, Harald HAAS
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Publication number: 20240041590Abstract: The present invention relates to materials, devices, kits and methods for use in treatment of patients having a sinus condition, including those with (or at risk of having) severe chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) symptoms. More specifically, in some embodiments, a device is a long-acting corticosteroid matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Anders Cervin, Joanne Rimmer, Agnieszka Wrobel, Yogen Abelak, Lindsay Brayton, Yina Kuang
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Publication number: 20240041591Abstract: Disclosed are a lifting suture for rhinoplasty and a manufacturing method thereof. A manufacturing method of a lifting suture according to one embodiment of the present disclosure may include forming a lifting suture including a first region and a second region, each of which has cogs formed therein, and forming a connecting region by pressing the lifting suture while the first region and the second region are bent so that a first angle is formed therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventor: Hae seok OH