Patents Issued in June 18, 2024
  • Patent number: 12011138
    Abstract: A connection device for the fluidic connection of a suction tube to a function unit. The connection device includes a first hollow-cylindrical connection section and a second hollow-cylindrical connection section. One of the connection sections is connectable or connected to the suction tube and the other connection section is connectable or connected to the function unit. One of the connection sections is located at least partly within the other connection section and with its outer periphery bears on the inner periphery of the other connection section, where the two connection sections are rotatably mounted, in order to provide a rotation compensation for the suction tube, and where an electrical connection for providing an antistatic function exists between the two connection sections. The first connection section includes a spring section which is deformable in the radial direction and with which the bearing contact on the second connection element takes place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: FESTOOL GmbH
    Inventor: Steffen Maier
  • Patent number: 12011139
    Abstract: A robotic device comprising: an energy storage device; and a controller configured to determine whether a quantity of energy stored in the energy storage device is below a predetermined energy level, wherein: the robotic device is configured to perform a cleaning task if the determined quantity of energy is not below the predetermined energy level; if the determined quantity of energy is below the predetermined energy level: the controller is configured to estimate a likelihood of the robotic device being capable of locating a recharging base station; and in dependence on the estimated likelihood, the robotic device is configured to seek the recharging base station or perform the cleaning task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Black & Decker, Inc.
    Inventor: Graham Bone
  • Patent number: 12011140
    Abstract: A control system and method which automatically responds to a stalling motor due to a brush head binding or hanging event, and which automatically prevents backlash damage to the electronics when the brush head is freed from it's constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Rotobrush International LLC
    Inventors: James Kevin McCoy, Jared A. Smothermon, Jeffrey Alan Garrett
  • Patent number: 12011141
    Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention may include: a dust suction part; a body part including a motor for generating suction force of the electronic device and a battery module operable by a power source of the motor; and an extension pipe combined between the dust suction part and the body part and providing a passage for moving foreign substances absorbed through the dust suction part to the body part, wherein the extension pipe may include a pipe-type external case, a supercapacitor module disposed in an inner space of the pipe-type external case and including a hollow space used as the passage, and a first docking connector for transmitting electrical energy of the supercapacitor module to the motor when the body part is combined to the extension pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Inventor: Jaekwang Seo
  • Patent number: 12011142
    Abstract: This electronic endoscope system includes an evaluation unit that evaluates an extent of a lesion by processing an image inside an organ image-captured by an electronic endoscope. The evaluation unit includes: an image evaluation value calculation unit that calculates an image evaluation value for the captured image; a lesion evaluation unit that calculates a representative evaluation value of image evaluation values from the image evaluation value for each of a plurality of spaces to evaluate the spread of the lesion; and a lesion evaluation adjustment unit that sets, for an empty section for which a representative evaluation value is not generated, as an estimated representative evaluation value, one image evaluation value for a non-empty section, or a representative evaluation value obtained on the basis of the image evaluation value, and that assigns the estimated representative evaluation value to the empty section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: HOYA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryohey Koizumi
  • Patent number: 12011143
    Abstract: Medical software tools platform utilizes a surgical display to provide access to specific medical software tools, such as medically-oriented applications or widgets, that can assist those in the operating room, such as a surgeon or surgical team, with a surgery. For various embodiments, the medical software tools platform and its associated medical software tools are presented on a surgical display (e.g., being utilized in an operating room) over an image stream provided by a surgical camera (e.g., in use in the operating room or with other endoscopic procedures). Various medical software tools can provide features and functions that can facilitate integration of equipment in an operating room or add medical context awareness to anatomic structures presented in the image stream from the surgical camera and provide archived information pertaining to the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Inventor: Jack Wade
  • Patent number: 12011144
    Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to devices, systems, and methods for controlling the flow of fluids in endoscopic systems, such as endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) enabled endoscopes. Some embodiments are particularly directed to valve sets and/or valve interface mechanisms for controlling air, water, and/or suction flow through a valve well for an endoscopic system. Several embodiments are directed to user interface mechanisms and techniques for enabling an operator to interact with and control endoscope valves. Many embodiments are directed to mechanisms and techniques for translating interface input motion into valve control motions. In one or more embodiments, the valve sets and/or valve interface mechanisms may be disposable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Shaun D. Comee, Nathan T. Cummings, Paula R. Limberg, Laura E. Richards
  • Patent number: 12011145
    Abstract: An endoscope distal end structure includes: an imager, a distal end frame that is a three-dimensional molded interconnect device including a housing portion and a cable connecting portion, the cable connecting portion including a cable connection electrode, the housing portion being formed by cutting out at least a part of an outer peripheral portion of the distal end frame, the housing portion having a bottom surface on which connection terminals are formed, and a first side surface and a second side surface which are continuous to each other and on which a ground pattern is formed, a through hole having electrical conductivity, the through hole penetrating from the bottom surface to the cable connecting portion, and an electrical conductive pattern connecting a cable connection electrode and the ground pattern, the electrical conductive pattern being arranged on a side surface of the distal end frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sumio Wakito, Masayoshi Miura, Satoru Adachi, Hiroyuki Motohara, Shigeru Hosokai
  • Patent number: 12011146
    Abstract: A method of assembly of an endoscope control system including: holding a first control wheel unit in a position; moving a second control wheel unit in an assembly direction to position the second control wheel unit on the first control wheel unit; moving a housing frame in the assembly direction to position the housing frame on the second control wheel unit; moving a second shaft unit in the assembly direction so that a second shaft is positioned to extend through the connection hole of the housing frame and snaps into engagement with the second control wheel unit; and moving a first shaft unit in the assembly direction so that a first shaft is positioned through the second shaft and snaps into engagement with the first control wheel unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: AMBU A/S
    Inventor: Martin Johst Christensen
  • Patent number: 12011147
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an actuation device that comprises: (a) a device body that comprises a first fixation mechanism configured to affix a proximal end of a first elongate member of an accessory device to the device body, (b) an actuator that comprises an operable mechanism and a second fixation mechanism configured to affix a proximal end of a second elongate member of the accessory device to the actuator, wherein the operable mechanism is configured to move the second elongate member relative to the first elongate member, and (c) a fastener configured to attach the device body to an endoscope. The present disclosure further provides endoscopic systems comprising an actuation device of this type in an assembly with an endoscope and an accessory device, and also provides kits that comprise an actuation device of this type and one or more accessory devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Catherine Yee, Shawn Ryan, Norman May, Naroun Suon
  • Patent number: 12011148
    Abstract: A surgical system which may include a controller, a data entry device, a powered surgical handpiece and a surgical tool adapted to couple to the surgical handpiece. The surgical handpiece can include motor direction control and feedback, safety stop features, stimulation and nerve integrity monitoring, a tool connector assembly configured to retain a variety of surgical tools and optional navigation and/or electric ratcheting features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC XOMED, INC
    Inventors: Michael L. Koltz, Christopher L Fair, Michael S. Ferrell, Andrzej Klimaszewski, David J. Little, II, Manfred K. Luedi, Gerould Norman, Robert K. Vaccaro
  • Patent number: 12011149
    Abstract: Co-manipulation robotic systems are described herein that may be used for assisting with laparoscopic surgical procedures. The co-manipulation robotic systems allow a surgeon to use commercially-available surgical tools while providing benefits associated with surgical robotics. Advantageously, the surgical tools may be seamlessly coupled to the robot arms using a disposable coupler while the reusable portions of the robot arm remain in a sterile drape. Further, the co-manipulation robotic system may operate in multiple modes to enhance usability and safety, while allowing the surgeon to position the instrument directly with the instrument handle and further maintain the desired position of the instrument using the robot arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Moon Surgical SAS
    Inventors: David Paul Noonan, Jad Fayad, Victoria Cheng-Ten Wu, Jeffery Byron Alvarez, Ehsan Basafa, Nicolas Linard
  • Patent number: 12011150
    Abstract: A disposable device for tissue retraction, including first and second elongated curved members, each having respective proximal and distal ends, a hinge pivotably connecting first and second elongated curved members, wherein first and second curved members curve away from one another, a first blade extending from the distal end of the first elongated curved member, and a second blade extending from the distal end of the second elongated curved member. The device further includes a first latching portion extending from the proximal end of the first elongated curved member, a second latching portion extending from the proximal end of the second elongated curved member, and a third bladed elongated member lockingly engageable to the hinge. The first and second latching portions are lockingly engageable. The retractor is made of a generally electrically insulating nonmagnetic radiolucent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Inventor: Eric McCormick
  • Patent number: 12011151
    Abstract: Among other things, there is disclosed structure and methods for maintaining access to a location in the body while reducing or eliminating the potential for pulling an access device (e.g. a catheter) back through an opening. An introducer sheath includes a distal indented portion and a balloon, so that once placed in a desired location through tissue, the balloon can be inflated to anchor the sheath against retraction. In particular embodiments, structure and methods for accessing the pericardial cavity via the right atrial appendage are shown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignees: Muffin Incorporated, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
    Inventors: Shaun Davis Gittard, Gregory James Hardy, John C. Sigmon, Jr., Jeremy T. Newkirk, William J. Havel, Neal E. Fearnot, Toby Rogers, Kanishka Ratnayaka, Robert L. Lederman
  • Patent number: 12011152
    Abstract: A retractor with a specialized blade head assembly. The blade head assembly has a central plate. The central plate extends between a first side edge and a second side edge. A first rotatable arm is attached to the first side edge with a first hinge joint. A second rotatable arm is attached to the second side edge with a second hinge joint. Both rotatable arms can be rotated about the hinge joints. Both the first hinge joint and the second hinge joint are friction hinges that require a threshold force to move. An elongated shaft interconnects with the central plate at a pivot joint. The elongated shaft can be attached to the blade head assembly after the blade head assembly has been inserted into a patient's body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: USB Medical Limited
    Inventors: John J Sinisi, Jesse Sinisi, Stephen T Epstein, Mario Castillo-Sang, Rochus K Voeller
  • Patent number: 12011153
    Abstract: An introducer sheath system including an outer layer, an inner layer, and a dilator is disclosed. The outer layer is circumferentially extending between a first longitudinal edge and a second longitudinal edge. An expandable gap is defined between the first and second longitudinal edges. The inner layer is disposed within the outer layer. The inner layer is configured to be continuously circumferentially expandable. The inner layer includes a non-extended state having a circumferential portion extending circumferentially inside the outer layer and a fold portion extending into an interior cavity of the inner layer. The inner layer includes an extended state wherein the fold portion extends at least partially circumferentially between the first and second longitudinal edges. The dilator is extendable longitudinally within the inner layer. The dilator includes a recess configured to accommodate the fold portion of the inner layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC VASCULAR, INC.
    Inventor: Marc Anderson
  • Patent number: 12011154
    Abstract: A bone staple device includes a base; and two legs extending parallel from the base, the two legs each having a tapered end opposite the base; and a cutout region extending through a thickness of the base, the cutout region forming a petal protruding away from the leg; the bone staple device serving as a suture anchor to affix directly to soft tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Inventor: Oke A. Anakwenze
  • Patent number: 12011155
    Abstract: Tissue fixation and repair constructs and methods of repair using the same are provided. An exemplary tissue fixation and repair construct can include a first implantable anchor coupled to a suture having a fixed tail and a tensioning tail. The fixed tail can include an overhand knot located distally adjacent to the finger trap, such that the overhand knot substantially abuts the finger trap when adjacent thereto, a fixed stopper knot configured to prevent further movement of the fixed tail through a second implantable anchor when the second implantable anchor is placed onto the suture, and a finger trap. The tensioning tail can be passed through the finger trap and overhand knot, and can be used to adjust the tension of the tissue fixation and repair construct when the first implantable anchor and the second implantable anchor are inserted into bone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Medos International Sarl
    Inventors: Mehmet Ziya Sengun, Joseph Algeri
  • Patent number: 12011156
    Abstract: A surgical fixation system can include a fixation device, a loop connected to the fixation device, a graft carried by the loop, and a reinforcement material. Surgical fixation systems can be used in various tissue reconstruction procedures, including but not limited to, ACL and PCL reconstructions. The graft and the reinforcement material may be tensioned independently of one another to avoid stress shielding the graft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: ARTHREX, INC.
    Inventors: Samuel Bachmaier, Coen Wijdicks, Stefan Krupp, Adrian Wilson, Patrick Smith, Jacob Jolly
  • Patent number: 12011157
    Abstract: A surgical instrument having an anchor and a plug is capable of anchoring a suture. The suture anchor has an anchor body having a top surface, a bottom surface distal to the top surface, a transverse bore and a well, the well having an outer surface, an inner surface, and an inner bottom surface. The plug has a post, a head, and a bottom face. The anchor body and the anchor plus form a suture anchor. The suture anchor may be used during surgical procedures and can be used in the re-tensioning of a suture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Inventor: Lee D. Kaplan
  • Patent number: 12011158
    Abstract: A surgical stitching device is configured for single hand operation that enables passage of a suture needle through tissue with minimal operational requirement. The surgical needle is selectively securable to first and second jaws that are pivotably coupled to each other. When the first and second jaws are in an open configuration, in which, the first and second jaws are spaced apart, the suture needle is detachably secured to the first and second jaws. When the first and second jaws are in a closed configuration, in which, the first and second jaws are approximated, the suture needle is detachably secured to one of the first and second jaws and is detached from the other one of the first and second jaws. Such single hand operation facilitates procedures such as, e.g., extraterritorial loop suture closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Joe D. Sartor, Alexander J. Grocholski, Shayne M. Albertson, Kyle A. Sherman, William J. Bowen, III, Theodore S. Chamberlain, Christopher S. Bautista, Taron J. Lard, Drew M. Wilson
  • Patent number: 12011159
    Abstract: A method and device for anchoring a length of self-retaining suture. The method of anchoring includes providing for an assembly having a length of self-retaining suture and a suture insertion device. The length of suture includes at least a portion of the length having a plurality of retainers thereon extending in a first direction. The insertion device has a length and a recess to receive a portion of the suture length. The method further includes placing a portion of the suture length in the recess and inserting the device into the body of a mammal until the recess reaches a predetermined location thereby forming an insertion pathway. The method further includes retrieving the insertion device from the body by moving the insertion device in a direction substantially opposed to the insertion pathway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony R. Megaro, Matthew A. Megaro
  • Patent number: 12011160
    Abstract: An apparatus for suturing tissue, comprising: a needle having a beveled opening and housing multiple anchors, wherein each of said anchors comprises an elongated tubular body and a loop connected to said tubular body, and wherein a thread is threaded sequentially through the loops; and a pushrod configured to push each of said anchors towards the opening of said needle, to extract each respective anchor from the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: ANCHORA MEDICAL LTD.
    Inventors: Jonatan Epstein, Avraham Rami Lore, Rotem Baavour, Gonen Yuval, Ohad Cohen, Amir Richtman
  • Patent number: 12011161
    Abstract: A needle camera adaptor includes a tube-shaped body having a proximal end, a distal end, a longitudinal axis, and a lumen that extends along the longitudinal axis. A centrally-located lateral access opening is formed in an outer wall of the tube-shaped body. A needle securing channel is formed in the outer wall and extends between the lateral access opening and the distal end of the tube-shaped body. A curved suture needle is disposed within the needle securing channel. The needle securing channel and the curved suture needle extend along an axis that defines an oblique angle with the longitudinal axis of the needle camera adaptor. A visualization device, facing distally, is positioned within the lumen at the proximal end of the tube-shaped body. The lateral access opening, the needle securing channel, and the curved suture needle are located within a field of view of the visualization device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Ethicon, Inc.
    Inventors: Doug Souls, Robert Rousseau, Alexander M. Cannara, Noha Elmouelhi, Jared Schneider, Wayne Holloway
  • Patent number: 12011162
    Abstract: Reinforced surgical constructs and methods of tissue repairs. A surgical construct can offer both repair and shuttling capabilities to allow for a single pass to load multiple sutures at once. A surgical construct includes one or more repair sutures provided with one or more junctions (one or more releasable stitches), to allow the repair sutures to be joined and subsequently released. At least one of the one or more junctions (releasable stitches) can be formed by weaving back and forth another flexible strand (releasing suture) through the one or more repair sutures. When the flexible strand is pulled, it pulls out the one or more junctions (releasable stitches) from the repair sutures, freeing the repair sutures. The surgical construct may be part of a knotless or knotted construct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Arthrex, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Dooney, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12011163
    Abstract: Tissue irregularity complication(s) may be predicted based on biomarker measurements obtained before a surgery and/or during the surgery via one or more sensing systems. For example, a computing system may monitor the patient biomarker(s) including tissue perfusion pressure, lactate, oxygen saturation, VO2Max, respiration rate, autonomic tone, sweat rate, heart rate variability, skin conductance, GI motility, edema and/or hydration state. Based on the prediction, the computing system may generate a control signal configured to alter a matter in which a surgical cutting and stapling device and/or a surgical energy operate, to adjust a surgical procedure plan, to adjust a surgical instrument selection, indicate a probability of the tissue irregularity complication, and/or to indicate a suggested adjustment to surgical procedure plan, surgical approach, and/or surgical instrument selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Chad E. Eckert, Jason L. Harris
  • Patent number: 12011164
    Abstract: A surgical stapling instrument includes a shaft assembly and an end effector. The end effector includes a first jaw having an anvil, a second jaw configured to removably receive a staple cartridge, and a driving assembly translatable distally through the second jaw for pivoting the second jaw toward the first jaw to clamp tissue between the first jaw and the second jaw. The instrument also includes a lockout mechanism configured to transition between a first state in which the lockout mechanism prevents distal translation of the driving assembly through the second jaw, and a second state in which the lockout mechanism permits distal translation of the driving assembly through the second jaw. The lockout mechanism is configured to transition from the first state to the second state when the staple cartridge is removably received by the second jaw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Kevin M. Fiebig, Adam D. Hensel, Gregory J. Bakos
  • Patent number: 12011165
    Abstract: A surgical stapling instrument comprising an end effector is disclosed. The end effector comprises an anvil and a cartridge jaw comprising a channel. A staple cartridge is replaceably seated in the channel. The staple cartridge comprises a longitudinal slot extending from a proximal end toward a distal end, a first longitudinal row of staple cavities extending alongside the longitudinal slot, and second and third longitudinal rows of staple cavities extending alongside the first longitudinal row. Staples are removably positioned in the staple cavities. A double staple driver supports a staple from the first row and a staple from the second row. A single staple driver supports a staple from the third row. A sled comprises first and second camming surfaces configured to drive the double staple driver and the single staple driver toward the anvil, respectively. Distal ends of the first and second camming surfaces are staggered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Michael E. Setser
  • Patent number: 12011166
    Abstract: A surgical instrument that includes a shaft assembly that defines a shaft axis and includes a proximal articulation joint that defines a first articulation axis that is transverse to the shaft axis and a distal articulation joint that defines a second articulation axis that is transverse to the shaft axis and the first articulation axis. The instrument further includes an anvil that is non-removably attached to the shaft assembly and a channel that is removably attachable to the shaft assembly and configured to operably support a surgical staple cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Chester O. Baxter, III, Jason L. Harris
  • Patent number: 12011167
    Abstract: A system and method of variable velocity control of an instrument by a computer-assisted device includes a computer-assisted device that includes an actuator and one or more processors. To perform an operation with an instrument coupled to the computer-assisted device, the one or more processors are configured to set a velocity set point of the actuator to an initial velocity, monitor force or torque applied by the actuator to actuate the instrument, when the applied force or torque is above a first force or torque limit, determine whether a total duration of a set of pauses occurring during the operation of the instrument is below a maximum pause threshold, and in response to determining that the total duration is below the maximum pause threshold, pause the operation of the instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: David W. Weir, Gabriel F. Brisson, William A. Burbank, Amir Chaghajerdi, Patrick Flanagan, Pushkar Hingwe, Andrew Wilson, Donald F. Wilson, Jr., Matthew A. Wixey
  • Patent number: 12011168
    Abstract: A surgical instrument includes an elongate shaft and an end effector. The end effector includes a jaw, and a coupling member configured to receive a first and second reload and to removably couple the first and second reload to the end effector. The coupling member is configured to retain the first reload in a closed position relative to the jaw such that the jaw and the first reload have a tissue gap therebetween. The coupling member is configured to retain the second reload in a closed position relative to the jaw such that the jaw and the second reload have a tissue gap therebetween that is larger than the first tissue gap. The instrument is designed to accommodate reloads with different tissue gaps between the first jaw and the reload, thereby allowing an operator to treat tissue of varying sizes, shapes and thicknesses with the same surgical instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Matthew Wixey
  • Patent number: 12011169
    Abstract: A surgical stapler is provided that includes a spring loaded lift that automatically adjusts a staple cartridge and/or staple formation between a range of sizes. The lift is automatically released as the staple firing mechanism begins its forward translation of the firing sequence. The automatic one-way adjustment also adjusts the staple cartridge while maintaining the cartridge parallel to the anvil to provide consistent staple formations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Medical Resources Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew M. Becerra, Steven E. Decker, Timothy M. Hopkins, Atal C. Patel, Babak D. Jasemian
  • Patent number: 12011170
    Abstract: A band for surgical wound suture includes a first band having a first left band and a first right band and a second band located above the first band and having a second left band and a second right band, in which the first left band is connected to the second right band, and the second right band is connected to the first left band. The band for surgical wound suture provides advantages that an incision may be sutured by a simple operation of pulling the left and right bands to the left and right and attaching them, a feeling of heterogeneity after a suturing procedure may be minimized with a suturing device having a small volume and having almost no hard parts, and furthermore, the incision may be joined and firmly fixed by a wide and sturdy joint joined to both sides of the incision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Inventor: Sungguen Jun
  • Patent number: 12011171
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are various exemplary systems, devices, and methods for inhibiting premature implant deployment. The delivery member can include a body including a lumen extending therethrough, the body including a compressed distal portion. The delivery member can include a pull wire extending through the lumen. The pull wire can include a pull wire portion that extends radially to abut a sidewall of the body to provide frictional resistance against the body. The pull wire can be positioned to secure the implantable medical device to the delivery member, and the pull wire portion can be effective to inhibit premature detachment of the implant by inhibiting proximal translation of the pull wire due to the frictional resistance provided by the pull wire portion against the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Lacey Gorochow, Ruijiao Xu, Daniel Solaun, David Blumenstyk
  • Patent number: 12011172
    Abstract: An occlusion catheter system for full or partial occlusion of a vessel includes an occlusion balloon. The balloon is positioned in a folded, uninflated configuration around a central shaft, a proximal shaft, and a distal shaft of the occlusion catheter system, having an outer diameter less than seven French. The balloon is constructed of a semi-compliant or non-compliant material and is sized to have a blown diameter between approximately ten percent to sixty percent greater than the inner diameter of the vessel, whereby an outer surface of the balloon comes into full diametric contact with an inner surface of the vessel upon partial inflation of the balloon and folds are formed in the outer surface of the balloon. The folds define flow channels with inner surfaces of the vessel or with portions of the outer surface of the balloon that allow partial blood flow past the balloon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: PRYTIME MEDICAL DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Curtis J. Franklin, Jeremy Reynolds, Eric Pointer, Matthew Garland, Todd J. Krummenacher
  • Patent number: 12011173
    Abstract: A dual balloon catheter having two independently inflatable balloons that provides complete or intermittent synchronous occlusion of blood vessels (such as the contralateral iliac veins, for example) via the balloons, which can be used for the purpose of decreasing the pressure in the inferior vena cava, which results in decongestion of the kidneys, liver/splanchnic compartment, lymphatic system, and the heart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Kar Health, LLC
    Inventors: Wassef Karrowni, Mirna Karouni
  • Patent number: 12011174
    Abstract: An occlusion device with particular utility in occlusion of left atrial appendages is described. The occlusion device utilizes an inflatable balloon comprising a proximal portion to inflate with an inflation fluid delivered by an outer catheter body and conform to a shape of the left atrial appendage and a distal portion to fill with an adhesive delivered by an inner catheter body. The distal portion of the inflatable balloon sticks to the tissue wall of the left atrial appendage. The outer catheter body is configured to position the inner catheter body inside the outer catheter body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Terumo Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Gray, Anup Dasnurkar, Maricela Walker, Michael Martel, Hiroki Kamiuchi
  • Patent number: 12011175
    Abstract: A vaso-occlusive device is constructed out of dissimilar metallic materials that are in contact or otherwise in close proximity with one another, thereby causing the device to undergo galvanic corrosion when exposed to an electrolytic medium, such as blood or other body fluid, wherein one of the dissimilar metallic materials is zirconium or zirconium alloy to create a corrosive product including zirconia having a relatively high hardness, a relatively high fracture toughness, and a relatively high stability when the device is implanted in a vasculature site, such as an aneurysm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignees: Stryker Corporation, Stryker European Holdings I, LLC
    Inventor: Hancun Chen
  • Patent number: 12011177
    Abstract: A clip pushing structure for a clip applier, which is used to install and push clips. The clip pushing structure comprises: a nail mounting groove piece which has a receiving slot, wherein the clips are placed in the receiving slot of the nail mounting groove piece in a continuous abutting manner; a screw-in ladder member which has a nail-pushing part and a plurality of pushed parts, a pitch being formed between every two pushed parts; a nail pushing member which has a body, a front pushing part that may push the foremost clip, and a rear pushing part that may push each pushed part of the screw-in ladder member; and a clamping jaw which penetrates a clamping jaw assembly, the clamping jaw having two arms which each have a convex part and abut against a left side wall and a right side wall of the clamping jaw assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: MEDSCOPE BIOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hong-Yang Fan, Shih-Hao Huang
  • Patent number: 12011178
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to devices, systems and methods adapted for implementing intermittent displacement of blood to mitigate peripheral nerve neuropathy such as that induced by chemotherapeutic agents (i.e., chemotherapy-induced neuropathy (CIN)) that are administered to a patient. Such devices, systems and methods advantageously provide for precise, uniform and controlled blood flow occluding (and optionally blood displacing) compression along irregular surfaces of an appendage of a patient. Such precise, uniform and controlled blood occluding compression is imparted upon the epidermal and dermis skin layers within the aforementioned areas of a patient's extremities to decrease the time that free nerve endings located in the epidermal and encapsulated nerve endings located in the dermis skin layers are exposed to nerve damaging chemotherapy chemicals, thereby substantially decreasing CIN caused by prolonged exposure to such chemicals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Inventor: Steve Eugene Everett
  • Patent number: 12011179
    Abstract: Systems, methods, kits, and devices for transferring kinematic alignment references from the distal aspect of a femur to the proximal aspect of an adjacent tibia. An exemplary assembly includes a distally referencing linking drill guide assembly comprising: a linking drill guide comprising: a femoral portion, the femoral portion configured to engage a first femoral engagement member, a tibial portion, the tibial portion configured to engage a first tibial engagement member, and a body connecting the femoral portion to the tibial portion, and a femoral referencing instrument, the femoral referencing instrument having a first complimentary femoral engagement member, wherein the assembly has an engaged configuration when the first femoral engagement member engages the first complimentary femoral engagement member, and wherein the assembly has a disengaged configuration when the first femoral engagement member does not engage the first complementary femoral engagement member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: MicroPort Orthopedics Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Brian R. Harris, Jr., Robert F. Simes, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12011180
    Abstract: Disclosed are tools and devices for use in repairing an intervertebral disc. The devices include an anchor configured to be secured in a vertebra adjacent the intervertebral disc and a prosthesis having an active part that is configured for placement inside the nucleus of the disc. The tools include an anchor placement tool that includes a chisel for carving the vertebra and a rotatable part that is used for engaging with and screwing the anchor into the vertebra. The tools also include a prosthesis placement tool that is configured to support and facilitate an attachment of the prosthesis to the anchor and to deploy the active part of the prosthesis in the nucleus of the disc. According to one embodiment the prosthesis placement tool is equipped with electronics for the purpose of verifying a corrected attachment of the prosthesis to the anchor. According to other embodiments, the electronics are included in a separate checker tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Neos Surgery, S.L.
    Inventors: Marc Serrahima Tornel, Salvador Llas Vargas, Ana Rodríguez Alonso, Lluís Chico Roca
  • Patent number: 12011181
    Abstract: Endoscopic image analysis, endoscopic procedure analysis, and/or component control systems, methods and techniques are disclosed that can analyze images of an endoscopic system and/or affect an endoscopic system to enhance operation, user and patient experience, and usability of image data and other case data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Kunnskap Medical, LLC
    Inventor: Michael C. Holmstrom
  • Patent number: 12011182
    Abstract: Medical devices and related methods for transforming bone, other tissue, or other material are disclosed herein. According to an aspect, a cutting device includes a static casing that defines a sheathing slot and an opening. The sheathing slot extends to the opening and has a first height at an end of the opening. Further, the bone cutting device includes a horn including a first end and a second end. The first end is configured to operatively connect to a source of movement. Further, the second end includes a cutting component having a second height. The first height is greater than the second height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Innovations 4 Surgery, LLC
    Inventors: Robert K. Lark, Edward C. Skolnick, Antoine R. Kaeslin
  • Patent number: 12011183
    Abstract: Drill guides are disclosed herein that include a tapered projection that hooks under a bone to position the drill guide relative to the bone. The drill guide is used to drill a hole that receives a suture anchor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Arthrex, Inc.
    Inventors: Jorge Acevedo, Peter Mangone, Zachary Day, James McWilliam
  • Patent number: 12011184
    Abstract: Balloon catheters, sleeves, cages, and endoluminal prostheses are provided with stress-applying and spacing features coupled to expandable surfaces thereof. The stress-applying features may have blunt and/or rounded contact regions which contact tissue or calcified regions in the vasculature. The contact regions dent or fracture occlusive material on the wall of a vascular lumen and/or patient valve leaflets when expanded. The spacing features permit blood, drug, and contrast perfusion past structures expanded in the vasculature, particularly balloon catheters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Elixir Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Motasim Sirhan, Benjamyn Serna, Bozena Treadwell, John Yan
  • Patent number: 12011185
    Abstract: The present invention provides a catheter for treating an occlusion in a body lumen. The catheter includes an elongated tube, a first electrode pair and a second electrode pair each configured to generate shock waves. The catheter also includes a flexible polymer enclosure that is fillable with conductive fluid and wrapped circumferentially around at least a portion of the elongated tube such that it surrounds the first and second electrode pairs. The first and second electrode pairs can be arranged relative to one another to promote interference between shock waves generated at the electrode pairs when voltage is delivered across the electrodes of each pair. Electrode pairs can be longitudinally adjacent (spaced a relatively small longitudinal distance apart), longitudinally aligned (at the same longitudinal location), circumferentially offset (offset about the circumference of the catheter), circumferentially aligned (at the same circumferential location), or any combination of any of the above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: SHOCKWAVE MEDICAL, INC.
    Inventor: Khanh Vo
  • Patent number: 12011186
    Abstract: The designs and methods disclosed herein are for a clot retrieval catheter with a large bore shaft and a distal braid-supported tip that is expandable to a diameter larger than the outer sheath through which it is delivered. The distal mouth of the tip can be beveled at an angle inclined from the longitudinal axis of the shaft. The braided tip can be braced with a reinforcing ring which can be welded or overmolded to the distal end of the braid and prevents the tip from collapsing under aspiration forces. The reinforcing ring can have relief features positioned to allow the oblique orientation of the ring to maintain a circular inner channel when the tip is compressed and delivered through a guide sheath and expanded at a target site. The distal tip can be expanded to a profile that is either symmetric or asymmetric with the catheter shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: NEURAVI LIMITED
    Inventor: Petrica Stefanov
  • Patent number: 12011187
    Abstract: A sheath for guiding and controlling a length of a catheter, the sheath comprising a body defining a longitudinal axis. The body can include a proximal portion and a distal portion, a bore extending along the longitudinal axis between and through the proximal portion and the distal portion, and a looped portion located between the proximal portion and the distal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Olympus America Inc.
    Inventor: Peter J. Crowley
  • Patent number: 12011188
    Abstract: Provided herein is a mechanism to controllably move a wire within a flexible tubular member, the wire including opposed wire ends extending outwardly of a proximal end of the flexible tubular member, comprising a drive mechanism and a coupling located between the drive mechanism and the wire end, wherein movement of the coupling in the direction of the wire end results in opposed motion of the wire end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignees: BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, ENDOQUEST ROBOTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel H. Kim, Dong Suk Shin, Taeho Jang, Yongman Park, Jeihan Lee, Hongmin Kim, Kihoon Nam, Seokyung Han