With Means For Cutting, Scarifying, Or Vibrating (e.g., Ultrasonic, Etc.) Tissue Patents (Class 604/22)
  • Patent number: 11896485
    Abstract: A delivery system and method for delivering a prosthetic heart valve to the aortic valve annulus via a transaortic approach. The system includes a balloon catheter for delivering a balloon-expandable prosthetic heart valve through an introducer from an approach from outside the patient, through a minimally-invasive opening in the chest cavity through an incision in the aorta, and into the aorta and aortic annulus. The balloon catheter includes a flexible, tapered tip just distal of the balloon to facilitate positioning of the prosthetic heart valve in the proper orientation within the aortic annulus. The prosthetic heart valve may be installed over the existing calcified leaflets, and a pre-dilation valvuloplasty procedure may also be utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark M. Dehdashtian, Teodoro S. Jimenez
  • Patent number: 11877768
    Abstract: Provided is a medical device capable of easily changing a position of the device inside a biological lumen and effectively removing a cut object. The medical device for removing the object in the biological lumen has a drive shaft, a cutting portion, a first housing that accommodates the drive shaft to be rotatable, a second housing that is rotatable with respect to the first housing, and a support portion that supports the first housing and the second housing. The second housing and the support portion relatively move along an axis to restrict relative rotation of the first housing and the second housing. The support portion supports the second housing to be rotatable around the axis, and restricts a relative movement and a relative inclination of the second housing and the support portion in a direction intersecting with the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mizuho Shiraishi, Yuichi Tada, Akihiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11871952
    Abstract: Systems and methods discussed herein relate to surgical systems including tissue resecting devices where the handset has a disposable portion detachably coupled to a reusable portion. The reusable portion may be a housing where a motor and electronics are stored that may be used to drive a shaft inserted into the disposable portion. The shaft may be coupled to a fluid pathway through the disposable portion that is fluidly isolated from the reusable section. After use, the disposable section is detached from the reusable section and disposed, and the reusable section may be cleaned and sterilized, or may be cleaned only.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Ashlie M. Brown, Tejas S. Inamdar, Bradley R. Heil, Subhrangshu Datta, Jeremy A. Van Hill, Sylvain B. Jamais, Martin J. Dinnage, Derek W. Henderson
  • Patent number: 11849946
    Abstract: A surgical stapler. The surgical stapler includes a drive system, an electric motor, a battery and a control system. The drive system includes an actuation member. The electric motor is mechanically coupled to the drive system. The battery is electrically couplable to the electric motor. The control system includes an H-bridge circuit electrically couplable to the electric motor. The control system is configured to control the electric motor based on a sensed parameter associated with the electric motor, a position of the actuation member and a velocity of the actuation member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: David C. Yates, Frederick E. Shelton, IV
  • Patent number: 11844544
    Abstract: A device for use with a debridement system is disclosed. The device includes an outer tubular shaft having an inner surface defining a lumen along an axis, the inner surface having an inner surface diameter. An inner tubular shaft is disposed within the lumen and rotatable within the outer tubular shaft. The inner tubular shaft includes an outer surface having an outer surface diameter less than the inner surface diameter. The inner surface of the outer tubular shaft with the outer surface of the inner tubular shaft forms a channel along the axis to receive fluid from the fluid source. The rotor is disposed in the channel and includes an axially extending helicoid blade coupled to the inner tubular shaft. The blade rotates within and with respect to the outer tubular shaft and exerts an axial thrust on the fluid in the channel with respect to the outer tubular shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Medtronic PS Medical, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Kern
  • Patent number: 11839848
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of implanting a blood clot removal device in a patient's body, by cutting the skin of the patient's body, dissecting an area of the patient's vascular system, placing the blot clot removal device at the dissected area, and connecting a blood flow passageway of the blood clot removal device to the patient's vascular system to allow circulation of the patient's blood through the blood flow passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Inventor: Peter Forsell
  • Patent number: 11839713
    Abstract: A method and apparatus that reduces the time and trauma associated with tissue removal procedures such as Ultrasound Assisted Liposuction, which emulsifies and then extracts unwanted adipose from a patient's target zone. Emulsification and suction are optimized and performed in a synchronous manner by a single apparatus to improve the outcome and minimize, if not eliminate, the limitations, risks and complications caused by current state of the art techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: REVELA MEDICAL, INC.
    Inventor: Alfonso Aljure
  • Patent number: 11807900
    Abstract: Some embodiments presented in this disclosure concern an Automated Tissue Dissection (ATD) System. An ATD system is a one stop, and potentially low-cost, system to perform dissections on a substrate from pathologist digital mark or pen mark on the substrate using non-contact and/or mechanical method to extract a Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded (FFPE) tissue sample with: (a) only the ROI or ROIs as area to be saved; and (b) remove or decompose nucleic acid content in the region of no interest (RONI) and collect all tissue sample from a standard microscope substrate into a specific container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Genomic Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Hubert Yeung, Amy Lee Hsieh Yuan, Chun Wai Lee, Gabriel Jesus Samuel Perlas Moraleda, Jonathan M. Cassel
  • Patent number: 11806071
    Abstract: A method of treating a soft palate in a patient may involve advancing a tissue treatment portion of a soft palate treatment device through the patient's mouth, contacting a treatment surface of the tissue treatment portion with mucosal tissue of the soft palate, and delivering energy from the tissue treatment portion through the mucosal tissue to a target tissue in the soft palate beneath to the mucosal tissue, to change at least one property of the target tissue. The method may further involve cooling the mucosal tissue with a cooling member on the treatment surface of the tissue treatment portion and removing the tissue treatment portion from the mouth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Aerin Medical Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Frazier, Scott J. Wolf, Fred Dinger, Charlton Yih
  • Patent number: 11806279
    Abstract: An ocular surgical apparatus is provided, including a processor configured to receive ocular surgical data and a graphical user interface configured to display the ocular surgical data to a user. The processor configured to filter the ocular surgical data and the graphical user interface configured to display filtered ocular surgical data. The processor is configured to receive a number of ocular surgical data samples, discard selected ocular surgical data samples thereby yielding a number of emphasized samples, and perform an operation on the number of emphasized samples to produce filtered ocular surgical data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.
    Inventors: Abraham Hajishah, Mitchell W. Mallough, Joseph E. Pedroza
  • Patent number: 11806483
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of spring cannulae, including one or more holes in the sidewall of the cannula. Some disclosed cannulae include a wire, helically wound to form coils, and at least one hole in the cannula that interrupts one or more of the coils. Some embodiments further include a fused region of the coils through which the hole passes. Some embodiments include a ring attached to ends of the interrupted coils, where the hole is surrounded by the ring. Some embodiments include a sheath that is attached to a radial surface of the interrupted coils, where the hole passes radially though the sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manouchehr A. Miraki, Bryan A. Janish, Raymond J. McManus, Brent K. Hoffman
  • Patent number: 11751898
    Abstract: A medical device and can remove an object inside a biological lumen while allowing a positional change of the device inside the biological lumen. The medical device includes a drive shaft, an outer tube accommodating the drive shaft, a cutting portion fixed to a distal portion of the drive shaft, and a hub unit housing proximal portions of the drive shaft and the outer tube. The hub unit has an operation unit fixed to the outer surface of the outer tube to rotate the outer tube, a first support portion rotatably supporting the operation unit, a first housing having an aspiration port for discharging fluid to outside, and causing communication of an aspiration lumen of the outer tube with the aspiration port, and a first seal between the first housing and the outer tube. The first support portion and the first seal are disposed in parallel along an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taiga Nakano, Junichi Kobayashi, Tomonori Hatta, Kosuke Nishio
  • Patent number: 11740138
    Abstract: A first tubular body having a first longitudinal axis extending centrally through the tubular body includes at least one delivery port extending through a wall of the first tubular body. A second tubular body having a second longitudinal axis extends through the second tubular body, the first and second longitudinal axes being displaced from each other such that an asymmetrical longitudinally extending gap is formed between an outer surface of the second tubular body and an interior surface of the first tubular body. A temperature sensor forming a thermocouple extending longitudinally within the gap between the first tubular body and the second tubular body. An inner core is positioned within the second tubular body. The inner core includes least one ultrasound element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: EKOS CORPORATION
    Inventors: William Russell Kanz, Brent Twain Nistal, Eric Charles Whittaker, Raymond M. Wolniewicz, III, Randall James Beyreis, Michael Kuehn, Laura Elyn Ortega, Garrett Prahl, Travis Richard White
  • Patent number: 11699519
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for maintaining and controlling surgical tools are disclosed. For each surgical tool, a surgeon can give verbal commands which can result in feedback provided by a synthesized voice or the execution of an action as instructed by the verbal command. The tools are monitored during use to ensure the tools remain within their operating parameters. The system alerts the surgeon should the tools approach their operational limitations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: IX Innovation LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Roh, Justin Esterberg, John Cronin, Seth Cronin, Michael John Baker
  • Patent number: 11697008
    Abstract: A microneedle assembly and a method of fabrication the assembly are provided. The microneedle assembly includes an array of microneedles attached to a base. Each of the microneedles comprise a tip, a needle shaft and a plurality of cantilevered barbs protruding outwardly from the needle shaft, where a plurality of the microneedles include two or more of the cantilevered barbs arranged in a series of concentric rings along the needle shaft of each of the plurality of microneedles. The microneedle assembly may be fabricated using a 3D printing technique, where one or more cantilevered layers are formed by exposing a photocurable liquid resin including monomer material to a light source to create initially horizontal, cantilevered barbs having a crosslinking gradient, and rinsing to remove an amount of un-crosslinked monomers from the cantilevered layers to induce curvature in the cantilevered barbs extending towards a direction of the lower crosslinking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignees: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    Inventors: Howon Lee, Giuseppe Barillaro, Riddish Morde, Emanuele Vignali
  • Patent number: 11690757
    Abstract: A work tip for a surgical hand piece has a solid blade connected to a source of ultrasonic energy in the hand piece. The knife has grooves in its surfaces. The work tip further including an irrigation and aspiration tubes extending along opposite surfaces of the blade and being at least partially within the grooves. The blade has a collar adjacent its distal end and at least the aspiration tube extends ends at a distance from the collar. The edges of the collar are made sharp enough to emulsify cataract tissue when vibrated at ultrasonic frequencies so that occlusion of the aspiration tube is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SURGICAL DESIGN CORPORATION
    Inventor: William Banko
  • Patent number: 11690957
    Abstract: A method for needle-free injection and a needle-free injector device are provided. The method includes automatically injecting an injectable into a surface in contact with the needle-free injector in response to a skin compression parameter of an end of the needle-free injector. A needle-free injector device (102) includes predefined structures formed on it to inject an injectable through a non-porous material. The predefined structures engage an airlock mechanism such that an airlock in the non-porous material and operably coupled to the airlock mechanism can only be opened and closed to enable needle-free injection through the non-porous material without disrupting an integrity of the non-porous material by the needle-free injector device. Other functions, embodiments and methods for using and programming the needle-free injector device are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: MIRACLE MANAGEMENT PTE LTD
    Inventors: Ping Derg Chuang, David Samuel Leon Chuang
  • Patent number: 11690998
    Abstract: Methods for treating a bacterial infections, including drug-resistant bacterial infections, of a patient are described. The methods may include applying a non-thermal plasma and a liquid simultaneously to infected tissue of the patient, the liquid comprising at least one antibiotic and/or antiseptic and a penetration enhancing agent; wherein the non-thermal plasma has a frequency between 200 kHz and 600 kHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: THERADEP TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Liam O'Neill
  • Patent number: 11684512
    Abstract: A vitrector for performing a vitrectomy comprises a tubular shaft portion which is attached to a distal end of a vitrector hand piece. The shaft portion is provided with a sharply pointed needle tip portion for piercing the pars plana and sclera of the eye, and a pneumatically driven guillotine cutter is incorporated within the shaft portion of the vitrector at a location immediately adjacent to the sharply pointed needle tip portion. A source of pneumatic air is operatively connected to the proximal end of the vitrector hand piece and is pneumatically connected to the guillotine cutter so as to drive the same. In addition, an aspiration line is also operatively connected to the proximal end of the vitrector hand piece and is also fluidically connected to the region immediately adjacent to the pneumatically driven guillotine cutter so as to remove the floater particles, severed from the vitreous cavity by means of the pneumatically driven guillotine cutter, by means of aspiration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Vista Ophthalmics, LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey Whitsett
  • Patent number: 11678897
    Abstract: A surgical method treats infections on a lead positioned at least partially within a patient's body. The surgical method includes uncoupling the lead from a pulse generator. The lead is then coupled to an ultrasound wave generator. Ultrasound waves are propagated from the ultrasound wave generator through the lead. Systems are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC, INC.
    Inventors: Alan Cheng, Jian Cao, Zhongping Yang
  • Patent number: 11679029
    Abstract: A vitrectomy apparatus is provided, including a disposable cutter that incorporates a linear voice coil motor to generate consistent and rapid guillotine action without the use of a rotary motor or traditional linear motor. The apparatus includes voice coil actuator to provide for a forward and backward reciprocating motion cutting blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott G. Strayer, Lauren M. Hickey
  • Patent number: 11672524
    Abstract: Devices and methods for cutting a tether are described herein. Devices described herein generally comprise a proximal handle, a catheter, and an inner shaft and a cutting blade disposed within the lumen of the catheter, where the cutting blade is movably disposed over the inner shaft. The proximal handle comprises an actuation mechanism to control the movement of the components of the device. Methods described herein generally comprise advancing a tether-cutting device over a tether, loading the tether through the catheter and inner shaft, applying tension to the tether, and rotating and distally translating a cutting blade in order to cut the tether.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Ancora Heart, Inc.
    Inventors: Russel Sampson, David Scott Baron, Rob Kotmel
  • Patent number: 11672557
    Abstract: A vibrating hand held surgical instrument for loosening tissue of a patient for liposuction or body contouring procedures. The instrument includes a motor connected to a vibration actuator having an eccentric rotating mass and an end effector for engaging tissue operatively connected to the vibration actuator, wherein the motor rotates the eccentric mass to cause the end effector to vibrate to loosen tissue. A flexible shaft having first end and second ends dampen the vibration to the motor and to the operator handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: LIPOCOSM, LLC
    Inventors: Roger K. Khouri, Khalil R. Khouri
  • Patent number: 11666378
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to systems and methods for therapeutically modulating nerves in or associated with a nasal region of a patient for the treatment of a rhinosinusitis condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Neurent Medical Limited
    Inventors: David Townley, Brian Shields
  • Patent number: 11660162
    Abstract: An arthroscopic shaver cleaning device and method of cleaning an arthroscopic shaver blade/burr are disclosed. The arthroscopic shaver cleaning device includes a sleeve portion configured to interface with a proximal portion of a blade/burr of an arthroscopic shaver. The arthroscopic shaver cleaning device further includes a fluid connection portion having a fluid passageway configured to direct fluid toward the proximal portion of the blade/burr in order to dislodge debris entrapped in shaver lumen of the blade/burr.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Mark 2 Medical, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Ritter, Mark Dale
  • Patent number: 11638624
    Abstract: A method for performing an endovascular procedure using ultrasonic energy includes providing a first sheath having a proximal end portion and a distal end portion, and having a first window in the distal end portion; positioning a wave guide in the first sheath for delivering the ultrasonic energy through the first window for performing the endovascular procedure; and selectively covering the first window with a cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: C.R. Bard, Inc.
    Inventor: Jessica Lynn Roll Hoye
  • Patent number: 11633176
    Abstract: Embodiments include devices, methods, and systems for positioning devices. An exemplary method comprises: moving a distal end of a tube into a body, the tube including a lumen and a shaft in the lumen, the shaft having a transducer; sending a first signal to the transducer; passing, with the transducer, in response to the first signal, a wave energy into the body; receiving, with the transducer, a reflected portion of the wave energy; generating, with the transducer, a second signal in response to the reflected portion of the wave energy; determining, with a processor, an indicia of the body in response to the second signal; and identifying, with the indicia, a targeted issue in the body; positioning the distal end of the tube at the targeted tissue in response to the indicia; and removing a portion of the targeted tissue with the distal end of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed Inc.
    Inventors: Hong Cao, Dongming Hou
  • Patent number: 11622786
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a medical device. The medical device includes an outer tubular member and an inner tubular member. The outer tubular member has a distal end, an open window disposed at the distal end, and one or more dimples. The inner tubular member has a distal tip and one or more axial grooves. The inner tubular member is configured to be received within the outer tubular member. The one or more axial grooves and the one or more dimples are configured to align the distal tip of the inner tubular member with the open window of the outer tubular member. The open window of the outer tubular member and the distal tip of the inner tubular member are configured to cut tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: GYRUS ACMI, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Edwards, Jay Casey, Joel Willhite, Ahmad Alsaffar
  • Patent number: 11611307
    Abstract: A short-circuit fault-tolerant control method based on deadbeat current tracking for a five-phase permanent magnet motor with a sinusoidal back-electromotive force or a trapezoidal back-electromotive force (EMF) is provided. By fully utilizing a third harmonic space of a five-phase permanent magnet motor in a fault state, the method proposes a fault-tolerant control strategy for a five-phase permanent magnet motor with a sinusoidal back-EMF or a trapezoidal back-EMF in case of a single-phase short-circuit fault. The method enables the five-phase permanent magnet motor to make full use of the third harmonic space during fault-tolerant operation, thereby improving the torque output of the motor in a fault state and improving the fault-tolerant operation efficiency of the motor. The method achieves desirable fault-tolerant performance and dynamic response of the motor, and expands the speed range of the motor during fault-tolerant operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Qian Chen, Yuhang Xia, Licheng Gu, Wenxiang Zhao, Guohai Liu
  • Patent number: 11602258
    Abstract: An exemplary system includes a memory storing instructions and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to execute the instructions to receive, from a sensor of a surgical instrument, environmental condition information associated with the surgical instrument and detected by the sensor while the surgical instrument is disconnected from an external power source, the surgical instrument including circuitry configured to be powered and operate only while the surgical instrument is connected to the external power source, determine, based on the environmental condition information, an operational condition of the surgical instrument, and provide a notification indicating the determined operational condition of the surgical instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Quentin F. Polosky, Diana C. W. Friedman, Mathew D. Clopp, Yves Lacroix, John A Barton, Dean A. Mansour
  • Patent number: 11589854
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for treating heart failure by normalizing elevated blood pressure in the left and right atria of a heart of a mammal. The present disclosure includes methods for creating and maintaining an opening in the atrial septum. Tools for making an opening and enlarging the opening are also disclosed. Use of the techniques and tools described herein prolongs the patency of an intra-atrial pressure relief opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Corvia Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: David S. Celermajer, Edward I. McNamara, Michael W. Sutherland, Hiroatsu Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11583261
    Abstract: A biopsy device includes a cylindrical hollow stylet having a proximal end, a distal end, and a uniform wall thickness. The proximal end and the distal end are disposed on the longitudinal axis. A longitudinal recess forms a sample chamber and is positioned adjacent the distal end of the cylindrical hollow stylet. A longitudinal insert has a longitudinal length, a distal terminal end, and an elongate channel. The longitudinal insert is positioned within the cylindrical hollow stylet with the distal terminal end proximal to the longitudinal recess. The longitudinal insert is immovably connected to the cylindrical hollow stylet. The elongate channel is configured to maintain a fluid passageway through the cylindrical hollow stylet from the proximal end to the longitudinal recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: C. R. Bard, Inc.
    Inventors: Tyson D. Anderson, Daniel O. Almazan, Dnyanesh A. Talpade
  • Patent number: 11576800
    Abstract: A surgical weight loss procedure to reduce stomach volume is provided. The procedure involves gathering together a quantity of stomach tissue and securing this tissue together in a gathered position, which can reduce the volume of the stomach. This reduced stomach volume allows a patient to feel satiated with a much smaller amount of food, leading to weight loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Inventor: Nassar Ismail
  • Patent number: 11564705
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a medical device. The medical device includes two coaxially aligned solenoids and a cannulated armature configured to be received within the two coaxially aligned solenoids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Gyras ACMI, Inc.
    Inventors: David Church, Ahmad Alsaffar, Daniel Goldberg, Joel Willhite, Kevin Edwards
  • Patent number: 11535510
    Abstract: A sub-centimeter structure includes a first structural component, a second structural component arranged proximate the first structural component, and a joint connecting the first and second structural components. The joint includes a material that has a first phase that is substantially rigid to hold the first and second structural components in a substantially rigid configuration while the material is in the first phase. The material of the joint has a second phase such that the joint is at least partially fluid to allow the first and second structural components to move relative to each other while the material is in the second phase. The joint interacts with the first and second structural components while the material is in the second phase to cause the first and second structural components to move relative to each other. And, the first and second structural components include a polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: David H. Gracias, Anum Azam
  • Patent number: 11504089
    Abstract: An adaptor for adjusting electrical signals propagated along an electrically-conductive path between a drive unit and a catheter of an intravascular ultrasound imaging system includes a catheter connector disposed along a first end of a housing and configured to receive the catheter. A drive-unit connector is disposed along a second end of the housing and is configured to couple the adaptor to the drive unit. A catheter-conductor interface electrically-couples to a transducer conductor of the catheter. A drive-unit-conductor interface electrically-couples to an electrical conductor of the drive unit. An adaptor conductor electrically-couples the catheter-conductor interface to the drive-unit-conductor interface. A tuning element is electrically-coupled to the adaptor conductor and is configured to adjust electrical signals propagating along the adaptor conductor based, at least in part, on an operational frequency of a transducer disposed in the catheter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Thornton, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11504153
    Abstract: An improved plaque extractor for shaving, scooping, cutting, and emulsifying accumulated plaque from blood vessels into fine particles, and removing the particles from blood vessel walls without cutting or permanently stretching the walls, and without substantially blocking the blood flow through the vessel during plaque removal operation. The plaque extractor includes an extractor guide and an internal auger, in which both are rotating and moving axially inside the vessel to engage the occlusive material. The operation of the device does not substantially disrupt blood pressure within the blood vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: MOST CARDIO, LLC
    Inventors: Victor Dardzinski, Pavel Menn
  • Patent number: 11490923
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a device for disrupting material in a body vessel and a method for making such a device. The device includes a plurality of arms disposed circumferentially about an axis. Each arm includes two blades; one sharper, and one blunter. The sharper blades are all oriented in the same direction, clockwise or counterclockwise, such that when the device is rotated in a first direction, the sharper blades engage the material, and in the other, the duller blades engage the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: COOK MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Keith Milner, Joshua Krieger
  • Patent number: 11478296
    Abstract: A medical device system for the delivery of energy to a region of a patient's anatomy is provided. An introducer tube defines a lumen therein and bears a first electrode. A second electrode is movable within the lumen between a retracted position and an extended position. In the retracted position, the second electrode is substantially disposed within the lumen. In the extended position, the second electrode extends at least partially beyond the distal end of the introducer tube. In one form, the introducer tube is configured to substantially hold the second electrode within the lumen in a predetermined orientation in the extended position, and the introducer tube prevents the second electrode from substantially rotating within the lumen of the introducer tube during movement into the extended position. In one form, the introducer tube is more flexible in a first plane than in a second plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Gyrus ACMI, Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon J. Shuman, Hugo Xavier Gonzalez, David H. Dillard
  • Patent number: 11471325
    Abstract: An apparatus for use in tissue removal from a body organ is presented. The apparatus comprises a hand-held probe device, a rotating motor device and a connection assembly configured for removably interconnecting between the hand-held probe device and the rotating motor device. The hand-held probe device is disposable and comprises a housing having proximal and distal ends, a rotatable cutting tool extending distally from the distal end of the housing and being configured for cutting and removing tissue during rotation, and a transmission assembly passing inside the housing between the proximal and distal ends and being configured for transmitting rotational power to the rotatable cutting tool. The connection assembly is configured for engaging between the rotating motor device and the transmission assembly to thereby controllably rotate the cutting tool and remove tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignees: SANOCULIS LTD., TEL HASHOMER MEDICAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AND Services Ltd.
    Inventors: Gilad Lavi, Yoseph Glovinsky, Vadim Shmukler, Nir Israeli
  • Patent number: 11464529
    Abstract: An ultrasonic catheter assembly includes a sheath having a sheath lumen. A core wire is at least partially disposed within the sheath lumen. The core wire has a proximal portion and a distal portion. The proximal portion of the core wire is configured to be coupled to an ultrasound-producing mechanism. A working length of the distal portion of the core wire extends distally from the sheath. The working length is configured for longitudinal displacement, transverse displacement, or a combination of longitudinal and transverse displacement, in accordance with a plurality of output modes for vibrational energy supplied to the core wire proximal portion by the ultrasound-producing mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: C.R. BARD, INC.
    Inventors: Aseem Singh, Peng Zheng, Chad Van Liere
  • Patent number: 11464528
    Abstract: A system for removing occlusive clot from a blood vessel comprises a catheter and an apparatus for generating a pulsatile vacuum force to pulse the pressure gradient at a distal end of the catheter. The pulse generator may be integral with or separate from the vacuum pump. The pulse generator may be applied to a flexible tubing between the vacuum pump and the proximal end of the catheter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: NEURAVI LIMITED
    Inventors: Eamon Brady, David Vale, Michael Gilvarry, Brendan Casey, Marto Hoary, Adnan Siddiqui
  • Patent number: 11464941
    Abstract: A direct stream hydrodynamic catheter system is provided for the removal of thrombus, lesions and the like including provisions for the infusion of drugs, lysing fluids and the like into a blood vessel. Physician controlled powered direct fluid jet streams emanate from a fluid jet emanatory in the form of robust radially directed fluid jet streams to impinge upon and ablate difficult and strong thrombus and lesions within a blood vessel. Effluent aspiration is controlled by an exhaust regulator in the form of a roller pump, but effluent removal can be assistingly influenced by the fluid pressure associated with the radially directed fluid jet streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Limited
    Inventors: Michael J. Bonnette, Eric J. Thor, Debra M. Kozak, Douglas J. Ball, Stephen E. Weisel, David B. Morris, Richard R. Prather
  • Patent number: 11458077
    Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising an aqueous phase and an oily phase which are visually separate and superimposed, 1,3-propanediol and a ketone compound of formula (I): wherein R1 is a C2-C4 alkyl radical; R2 is H or a C1-C4 hydrocarbon-based radical; R3 is a C1-C4 hydrocarbon-based radical; and C—X is C?O. The invention can be used for the cosmetic treatment of keratin materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: L'OREAL
    Inventors: Sofiane Ouattara, Véronique Chevalier
  • Patent number: 11452534
    Abstract: A debris removal system includes an elongated shaft extending from a proximal end to a distal end and including a shaft lumen, the shaft being configured to be inserted through a bodily lumen to a target surgical site, a vibration motor coupled to the elongated shaft via a vibration collar, the vibration motor including a rotatable shaft and at least one weight coupled to the rotatable shaft, the weight being asymmetrically shaped about a central axis of the shaft such that rotation of the shaft creates vibrational energy along the length of the elongated shaft to dislodge debris within the target surgical site, and a vacuum pump connected to the elongated shaft and configured to vacuum dislodged debris from the target surgical site through the shaft lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Peter J. Pereira, Martin Phelan, Vincent Lai
  • Patent number: 11446053
    Abstract: A tissue-removing catheter for removing tissue in a body lumen includes an elongate body having an axis and proximal and distal end portions spaced apart from one another along the axis. A turbine is fixed to the elongate body and is disposed at an intermediate position between the proximal and distal end portions of the elongate body. A rotatable tissue-removing element is at the distal end portion of the elongate body and is operatively coupled to the turbine such that the turbine imparts rotation of the tissue-removing element. The tissue-removing element removes the tissue from the body lumen as the tissue-removing element is rotated by the turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC VASCULAR, INC.
    Inventors: Aram Jamous, John Kelly, Colin William Meade, Micheal Moriarty, Barry O'Connell, Grainne Carroll
  • Patent number: 11439426
    Abstract: An ultrasonic surgical blade includes a body having a proximal end, a distal end, and an outer surface. The distal end is movable relative to a longitudinal axis in accordance with ultrasonic vibrations applied to the proximal end. At least a portion of the outer surface of the body comprises a lubricious coating adhered thereto. The lubricious coating has a coefficient of friction that is less than the coefficient of friction of the outer surface of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: David A. Witt, Jeffrey D. Messerly, Kevin L. Houser
  • Patent number: 11432794
    Abstract: The invention relates to a blood flow determination apparatus (5) comprising a speckle density determination unit (7) for determining a speckle density value being indicative of a level of a speckle density in an ultrasound image of an inner lumen of a blood vessel, which has been generated at an imaging location being behind an introduction location at which a fluid has been introduced into the blood vessel (20) with a known volumetric fluid flow rate. A blood flow rate determination unit (8) determines a blood flow value being indicative of a volumetric blood flow rate based on the determined speckle density value and the volumetric fluid flow rate. This allows determining the intravascular blood flow with an improved accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Christian Haase, Michael Grass
  • Patent number: 11426237
    Abstract: An electrosurgical instrument for applying to biological tissue RF electromagnetic energy and/or microwave frequency EM energy, wherein the instrument tip has a protective hull with a smoothly contoured convex undersurface facing away from a planar body, and wherein the planar body has a tapering distal edge, and wherein an underside of the planar body extends beyond the protective hull at the tapering distal edge. Also disclosed herein is an interface joint for integrating into a single cable assembly all of (i) a fluid feed, (ii) a needle movement mechanism, and (iii) an energy feed (e.g. a coaxial cable), and a torque transfer device for permitting controlled rotation of the cable assembly within the instrument channel of an endoscope. The interface joint and torque transfer device may be integrated as a single component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: CREO MEDICAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Julian Mark Ebbutt, Christopher Paul Hancock, Steven Morris, Malcolm White, Brian Saunders
  • Patent number: 11430289
    Abstract: A user interface assembly for a gaming device includes a first-side transceiver subassembly on a first side of a barrier, including a first-side antenna and a first-side transmitter circuit electronically coupled to the first-side antenna for transmitting an electromagnetic power signal through the barrier via the first-side antenna. The user interface assembly also includes a second-side transceiver subassembly on a second side of the barrier opposite the first-side transceiver subassembly, including a second-side antenna disposed opposite the first-side antenna relative to the barrier, and a second-side receiver circuit electronically coupled to the second-side antenna for receiving, via the second-side antenna, the electromagnetic power signal transmitted through the barrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Scott Jones