Instruments Patents (Class 606/1)
  • Patent number: 12257018
    Abstract: A sterile drape assembly for a surgical robot including a robotic arm with a plurality of links and a plurality of joints. The sterile drape assembly includes a surgical drape adapted to be disposed over the robotic arm and a drape belt configured to be secured to the surgical drape. The drape belt has at least one optical tracking element that moves with the drape belt as the drape belt is secured to the surgical drape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: Victor Soto, Oscar Williams, Donald W. Malackowski, Kathryn Aubrey
  • Patent number: 12262110
    Abstract: Provided is a camera head having a capacitive sensing unit disposed along the outer surface of the camera head. The capacitive sensing unit includes a plurality of capacitive sensors. The camera head includes an electronic controller operable to process an actuation of the plurality of capacitive sensors to control a camera control function and determine a medical procedure and/or the identity of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: KARL STORZ Imaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Larry Oslie, Jonathan Bormet
  • Patent number: 12256910
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a heel insert for use with a phacoemulsification foot pedal that may shift a surgeon's foot forward on the treadle of a foot pedal to reduce the force required to actuate the foot pedal. The present invention may be easily attachable and removable and may provide a less complicated and alternative foot position for surgeons preferring different treadle mechanics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.
    Inventors: Jourdan Colter, Brennen Wears, Stephen Christopher
  • Patent number: 12251308
    Abstract: Delivery systems for placing an implantable cardiac device at a native comprising a delivery catheter and an attachment assembly. The delivery catheter can include a proximal portion and a distal portion, and the attachment assembly can be at the distal portion of the delivery catheter. The attachment assembly can include arm pairs in which individual arm pairs include a first arm with connector and a second arm with a retainer. Each first arm extends along a corresponding second arm, and the first arm and/or the second arm in each arm pair moves relative to the other from a locked position to a released position. In the locked position, the retainer interfaces with the connector to maintain engagement between the implantable device and the connector. In the released position, the retainer is positioned relative to the connector such that the implantable device can disengage the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Half Moon Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew McLean, Gaurav Krishnamurthy, Hanson S. Gifford, III, Neil Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 12251124
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a body, a shaft assembly, an end effector, and a control module. The shaft assembly extends distally from the body and includes an acoustic waveguide. The waveguide is configured to acoustically couple with an ultrasonic transducer. The end effector includes an ultrasonic blade, a clamp arm, an electrode, and a sensor. The ultrasonic blade is in acoustic communication with the waveguide. The clamp arm is operable to compress tissue against the ultrasonic blade. The electrode is operable to apply radiofrequency (RF) electrosurgical energy to tissue. The sensor is operable to sense a condition of tissue contacted by the end effector. The control module is operable to control delivery of ultrasonic power and RF electrosurgical energy through the end effector based on data from the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventor: Kevin L. Houser
  • Patent number: 12254042
    Abstract: This disclosure describes an intelligent management and retrieval system for surgery videos. The system allows user to upload their surgery videos and provide description of the surgery. A trained machine learning model detects whether there are any privacy leaking segments or frames inside the user uploaded video, and the system removes such privacy information from the video. Medical devices, tissue characteristics and events are detected in the surgery video using trained object recognition, event recognition models. Such detection result, combined with user provided description of the surgery, are utilized to construct rich description of the surgery video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GENESIS MEDTECH (USA) INC.
    Inventors: Bin Zhao, Ning Li
  • Patent number: 12252658
    Abstract: Described herein are durable coatings, i.e. for medical devices, and methods of forming the coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: MicroVention, Inc.
    Inventors: Hussain Rangwala, William R. Patterson, Aaron Baldwin
  • Patent number: 12245739
    Abstract: A medical display controlling apparatus and a display controlling method capable of enhancing convenience of medical providers includes generating a three-dimensional model of an observed object based on a right-eye medical captured image and a left-eye medical captured image taken by an imaging device configured to image the observed object; and causing a display screen to display a combination of the three-dimensional model with a right-eye special light observation image and a left-eye special light observation image, or a combination of the three-dimensional model with biological information acquired from an external biological information acquiring apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Kazunori Segawa
  • Patent number: 12240105
    Abstract: A method of estimating one or more mass characteristics of a payload manipulated by a robot includes moving the payload using the robot, determining one or more accelerations of the payload while the payload is in motion, sensing, using one or more sensors of the robot, a wrench applied to the payload while the payload is in motion, and estimating the one or more mass characteristics of the payload based, at least in part, on the determined accelerations and the sensed wrench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: BOSTON DYNAMICS, INC.
    Inventors: Shervin Talebi, Neil Neville, Kevin Blankespoor
  • Patent number: 12239394
    Abstract: An actuation assembly for a medical instrument connects four bands to three motorized degrees of freedom. The actuation assembly includes a first actuator, a second actuator and a third actuator. The first actuator is coupled to a first band and a second band, the first actuator being operable to pull in one of the first and second bands and feed out the other of the first and second bands. The third actuator is coupled to a third band and a fourth band, the third actuator being operable to pull in one of the third and fourth bands and feed out the other of the third and fourth bands. Each of the first, second, third, and fourth bands pass through a second actuator, and the second actuator is operable to increase the travel path of both the first and second bands or both the third and fourth bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
    Inventor: Isabelle Heye
  • Patent number: 12232943
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods to improve both the reliability of soft tissue repair procedures and the speed at which the procedures are completed are provided. The devices and systems include one or more structured tissue augmentation constructs, which include constructs that are configured to increase a footprint across which suture applied force to tissue when the suture is tied down onto the tissue. The tissue augmentation constructs can be quickly and easily associated with the repair suture and can be useful in many different tissue repair procedures that are disclosed in the application. The present disclosure includes structured tissue augmentation blocks for tendon repair that have a flexible or semi-flexible skeleton integrated into the block. The skeleton can be bioabsorbable and can create both in-plane and out-of-plane curvature in the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Medos International Sàrl
    Inventors: Mehmet Ziya Sengun, Douglas L. Hester, Tamim Diab
  • Patent number: 12232837
    Abstract: A robotic system comprises an input device movable by an operator and a processing unit. An operator reference frame is defined relative to the operator. The processing unit is configured to present, to the operator, a first image of a first tool captured by an imaging device, receive, from the operator, a first indication that a first axis of the input device is aligned with a corresponding axis of the first tool in the first image, and in response to the first indication, determine a first alignment relationship between the imaging device and the first tool based on a second alignment relationship between the operator reference frame and the input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Ambarish G. Goswami, Paul G. Griffiths, Brandon D. Itkowitz, Tao Zhao
  • Patent number: 12232729
    Abstract: A surgical instrument includes an end effector having a first jaw, a second jaw movable relative to the first jaw to grasp tissue therebetween, an anvil, a staple cartridge comprising staples deployable into the tissue, wherein the staples are deformable by the anvil, and a sensor configured to provide a sensor signal according to a physiological parameter of the tissue. The surgical instrument further includes a control circuit coupled to the sensor, wherein the control circuit is configured to receive the sensor signal, and assess proximity of the sensor to cancerous tissue based on the sensor signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason L. Harris, Chad E. Eckert
  • Patent number: 12236630
    Abstract: Systems and methods for depth detection and virtual modeling using surgical robots during a surgical procedure are described. The robotic surgical systems include robotic arms with interchangeable surgical tools. An endoscope at the end of one of the robotic arms includes a depth sensor for detecting a distance from the camera to patient anatomy. The depth data and image data are used to generate a feature model of the patient anatomy for reference by a surgeon. The feature model is displayed to the surgeon in an augmented reality view with preoperative and intraoperative images mapped thereon for reference and guidance of a surgical procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Xing Jin, Caitlin Donhowe, Martin Habbecke, Joëlle Barral
  • Patent number: 12232824
    Abstract: Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, tracker devices, central processor devices, and optical tracking systems that facilitate improved optical tracking in surgical environments are disclosed. With this technology, background images are captured within an acquisition sequence. The background images are used to analyze the quality of current images that are captured in the acquisition sequence and to determine an angular position of optical sensor modules of optical tracker devices with respect to light sources coupled to a reference frame that can be integral with an opposing one of the tracker devices. Using multiple tracking devices facilitates a reciprocal angular position determination that is more accurate and can withstand occlusion of an optical sensor module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: Smith & Nephew, Inc., Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG, Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited
    Inventor: Gaëtan Marti
  • Patent number: 12226177
    Abstract: An instrument drive unit for use in a robotic surgical system includes a carriage configured to be coupled to a robotic arm, a hub rotationally coupled to the carriage and configured to be non-rotatably coupled to an electromechanical surgical instrument, a plurality of motors, a plurality of motor gears, a plurality of drive shafts, and a plurality of drive gears. Each motor gear is operably coupled to a corresponding motor, and each drive gear is fixed to a corresponding drive shaft. The drive shafts are rotationally supported in the hub and configured for interfacing with a corresponding driven member of the electromechanical surgical instrument. Each motor gear is configured to rotate a corresponding drive gear in response to an activation of a respective motor to actuate a function of the electromechanical surgical instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventor: Jaimeen Kapadia
  • Patent number: 12220130
    Abstract: Detachment of an implant from a delivery assembly can be electrolytic and provide an electrical current pathway through a fluid within a portion of a delivery system containing the delivery assembly. After the implant is located at a target location within a patient, a voltage potential is applied between (i) a delivery electrode electrically connected to an electrolytic detachment zone and (ii) an infusion electrode disposed outside of the patient and electrically connected to the electrolytic detachment zone via a fluid from a fluid source disposed outside of the patient. While applying the voltage potential, the fluid can be flushed from the fluid source past the detachment zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventor: Vincent Divino
  • Patent number: 12220286
    Abstract: A surgical collection having a primary surgical kit, the primary surgical kit comprising at least one first surgical implement and a primary wrap, the primary wrap comprising a first visible coding; a secondary surgical kit, the secondary surgical kit comprising at least one second surgical implement and a secondary wrap, the secondary wrap comprising a second visible coding; and an outer wrap, wherein the primary surgical kit and the secondary surgical kit are at least partially contained within the outer wrap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Medline Industries, LP
    Inventor: Kimberly M. Haines
  • Patent number: 12220124
    Abstract: A surgical stapling device (10) includes a tool assembly (16, 116) that is mounted for articulation between a non-articulated position and articulated positions. In order to minimize wobbling of the tool assembly (16, 116) in the non-articulated position of the tool assembly (16, 116), the surgical stapling device (10) includes a mounting assembly (20, 120) that includes retention structure to retain the tool assembly (16, 116) in the non-articulated position until a predetermined force is applied to the tool assembly (16, 116).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventor: Syed Sarfraz Ahamed
  • Patent number: 12215750
    Abstract: An example rotational joint assembly for a robotic medical system, the rotational joint assembly comprising at least one arm segment and a rotational joint provided at one end of the arm segment. The rotational joint is to allow the arm segment to rotate about a rotational axis. The rotational joint comprising a brake to lock rotation of the arm segment at the rotational joint and an actuator to selectively engage or disengage the brake. The actuator comprising a cam having two stable regions separated by two transition regions, the two stable regions comprising a first stable region corresponding to engagement of the brake and a second stable region corresponding to disengagement of the brake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Siemens Healthineers Endovascular Robotics, Inc
    Inventor: Eric Klem
  • Patent number: 12213733
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting physical characteristics of a multilayered tissue of a subject, such as a tear film including analyzing received detector-output indicative of optical properties of light reflected or deflected from the respective multilayered tissue, to determine spectral properties of the multilayered tissue; and determining physical characteristics of the multilayered tissue by using multiple spectral models of the of the multilayered tissue, each model being associated with spectral properties indicative of different tissue characteristics, wherein physical characteristics of the multilayered tissue are determined by hierarchal determination of a best-fit model from the multiple spectral models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: ADOM, ADVANCED OPTICAL TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Yoel Cohen, Ra'anan Gefen, Yoel Arieli, Lee Barnea Nehoshtan, Naor Deri
  • Patent number: 12208009
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of repairing a heart valve accesses an interior of a patient's beating heart minimally invasively and inserts one or more sutures into each of a plurality of heart valve leaflets with a suturing instrument. The suture ends of the sutures are divided into suture pairs, with each pair including one suture end from a suture inserted into a first valve leaflet and one suture end from a suture inserted into a second valve leaflet. One or more tourniquet tubes is advanced over the suture pairs to the leaflets to draw the sutures together to coapt the leaflets and then the sutures are secured in that position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: NeoChord, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrea Colli
  • Patent number: 12211612
    Abstract: A system comprises a plurality of sensors adapted to identify and track items, e.g., tools, instruments and consumables, placed on worksurfaces. Each worksurface may contain one or more of these items and is used in an operating room. It is first determined if all the necessary items are available for a task at hand, then as items are removed, added or consumed a tally is updated to ensure that each is accounted for. When the task ends all items have to be accounted for by having the sensors review the content of the worksurfaces and identifying any discrepancy. In one embodiment, the system learns a process, e.g., a surgical process, such that in future cases it provides alerts of missing items before and after the task, provide instructions to equipment such as robots to assist in the task performance, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: TrackiMed Ltd.
    Inventor: Itzhak Harpaz
  • Patent number: 12207817
    Abstract: A surgical system comprises a control circuit, a surgical instrument and a user interface is disclosed. The end effector assembly may comprise a sensor configured to detect a parameter associated with a function of the end effector, and transmit the detected parameter to the control circuit. Further, the control circuit may be configured to analyze the detected parameter based on a system-defined constraint and prevent at least one function of the surgical instrument based on a result of the analysis. The user interface may be configured to provide a current status regarding at least one prevented function of the surgical instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason L. Harris, David C. Yates
  • Patent number: 12207861
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide various techniques and systems for building machine-learning surgical tool presence/absence detection models for processing surgical videos and predicting whether a surgical tool is present or absent in each video frame of a surgical video. In one aspect, a process for ensuring patient safety during a laparoscopic or robotic surgery involving an energy tool is disclosed. The process can begin receiving a real-time control signal indicating an operating state of an energy tool during the surgery. Next, the process receives real-time endoscope video images of the surgery. The process simultaneously applies a machine-learning surgical tool presence/absence detection model to the real-time endoscope video images to generate real-time decisions on a location of the energy tool in the real-time endoscope video images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Verb Surgical Inc.
    Inventors: Meysam Torabi, Varun Kejriwal Goel, Danyal Fer, Jocelyn Barker, Amer Ghanem, Richard W. Timm
  • Patent number: 12201320
    Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for guiding a needle into a target location of a patient's body are provided. The system includes a planned needle guide trajectory and a guide for removable attachment to a smartphone. The guide includes at least one needle guiding aperture extending substantially perpendicularly to a screen of the smartphone. The needle guiding aperture defines an actual needle guide trajectory. An inclinometer application is running on the smartphone. The inclinometer application indicates to a user conformance of the actual needle guide trajectory to the planned needle guide trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Inventor: Joshua M. Polster
  • Patent number: 12201302
    Abstract: An elastic band ligation device for treatment of hemorrhoids including an inner tubular member for retaining a stretched elastic band over the front end thereof, a plunger in the tubular member with a handle extending away from the front end of the inner tubular member, the handle for sliding the plunger away from the rear end of the inner tubular member to provide a suction for drawing hemorrhoidal tissue into the inner tubular member through the opening at the front end. An obturator is disposed within the inner tubular member having a rounded end, the end of the obturator and the inner surface of the inner tubular member defining an anti-pinch structure. An outer tubular pusher sleeve is configured to provide a limited friction fit over the inner tubular member, with an external end of the outer tubular pusher sleeve adjacent the stretched elastic band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: CRH Medical Corporation
    Inventors: David Chotenovsky, Mitchel Guttenplan
  • Patent number: 12201521
    Abstract: A device for treating a diseased native valve in a patient is provided, the device including a frame structure and a plurality of leaflets. The device can further include a spiral anchor configured to extend around an outer circumference of the frame structure. The anchor can be configured to deliver a contrast agent into or near a target tissue. Other embodiments and methods of use are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Shifamed Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Amr Salahieh
  • Patent number: 12201526
    Abstract: Mitral valve prolapse and mitral regurgitation can be treating by implanting in the mitral annulus a transvalvular intraannular band. The band has a first end, a first anchoring portion located proximate the first end, a second end, a second anchoring portion located proximate the second end, and a central portion. The central portion is positioned so that it extends transversely across a coaptive edge formed by the closure of the mitral valve leaflets. The band may be implanted via translumenal access or via thoracotomy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Heart Repair Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Valavanur A. Subramanian, Thomas Afzal, Gary Hulme, Jeffrey Christian, Michael L. Reo
  • Patent number: 12201387
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for discretizing a movement or a motion of one or more robotic arms. The system may comprise a robotic arm, an end effector coupled to a distal portion of the robotic arm, and a trocar through which the end effector may be inserted. The trocar may comprise a trocar reference point. The system may further comprise a processor configured to (i) determine a starting position and a destination position of a distal end of the end effector, (ii) determine a path between the starting position and the destination position, (iii) determine a plurality of points along the path, and (iv) determine a set of motions to move the distal end of the end effector from the starting position to the destination position, based at least in part on the trocar reference point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: ACTIV Surgical, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Pickett, Vasiliy Buharin, Hossein Dehghani
  • Patent number: 12201477
    Abstract: The invention relates to systems and methods for the operation of three-dimensional imaging systems. Systems and methods of the invention are operable to display an image of tissue, receive a selection of points from within the image, establish a boundary corresponding to the selected points, and capture a three-dimensional image of the tissue within the designated boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nathaniel J. Kemp
  • Patent number: 12193664
    Abstract: A software for driving a motor in a powered surgical stapler can include a pausing monitoring process that may be effective to improve staple form and/or increase localized compression of tissue. The pausing monitoring process monitors firing speed of a firing bar driving by the motor and pauses the motor when the firing speed passes a speed error threshold. Before pausing the motor, the pausing monitoring process may also require that a pulse width modulated (PWM) electrical signal driving the motor has a duty cycle over a duty cycle threshold while the firing speed is beyond the speed error. The pausing monitoring process may force the firing bar through a predetermined distance immediately after pausing. The pausing monitoring process may be limited in the number of pauses that can be taken during a firing stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Shane R. Adams, Jason L. Harris
  • Patent number: 12193773
    Abstract: An interface structure for detachably interfacing a surgical robot arm to a surgical instrument, the interface structure comprising: a base portion comprising a first surface for facing the surgical instrument and a second surface for facing the surgical robot arm; and a plurality of first fasteners supported by the base portion and protruding from the first surface, the plurality of first fasteners configured to engage the surgical instrument so as to retain the interface structure to the surgical instrument. The interface structure engages the surgical robot arm so as to retain the interface structure to the surgical robot arm, wherein the plurality of first fasteners and the remainder of the interface structure are shaped such that when the surgical instrument is detached from the surgical robot arm the interface structure is retained to the surgical robot arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: CMR Surgical Limited
    Inventors: Nikki Priyam Su-Ling Phoolchund, Keith Marshall, Thomas Bates Jackson, Jonathan Peter Whittle, Dominic Martin McBrien
  • Patent number: 12193889
    Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems for tracking surgical items. The methods may be performed by one or more processors, and may include receiving a first count of surgical items, receiving one or more images, wherein each image is a field of view comprising one or more surgical items, determining a second count of surgical items based at least in part on the one or more received images, and providing a notification based on the comparison between the first count of surgical items and the second count of surgical items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Siddarth Satish, Mayank Kumar, Kevin J. Miller, Sheetal D. Jantikar, Daniel Goodman, Andrew T. Hosford, Charles Peterson Carroll
  • Patent number: 12193708
    Abstract: Catheter-based delivery systems for delivery and retrieval of a leadless pacemaker include features to facilitate improved manipulation of the catheter and improved capture and docking functionality of leadless pacemakers. Such functionality includes mechanisms directed to deflecting and locking a deflectable catheter, maintaining tension on a retrieval feature, protection from anti-rotation, and improved docking cap and drive gear assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PACESETTER, INC.
    Inventors: David Rickheim, Daniel Coyle, Dale Price, Jennifer Heisel
  • Patent number: 12193671
    Abstract: Surgical instruments and control systems therefor are disclosed. A surgical instrument can comprise: a power circuit comprising a power source and a switch, a microcontroller coupled to the power circuit, a handle comprising an attachment portion, and a control circuit in signal communication with the microcontroller. The attachment portion can comprise a first electrical contact in signal communication with the microcontroller. The control circuit can comprise a sensor configured to detect an attachment state of the attachment portion. The control circuit can communicate the detected attachment state to the microcontroller, and the microcontroller can ignore signals from the first electrical contact when the control circuit communicates a detached state. The attachment portion can comprise a second electrical contact coupled to a second power circuit, and the second power circuit can decouple the second electrical contact and the second power source when the sensor detects the detached state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Richard L. Leimbach, Mark D. Overmyer, Shane R. Adams
  • Patent number: 12186519
    Abstract: A delivery system for implanting a medical device comprises a delivery catheter having an inner lumen, a mandrel received in the inner lumen of the delivery catheter and movable with respect to the delivery catheter, and an adapter piece connected to the mandrel, wherein the adapter piece, by moving the mandrel with respect to the delivery catheter, is displaceable between a first position in which the adapter piece is received within the inner lumen of the delivery catheter and a second position in which the adapter piece is arranged outside of the inner lumen of the delivery catheter. A tethering member comprises a positive-locking member adjoining a tether portion, wherein the positive-locking member in a connection state is received on the adapter piece, but is releasable from the adapter piece by displacing the adapter piece from the first position towards the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Nicholas Devich, Eric Austin, Brian M. Taff
  • Patent number: 12186006
    Abstract: An energy treatment device includes: a base having electrical conductivity and including a treatment surface for applying a high-frequency current to a treatment target when being supplied with electrical energy. A coating, including a silane coupling agent having a coupling structure, is formed over at least the treatment surface of the base by a bond due to the coupling structure; and an organic layer is disposed between the treatment surface of the base and the coating, and is bonded to the surface of the base. The coupling structure of the coupling agent of the coating is bonded to the organic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsunetaka Akagane
  • Patent number: 12186135
    Abstract: Disclosed are various real-time robotic-assisted dimension measurement systems and techniques based on the collected kinematic data from one or more surgical tools within a robotic surgical system. In some embodiments, the collected kinematic data can include positions and orientations of each joint of the one or more surgical tools which are derived from positions and orientations of a set of arm joints of one or more robotic arms which the one or more surgical tools are attached to. The disclosed dimension measurement systems allow a surgeon to perform real-time length measurements of both straight-lines and curved-lines, as well as area and volume measurements on specified portions of tissues or organs by strategically placing the tips of the one or more surgical tools over the tissues or organs, while viewing the distal ends of the surgical tools in a user display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Verb Surgical Inc.
    Inventors: Jianning Mai, Wanning Zhu, Yiming Xu, Lela DiMonte, Mary Lynn Gaddis
  • Patent number: 12178528
    Abstract: A method of tracking usage of a robotic surgical instrument includes capturing an image of a surgical instrument with an imager during a robotic surgical procedure, identifying a type of the surgical instrument based on the image of the surgical instrument, determining a degree of usage of the surgical instrument based on data acquired by at least one sensor, and determining a stage in a life cycle of the surgical instrument based on the type of surgical instrument identified and the degree of usage determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventor: Arvind Ramadorai
  • Patent number: 12181269
    Abstract: An embodiment in accordance with the present invention provides a method for accurate and objective quantification of stone fragment size. The method includes intraoperative measurement of objects during URS. The method analyzes URS procedures for ureteral and renal stones during basket extraction of fragments. An instrument is passed through an instrument channel of the ureteroscope and advanced until it is adjacent to the stone fragment to be measured. The measurement of stone fragment size is based on the known distance of a tip of the instrument in the ureteroscope's visual field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Dan Stoianovici, Brian Matlaga, Sunghwan Lim, Wesley Warren Ludwig
  • Patent number: 12171514
    Abstract: An apparatus for use during robotic surgery, where the apparatus includes a robotic arm; a tool driver connected to the robotic arm; a cannula including a proximal portion and a distal portion wherein the proximal portion is coupled to the tool driver; and a damping element connected to one of the robotic arm, the tool driver and the cannula. Also, a method including guiding a surgical tool coupled to a robotic arm into a patient, wherein the surgical tool is disposed through a cannula and coupled to a tool driver coupled to a distal portion of the robotic arm; and maneuvering the tool driver by way of the robotic arm, wherein vibrations generated by the maneuvering are inhibited by a damping element coupled to one of the robotic arm, the tool driver and the cannula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Verb Surgical Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay Soundararajan, David James Cagle
  • Patent number: 12171653
    Abstract: An injection system for an intraocular lens (IOL) utilizes a folding device for the IOL. The folding device comprises a pair of co-acting winglets pivotable between an open position and a closed position, and together defining a hinge axis and a receptacle for the IOL. Each winglet has an outwardly extending, unitary leg portion defining a base plane that includes the hinge axis and a motion limiting protuberance on each said leg portion extending from the base plane. The base planes are situated at an angle relative to one another and the protuberances abut one another when the winglets are in the open position. The base planes merge into a single plane when the winglets are in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: MEDICONTUR MEDICAL ENGINEERING LTD.
    Inventors: Peter Hangya, Laszlo Kontur
  • Patent number: 12171450
    Abstract: Provided are surgical instruments, and more particularly, surgical instruments that may be manually operated to perform laparoscopic operations or various surgical operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: LIVSMED INC.
    Inventor: Jung Joo Lee
  • Patent number: 12171500
    Abstract: A locating system for a surgical suite includes optical markers coupled to a medical device. A sensor is configured to obtain an initial position data of the optical markers. A laser device is configured to obtain subsequent position data of the optical markers. A controller receives the initial position data from the sensor and the subsequent position data from the laser device. The controller is configured to determine a position of the medical device within the surgical suite and recognize a type of the medical device in response to the optical markers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Baxter Medical Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Tobias Klemm
  • Patent number: 12171513
    Abstract: A patient-side apparatus of a surgical system according to an embodiment may include: manipulator arms with multi-degree of freedom, each of which includes a distal end portion provided with a tool holding part configured to hold an elongated surgical tool; an arm base to which base end portions of the manipulator arms are attached; a base; and a positioner that includes links and joints to connect the base and the arm base such that the positioner movably holds the arm base. The links include a first link that is connected to a central portion of the arm base in a longitudinal direction of the arm base with a first roll joint arranged between the first link and the arm base. The positioner holds the arm base such that a first rotation axis of the first roll joint is inclined with respect to both a vertical direction and a horizontal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Hashimoto, Toshiaki Yoshida, Wataru Doi
  • Patent number: 12171647
    Abstract: A segmented skirted surgical mesh for use in reconstructing a soft tissue defect, the segmented skirted surgical mesh comprising: a base layer of surgical mesh, the base layer of surgical mesh comprising an outer edge; and a segmented continuous skirt of surgical mesh comprising an outer edge and an inner edge which defines a central opening, the segmented continuous skirt of surgical mesh being secured to the base layer of surgical mesh at the outer edge of the continuous skirt of surgical mesh, and the segmented continuous skirt of surgical mesh comprising a plurality of slits formed in the segmented continuous skirt of surgical mesh, wherein the plurality of slits extend outwardly from the inner edge of the segmented continuous skirt of surgical mesh, whereby to form a plurality of flaps of surgical mesh in the segmented continuous skirt of surgical mesh, such that at least one of the flaps of surgical mesh can be lifted away from the base layer of surgical mesh and secured to soft tissue without causin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Inventors: John W. Huelskamp, Eric Nelson, Eric Bouillet, William Wiecek
  • Patent number: 12167903
    Abstract: An articulating joint comprising a multi-cluster joint where every consecutive pair of links is interfaced by a gimbal, which offers rotation about two orthogonal axes within the same plane. Thus, the articulating joint comprises an alternating sequence of links and gimbals. Furthermore, there may be multiple cables attached to one or more of the links. As these cables are selectively pulled and released, one can achieve any desired articulation of the articulating joint. There may be a transmission member extending through the links and gimbals, parallel to the central longitudinal axis of the joint in its nominal non-articulated condition. This transmission member may be either a tension member that is pulled on (e.g. a cable or flexible pull rod) and that loads the articulating joint in compression, or the transmission member may be a flexible push rod that loads the articulating joint in tension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: FlexDex, Inc.
    Inventors: James Michael Licht, Shorya Awtar, Deepak Sharma, Zachary Zimmerman, Bruce Johnson, Christopher K. Holmes, Peter F. Costa, Brian Douglas Larose, Randall Sullivan, Ryan Brook Rank
  • Patent number: 12167897
    Abstract: This application relates to a robot arm structure and a manipulator of a surgical robot including the robot arm structure. The robot arm structure includes a first robot arm unit and a second robot arm unit. The first robot arm unit includes a plurality of first link arms, a first joint unit mounted on one of the first link arms and rotating the one of the first link arms about a first axis and a second joint unit installed on at least one of the plurality of first link arms to adjust a length of the at least one link arm. The second robot arm unit includes a second link arm connected to one of the first link arms and a third joint unit using a lengthwise direction of the second link arm as a first rotary shaft and rotating the second link arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: MEERE COMPANY INC.
    Inventors: Yo An Lim, Kil Hwan Choi, Jin Ah Sim, Chang Gil Jung, Dong Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 12167942
    Abstract: A surgery assisting device holds a surgical instrument having an end to be inserted into a body cavity of a patient, and controls one or more of a position or an orientation of the surgical instrument. The surgery assisting device includes a first arm and second arms. The first arm has a first end supported by a base and includes a first movable part having movement with one or more degrees of freedom. The second arms are arranged at a second end of the first arm and hold the surgical instrument. Each of the second arms includes second movable parts having movement with five or more degrees of freedom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: RIVERFIELD INC.
    Inventors: Kotaro Tadano, Masataka Suzuki