Medtronic Xomed, Inc.

Medtronic Ps Medical, Inc.

Mentor Worldwide LLC

Medtronics Ps Medical, Inc.

Vikram August Garadi

Manfred Karl Luedi

Thierry A Bieler

Christian R Koechli

Zachary S Heiliger

Larry Dale Estes

Durrell Tidwell

S Shane Dexter

Paul Cihak

R Mitchell Sherry

Milton F Barnes

Aayush Malla

Michael Vu

Hung Van Bach

Donna J Burnette

Walter Raymond Blackwell

Weiguo Chen

Kevin L Haney

Joseph William Lopez

Thomas M Meese

John Xinghai Wang

Joseph Henry Contiliano

Marc Feinberg

John Haroutunian

Manfred K Luedi

A motor for a surgical instrument includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a shaft and a magnet. The stator includes (i) a cavity in which the rotor is disposed, and (ii) a coil assembly. The coil assembly includes multiple phase sets. The phase sets include multiple sets of wires. Each of the phase sets includes multiple coils and corresponds to a respective one of the sets of wires. The coils in each of the phase sets are at respective positions about the rotor. One of the sets of wires includes at least three wires. The stator causes the rotor to axially rotate a surgical tool of the surgical instrument based on current received at the sets of wires.

Surgical instrument motor with increased number of wires per phase set and increased fill factor and corresponding manufacturing method

Disclosed is a system to engage one or more tools. In the system a drive shaft and collet may be assembled to engage and disengage, selectively, a plurality of tools. Further, a tracking device may be used to track a location of at least a portion of the tool.

Tracked powered drill assembly

A powered surgical handpiece including a housing, a printed circuit board, a sensor, and an actuator assembly. The housing has a longitudinal axis extending from a first end to a second end of the housing. The printed circuit board has a first face and a second opposing face. The first and second faces extend perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The sensor is coupled to the first face of the printed circuit board. The sensor is centered along the longitudinal axis of the housing. The actuator assembly includes a lever and an actuator. The lever is pivotally coupled to the housing. The lever maintains a magnet slidably positionable along the lever. The magnet is positionable to be proximal to the sensors.

Control for surgical handpiece

An implantable prosthesis includes a shell having an apex, a base, a radius located between the apex and the base, and a dome extending between the apex and the radius. The shell has an outer surface and an inner surface that surrounds an interior volume of the shell. At least one rib is integrally formed with the inner surface of the shell and projects inwardly from the inner surface of the shell into the interior volume of the shell. The shell has an interior volume that is adapted to receive a biocompatible filler material.

Systems, devices and methods of making mammary implants and tissue expanders having ribbed shells

A surgical cutting blade for cutting bone material when the blade is coupled to a hand-held surgical saw includes a distal portion comprising a plurality of cutting teeth, a shank portion adjacent the distal portion, and a proximal portion adjacent the shank portion. The proximal portion may include a longitudinally extending slot having a proximal opening. The slot may be shaped to receive a portion of the surgical saw through the proximal opening. The proximal portion may have a plurality of deflectable fingers respectively separated from a plurality of main body portions by respective gaps. The plurality of deflectable fingers may extend adjacent the longitudinally extending slot, and may deflect into the gaps to increase and decrease a width of a portion of the slot.

Deflectable finger connection feature on surgical saw blade

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Fort Worth, TX, United States of America

Vikram August Garadi