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App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19336208 WOUND DRESSING AND METHOD OF USE MENSH, ANDREW J 3781 §103 Final Rejection 12d Pending Sep 22, 2025
19019143 FLUID COLLECTION ANDERSON, CATHARINE L 3781 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 13, 2025
18980185 DRESSING FOR NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY WITH FILTER HAN, SETH 3781 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 13, 2024
18966612 SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR APPLYING BIOCOMPATIBLE ENCAPSULATION TO SENSOR ENABLED WOUND MONITORING AND THERAPY DRESSINGS DAGENAIS, KRISTEN A 1717 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 03, 2024
18902471 WOUND TREATMENT APPARATUSES AND METHODS WITH NEGATIVE PRESSURE SOURCE INTEGRATED INTO WOUND DRESSING ARBLE, JESSICA R 3781 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 30, 2024
18896332 WOUND DRESSING AND METHOD OF TREATMENT STEPHENS, JACQUELINE F 3781 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 25, 2024
18893187 CUSTOMIZABLE WOUND CLOSURE DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE ARBLE, JESSICA R 3781 §103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 23, 2024
18767430 ANTIMICROBIAL OR WOUND CARE MATERIALS, DEVICES AND USES PALENIK, JEFFREY T 1615 §103§112DP Final Rejection — Pending Jul 09, 2024
18385291 WOUND DRESSING AND METHOD OF TREATMENT ARBLE, JESSICA R 3781 §103 Final Rejection 19d Pending Oct 30, 2023
18373875 BESPOKE WOUND TREATMENT APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR USE IN NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY SMITH, PETER DANIEL 3781 §112Other Final Rejection 7d Pending Sep 27, 2023
18207618 SAFE OPERATION OF INTEGRATED NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND TREATMENT APPARATUSES WITTLIFF, KATERINA ANNA 3783 §103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 08, 2023
18081063 BIOCOMPATIBLE ENCAPSULATION AND COMPONENT STRESS RELIEF FOR SENSOR ENABLED NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY DRESSINGS KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN 3781 §103 Non-Final OA 79d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2022
17956008 WOUND DRESSING YANG, CHENG FONG 3781 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Sep 29, 2022
17676040 WOUND THERAPY SYSTEM AND DRESSING FOR DELIVERING OXYGEN TO A WOUND SMITH, PETER DANIEL 3781 §103§112 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Feb 18, 2022
19316235 USE OF ROBOTIC SURGICAL DATA FOR TRAINING UTAMA, ROBERT J 3715 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 02, 2025
19314368 FORCE-INDICATING RETRACTOR DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE KU, SI MING 3775 §103Other Final Rejection — Pending Aug 29, 2025
19177931 BONE PUNCH INSTRUMENT WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E 3775 §103Other Final Rejection — Pending Apr 14, 2025
19070951 SOFT ANCHORING TISSUE REPAIR ASSEMBLY AND SYSTEM RABAGLIA, BRIDGET ELIZABETH 3771 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 05, 2025
19103914 Modeling Tools for Total Shoulder Arthroplasty Pre-Operative Planning SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. 3684 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 14, 2025
19099949 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PLANNING A PATELLA REPLACEMENT PROCEDURE ZAMAN, SADARUZ 3715 §101§102 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 30, 2025
19027835 OPTICAL CALIPER FOR 3-D ENDOSCOPIC IMAGING AND MEASUREMENT LEE, BENEDICT E 2665 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2025
18982472 SMART, VIDEO-BASED JOINT DISTRACTOR POSITIONING SYSTEM LI, JOHN DENNY 3798 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 16, 2024
18873467 AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION FOR ACL REVISION OPERATIVE PLANNING GEDRA, OLIVIA ROSE 3681 §101§103 Non-Final OA 36d Pending Dec 10, 2024
18873168 POLYHEDRAL FIDUCIAL MARKERS FOR COMPUTER-ASSISTED SURGERY LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES 3619 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 09, 2024
18955383 TRACKING OF OFFSET REAMER HANDLE HANNA, SAMUEL SALEEB 3775 §103 Non-Final OA 43d Pending Nov 21, 2024
18953840 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POINT AND TOOL ACTIVATION CWERN, JONATHAN 3797 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 20, 2024
18944079 JOINT REPAIR AUGMENTATION ORKIN, ALEXANDER J 3771 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 12, 2024
18937245 ALL-SUTURE KNOTLESS MENISCAL REPAIR CONSTRUCT LE, KHOA TAN 3771 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 05, 2024
18936354 MEDICAL IMPLANT AND IMPLANTATION FRAME LYNCH, ROBERT A 3771 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 04, 2024
18854117 PROGRAMMER FOR USE IN A MOTORIZED SPATIAL FRAME COTRONEO, STEVEN J 3773 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 04, 2024
18890997 ADJUSTABLE FLEXIBLE CANNULA JOHANAS, JACQUELINE T 3773 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 20, 2024
18770279 TISSUE ANCHOR DEPLOYMENT DEVICE, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS TON, MARTIN TRUYEN 3771 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 11, 2024
18768484 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING 3D MODELS OF EXISTING BONE TUNNELS FOR SURGICAL PLANNING RAMANA, ANURADHA 3775 §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 10, 2024
18761873 TUNNEL DRILLING AIMER AND ISO-ANGLE USER INTERFACE BRUCE, FAROUK A 3797 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 02, 2024
18722273 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DETERMINING BONE CHARACTERISTICS AND BONE PREPARATION PLANS GIBSON, ERIC SHANE 3775 §101 Non-Final OA 55d Pending Jun 20, 2024
18708018 ORTHOPEDIC SURGICAL INSTRUMENT BATES, DAVID W 3799 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 07, 2024
18655704 TEMPLATE FOR TIBIAL BASEPLATE REMOVAL KAMIKAWA, TRACY L 3775 §102§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending May 06, 2024
18697037 BONE REAMER VIDEO BASED NAVIGATION MALDONADO, STEVEN 3797 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 29, 2024
18693603 LATERALIZATION ANTEVERSION CHU, DAVID H — §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 20, 2024
18687502 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING A FEMORAL ARRAY CLAMP HARVEY, JULIANNA NANCY 3773 §103 Non-Final OA 147d overdue Pending Feb 28, 2024
18414781 TISSUE REPAIR CONSTRUCTS AND METHODS OF USE HOAG, MITCHELL BRAIN 3771 §103 Final Rejection 23d Pending Jan 17, 2024
18501258 MEDICAL IMPLANT DELIVERY SYSTEM FLORES, ADRIAN 3774 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 03, 2023
18555935 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITIONS TO THE NASAL CAVITY USING IONTOPHORESIS HARRIS, WESLEY G 3783 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 18, 2023
18471677 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF CONTROL OF CONDUCTIVE FLUID DURING COAGULATION DELLA, JAYMI E 3794 §103 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Sep 21, 2023
18280920 ADAPTIVE LEARNING FOR ROBOTIC ARTHROPLASTY KARIM, ZIAUL 2141 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 07, 2023
18276722 Methods and Systems for Planning and Performing Implant Surgery PATEL, SHERYL GOPAL 3685 §101§103 Non-Final OA 24d overdue Pending Aug 10, 2023
18265088 SURGICAL PLANNING FOR BONE DEFORMITY OR SHAPE CORRECTION GEBRESILASSIE, KIBROM K 2189 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 02, 2023
18036970 FIBER OPTIC CABLE FOR LESS INVASIVE BONE TRACKING DAVIS, AMELIE R 3798 §103§112 Final Rejection 22d Pending May 15, 2023
18252492 DATA OWNERSHIP COMPLIANCE SOLUTION BALAJ, ANTHONY MICHAEL 3682 §101 Non-Final OA 39d Pending May 10, 2023
17978289 KNOTLESS ANCHOR DRIVE SYSTEM MCGINNITY, JAMES RYAN 3771 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Nov 01, 2022
17897789 TISSUE REPAIR IMPLANT AND COMPOSITIONS AND METHOD OF IMPLANTATION DUDDEN, TERESA MARIE 3774 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 29, 2022
17875114 BIOACTIVE SCAFFOLD AUGMENTATION FOR ACL RECONSTRUCTION DUDDEN, TERESA MARIE 3774 §103 Final Rejection 46d Pending Jul 27, 2022
17790869 METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS TO DESCRIBE DEFORMITY OF A BONE BAILEY, STEVEN WILLIAM 1687 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 15d Pending Jul 05, 2022
17631249 ORTHOPAEDIC IMPLANT WILLSE, DAVID H 3774 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Jan 28, 2022
19311535 ORTHOPEDIC IMPACTOR INCLUDING A SOLENOID ARMATURE POSITION SENSING SYSTEM YANG, ANDREW 3775 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 27, 2025
19290948 FORCE-INDICATING RETRACTOR DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE KU, SI MING 3775 §102§103Other Final Rejection — Pending Aug 05, 2025
19243900 IMPACTOR DESIGN FOR BIDIRECTIONAL IMPACT FORCE SIPP, AMY R. 3775 §102§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 20, 2025
19192959 HANDPIECE TRIGGERING DEVICE LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES 3619 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 29, 2025
19091046 VIRTUAL ALIGNMENT OF PATIENT ANATOMY PEHLKE, CAROLYN A 3799 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 26, 2025
19073244 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING RESECTION PLANES HANNA, SAMUEL SALEEB 3775 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 07, 2025
19012289 OPTICAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS DUNPHY, DAVID F 2673 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 07, 2025
18849931 ELECTROSURGICAL LARYNGEAL WAND COLLINS, SEAN W 3794 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 23, 2024
18720957 MODULAR INSERTS FOR NAVIGATED SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS JACOB, OOMMEN 3797 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 17, 2024
18711311 PATELLA TRACKING CELESTINE, NYROBI I 3798 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending May 17, 2024
18614884 MARKER BASED OPTICAL 3D TRACKING SYSTEM CALIBRATION TUCKER, WESLEY J 2661 §102 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 25, 2024
18030957 AUTOMATIC PATELLAR TRACKING IN TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY WOZNICKI, JACQUELINE 3774 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Apr 07, 2023
17794518 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MULTI-STAGE ROBOTIC ASSISTED BONE PREPARATION FOR CEMENTLESS IMPLANTS KAMIKAWA, TRACY L 3775 §103 Final Rejection 56d overdue Pending Jul 21, 2022
17438793 SYSTEMS AND METHODS ASSOCIATED WITH PASSIVE ROBOTIC ARM MOTT, ADAM R 3657 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 13, 2021
17282545 DUAL-POSITION TRACKING HARDWARE MOUNT FOR SURGICAL NAVIGATION ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A 3798 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 02, 2021
17068401 DETERMINING A RANGE OF MOTION OF AN ARTIFICIAL KNEE JOINT BROWN, HELENE CATHERINE 3797 §101§112 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Oct 12, 2020
19307968 MEDICAL DEVICE CATTUNGAL, SANJAY 3798 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 22, 2025
19194479 SLOTTED CANULLA FOR ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY DANG, ANH TIEU 3771 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 30, 2025
18982637 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY TO MANAGE OPEN ABDOMINAL WOUNDS TRAN, NHU 3781 §112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 16, 2024
18953827 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING BONE JOINT LAXITY WAGGLE, JR, LARRY E 3775 §101§112DP Final Rejection — Pending Nov 20, 2024
18790445 FIXATION-FREE ROBOTIC SURGERY YANG, ANDREW 3775 §102Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 31, 2024
18669657 ELECTROSURGICAL SYSTEMS AND METHODS PREMRAJ, CATHERINE C 3794 §103 Final Rejection — Pending May 21, 2024
18667369 STABLE THERMOLYSIN HYDROGEL BOWERS, ERIN M 1653 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending May 17, 2024
18645163 SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTINUAL DRAINAGE IN NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY SU, SUSAN SHAN 3781 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 24, 2024
18603851 SMART LIGHT ISOLATOR WU, PAMELA F 3795 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 13, 2024
18418118 APPARATUS FOR VACUUM BRIDGING AND/OR EXUDATE COLLECTION DEL PRIORE, ALESSANDRO R 3781 §112DP Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jan 19, 2024
18406812 IMPLANT CUTTING BLOCK PIN PLACEMENT BOLES, SAMEH RAAFAT 3775 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 08, 2024
18396800 IMPACTOR BATES, DAVID W 3799 §102§103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Dec 27, 2023
18224352 NEGATIVE PRESSURE DRESSING AND METHOD OF USING SAME LEWIS, KIM M 3786 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Jul 20, 2023
18217432 CANISTER FOR A NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY SYSTEM DEL PRIORE, ALESSANDRO R 3781 §102§103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Jun 30, 2023
18120726 USE OF THERMOLYSIN TO REDUCE OR ELIMINATE BACTERIAL BIOFILMS FROM SURFACES HAGOPIAN, CASEY SHEA 1617 §103DP Final Rejection — Pending Mar 13, 2023
17752745 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY WIEST, PHILIP R 3781 §103§112 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending May 24, 2022
16887924 KNEE PROSTHESIS PRONE, CHRISTOPHER D 3774 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 29, 2020
16614667 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE POSITION AND ORIENTATION OF AN IMPLANT FOR JOINT REPLACEMENT SURGERY LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P 3791 §101§112 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 18, 2019
19025741 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATING NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY DEVICES LEVY, BRANDON WILLIAM 3781 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 16, 2025
18982557 OPTICAL FIBERS FOR OPTICALLY SENSING THROUGH WOUND DRESSINGS PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH 3781 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 16, 2024
18944633 NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY DRESSING RECOGNITION, WOUND STATUS DETECTION, AND THERAPY ADJUSTMENT KALIHER, HANS CHRISTIAN 3781 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 12, 2024
18848362 DISTRIBUTED NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY SYSTEMS AND METHODS MENSH, ANDREW J 3781 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 18, 2024
18790614 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY WITH SWITCHABLE FLUID MANAGEMENT FLYNN, TIMOTHY LEE 3781 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 31, 2024
18716925 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING PRESSURE DELIVERY BY NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY DEVICES ZIMBOUSKI, ARIANA 3781 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 05, 2024
18696653 WOUND DRESSING APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR NITRIC OXIDE DELIVERY WRUBLESKI, MATTHEW JAMES 3781 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Mar 28, 2024
18571520 LIQUID INGRESS PROTECTION AND DESIGN OF ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY FOR NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY SYSTEMS PHAM, KATHERINE-PH MINH 3781 §103 Final Rejection 39d Pending Dec 18, 2023
18027861 METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A FABRIC FOR A WOUND DRESSING RASSAVONG, ERIC 3781 §103§112 Non-Final OA 86d Pending Mar 22, 2023
18100910 REDUCED PRESSURE THERAPY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING PATIENT MOVEMENT RAYMOND, LINNAE ELIZABETH 3781 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 24, 2023
17915836 WOUND DRESSING MOK, ANDREW JUN-WAI 3786 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 29, 2022
17907924 LOW COMPLEXITY LOAD MONITOR KREMER, MATTHEW 3791 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 29, 2022
17785819 MONITORING AND THERAPY DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING SAME PAPE, ALYSSA MORGAN 3794 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Jun 15, 2022
17768416 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PAIRING WITH WOUND THERAPY DEVICES RASSAVONG, ERIC 3781 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 12, 2022
17767257 SAFETY CIRCUITS FOR IMAGING WITH SENSOR INTEGRATED DRESSINGS AND SYSTEMS LEE, WOO KYUNG 2815 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Apr 07, 2022
17766986 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY RASSAVONG, ERIC 3781 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Apr 06, 2022
17601020 DATA RECORDER IN WOUND THERAPY SYSTEMS HAN, SETH 3700 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 01, 2021

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