John A Leach

US Patent:

20100168522, Jul 1, 2010

Filed:

Oct 9, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/576295

Inventors:

Thomas Wenchell - Durham CT, US
David C. Racenet - Middletown CT, US
Anthony L. Ceniccola - Hamden CT, US
Danyel J. Racenet - Middletown CT, US
Nadia F. Neave - New Haven CT, US
Michael J. Bettuchi - Middletown CT, US
Margaret Uznanski - Great Neck NY, US
Kimberly E. Martin - Boulder CO, US
John Leach - Woodbridge CT, US
Fiona M. Haig - Cambridge, GB
Nicholas John Collier - Cambridge, GB
Alistair Fleming - Cambridge, GB
Cormac O'Prey - , US

International Classification:

A61B 1/32

US Classification:

600201

Abstract:

A surgical access assembly configured and dimensioned for positioning within an intercostal space defined between a patient's adjacent ribs to facilitate passage of a surgical instrument into an internal work site. The surgical access assembly includes a body portion that may be either partially or wholly formed from a resilient material such that the surgical access assembly is resiliently deformable to facilitate conformity with the intercostal space in order to minimize the application of force to the patient's tissue upon insertion and removal of the access assembly and manipulation of the surgical instrument.

US Patent:

20110264091, Oct 27, 2011

Filed:

Apr 6, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/080780

Inventors:

Rachel Suzanne Koppleman - Cambridge, GB
Charlotte Adele Clark - Cambridge, GB
Timothy N. Wells - Manchester CT, US
John Leach - Woodbridge CT, US
Denese Ann-Marie Slowly - Milford CT, US
Alistair Ian Fleming - Cambridge, GB
Nicholas John Collier - Cambridge, GB

International Classification:

A61B 18/14
A61B 17/32

US Classification:

606 41, 606167

Abstract:

A method for modifying a tissue specimen includes providing a specimen modifying apparatus configured to modify the specimen to thereby prevent seeding from the specimen. The specimen modifying apparatus is inserted through an opening in tissue and positioned adjacent the tissue specimen to be modified. The tissue modifying apparatus is activated to modify the tissue specimen to thereby inhibit seeding from the tissue specimen.