Tri Cao Nguyen

US Patent:

8105343, Jan 31, 2012

Filed:

Jun 18, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/487389

Inventors:

George W. White - Corona CA, US
David Gregoire - Mission Viejo CA, US
David Aldridge - Laguna Hills CA, US
Edward E. Dolendo - Mission Viejo CA, US
Emil Karapetian - Costa Mesa CA, US
Norman S. Gordon - Irvine CA, US
Tri Nguyen - Garden Grove CA, US

Assignee:

ArthroCare Corporation - Austin TX

International Classification:

A61B 17/04
A61B 17/12

US Classification:

606144

Abstract:

In repairing soft tissue with a bone anchoring instrument (such as reattaching a tendon of a torn rotator cuff), the bone anchoring instrument may be used to anchor the soft tissue to a region of bone. The anchors inserted into the underlying bone may have one or more lengths of suture or wire attached thereto which may be tensioned independently of one another to affix the soft tissue to the bone by having a selector mechanism selectively engage and disengage ratcheted tensioning wheels from one another. Suture loading mechanisms may be employed for passing suture lengths into and/or through the anchors prior to deployment into the bone where such mechanisms may employ suture snares which are configured to reconfigure from an expanded shape through which suture lengths may be easily passed to a low-profile shape which secures the suture lengths within the snare.

US Patent:

8617186, Dec 31, 2013

Filed:

Dec 22, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/334649

Inventors:

George W. White - Corona CA, US
David Gregoire - Mission Viejo CA, US
David Aldridge - Laguna Hills CA, US
Edward E. Dolendo - Mission Viejo CA, US
Emil Karapetian - Costa Mesa CA, US
Norman S. Gordon - Irvine CA, US
Tri Nguyen - Garden Grove CA, US

Assignee:

ArthroCare Corporation - Austin TX

International Classification:

A61B 17/04
A61B 17/12

US Classification:

606144

Abstract:

In repairing soft tissue with a bone anchoring instrument (such as reattaching a tendon of a torn rotator cuff), the bone anchoring instrument may be used to anchor the soft tissue to a region of bone. The anchors inserted into the underlying bone may have one or more lengths of suture or wire attached thereto which may be tensioned independently of one another to affix the soft tissue to the bone by having a selector mechanism selectively engage and disengage ratcheted tensioning wheels from one another. Suture loading mechanisms may be employed for passing suture lengths into and/or through the anchors prior to deployment into the bone where such mechanisms may employ suture snares which are configured to reconfigure from an expanded shape through which suture lengths may be easily passed to a low-profile shape which secures the suture lengths within the snare.

US Patent:

20090326562, Dec 31, 2009

Filed:

Jun 18, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/487338

Inventors:

George W. White - Corona CA, US
David Gregoire - Mission Viejo CA, US
David Aldridge - Laguna Hills CA, US
Edward E. Dolendo - Mission Viejo CA, US
Emil Karapetian - Costa Mesa CA, US
Norman S. Gordon - Irvine CA, US
Tri Nguyen - Garden Grove CA, US

International Classification:

A61B 17/10

US Classification:

606148, 606139

Abstract:

In repairing soft tissue with a bone anchoring instrument (such as reattaching a tendon of a torn rotator cuff), the bone anchoring instrument may be used to anchor the soft tissue to a region of bone. The anchors inserted into the underlying bone may have one or more lengths of suture or wire attached thereto which may be tensioned independently of one another to affix the soft tissue to the bone by having a selector mechanism selectively engage and disengage ratcheted tensioning wheels from one another. Suture loading mechanisms may be employed for passing suture lengths into and/or through the anchors prior to deployment into the bone where such mechanisms may employ suture snares which are configured to reconfigure from an expanded shape through which suture lengths may be easily passed to a low-profile shape which secures the suture lengths within the snare.

US Patent:

20090326563, Dec 31, 2009

Filed:

Jun 18, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/487352

Inventors:

George W. White - Corona CA, US
David Gregoire - Mission Viejo CA, US
David Aldridge - Laguna Hills CA, US
Edward E. Dolendo - Mission Viejo CA, US
Emil Karapetian - Costa Mesa CA, US
Norman S. Gordon - Irvine CA, US
Tri Nguyen - Garden Grove CA, US

International Classification:

A61B 17/04

US Classification:

606148

Abstract:

In repairing soft tissue with a bone anchoring instrument (such as reattaching a tendon of a torn rotator cuff), the bone anchoring instrument may be used to anchor the soft tissue to a region of bone. The anchors inserted into the underlying bone may have one or more lengths of suture or wire attached thereto which may be tensioned independently of one another to affix the soft tissue to the bone by having a selector mechanism selectively engage and disengage ratcheted tensioning wheels from one another. Suture loading mechanisms may be employed for passing suture lengths into and/or through the anchors prior to deployment into the bone where such mechanisms may employ suture snares which are configured to reconfigure from an expanded shape through which suture lengths may be easily passed to a low-profile shape which secures the suture lengths within the snare.

US Patent:

20230054497, Feb 23, 2023

Filed:

Aug 17, 2021

Appl. No.:

17/404436

Inventors:

- Elk Grove CA, US
Tri Nguyen - Sacramento CA, US

International Classification:

A61H 33/04
A45D 44/00

Abstract:

A paraffin warmer is disclosed herein, which allows paraffin to be easily heated to a melting temperature within a tub and transferred to a container via a heated spigot. A spigot has a liquid channel that allows liquid paraffin to flow from a cavity of the tub out the spigot into the container that may be at room temperature. The tub of the paraffin warmer and a liquid channel through the spigot may be heated with first and second heating elements to prevent liquid paraffin from solidifying in the liquid channel of the spigot that would clog the spigot. The first heating element may be wrapped around the spigot to heat the liquid channel from where the paraffin exits the tub to the distal end of the spigot.