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US 12,383,270 · App. 17/713,500 · Granted Aug 12, 2025

Force modulating tissue bridge

Inventor: Felmont Eaves (Atlanta, GA)
Assignee: BRIJ Medical, Inc.
A61B17/085A61B17/00491A61B2017/00862A61B2017/00951A61B17/064A61B17/10
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Patent No.
US 12,383,270
App. No.
17/713,500
Granted
Aug 12, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Medical devices disclosed herein include pre-defined structures for dispensing forces onto a tissue plane in a living organism and are utilized to adjust spatial relationships, orientations, and mechanical forces in a patient treatment area. The treatment area may be a wound, an incision, or a surgically accessed area within a patient that includes oppositely disposed sections that heal more efficiently and with less scarring when force vectors of a particular magnitude and direction are applied to the treatment area. The medical device provides a structure that may be pre-stressed through planned deformation that develops desirable spatial and mechanical relationships along the tissue plane for alignment, compression, advancement, eversion, inversion, distraction, rotation, angulation, and the control or modulation of tension across the treatment area.

Claims (36)

1. An apparatus for directing forces onto tissue, the apparatus comprising:

a tissue bridge comprising a central section having opposite first and second sides, a first lateral section extending from the first side, and a second lateral section extending from the second side, wherein:

the central section is flexible to allow the tissue bridge to have a predetermined configuration and a distortion-induced configuration,

the first and second lateral sections are farther separated from one another in the distortion-induced configuration than in the predetermined configuration, and

the central section comprises elastic material configured so that the tissue bridge is biased toward the predetermined configuration, and the central section comprises a flexible arch;

a flexible sheet comprising an attachment zone configured to be connected to tissue, wherein: the sheet is beneath the tissue bridge, the sheet comprises a central section positioned between first and second lateral sections of the sheet,

the sheet's first and second lateral sections are respectively connected to the tissue bridge's first and second lateral sections, and

the sheet's central section is disconnected from the tissue bridge's central section.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the sheet comprises a bandage.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the sheet comprises a medicinal sheet.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein all together the tissue bridge's central section and the tissue bridge's first and second lateral sections comprise a single piece construction.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the apparatus is configured so that the sheet is tensioned in the distortion-induced configuration.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:

the sheet is stretchable; and

the apparatus is configured so that the sheet is stretched in the distortion-induced configuration.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the sheet is elastic.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a region of the sheet's central section is not tensioned in the predetermined configuration.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the region of the sheet's central section is curved in the predetermined configuration.

10. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the apparatus is configured so that a gap defined between the tissue bridge's first and second lateral sections in the predetermined configuration is smaller than a gap defined between the tissue bridge's first and second lateral sections in the distortion-induced configuration.

11. The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the apparatus is configured so that the sheet's central section extends into the gap defined between the tissue bridge's first and second lateral sections in the predetermined configuration.

12. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:

the tissue bridge's central section extends over an area; and

the sheet's central section extends beneath the area.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein a gap is defined between the sheet's central section and the tissue bridge's central section.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the tissue bridge's first and second lateral sections extend outwardly relative to the area over which the tissue bridge's central section extends.

15. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:

the attachment zone is a first attachment zone that is on the sheet's first lateral section and faces away from the tissue bridge's first lateral section; and

a second attachment zone is on the sheet's second lateral section and faces away from the tissue bridge's second lateral section.

16. The apparatus according to claim 15 , wherein each of the first and second attachment zones comprise adhesive.

17. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:

the tissue bridge is elastically biased to cause the tissue bridge to reconfigure from the distortion-induced configuration to the predetermined configuration; and

the tissue bridge is configured so that the tissue bridge's first and second lateral sections rotate with respect to the tissue bridge's central section in response to the tissue bridge reconfiguring from the distortion-induced configuration to the predetermined configuration.

18. The apparatus according to claim 17 , wherein the apparatus is configured to be connected to the tissue while the tissue bridge is in the distortion-induced configuration.

19. The apparatus according to claim 18 , wherein the sheet's first and second lateral sections are configured to apply forces to the tissue in response to serial:

connection of the apparatus to the tissue while the tissue bridge is in the distortion-induced configuration, and

then the tissue bridge reconfiguring from the distortion-induced configuration towards the predetermined configuration.

Assignments (4)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 26, 2024
From: BRIJJIT MEDICAL, INC.
To: BRIJ MEDICAL, INC.
Reel/Frame 066895/0527 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Mar 22, 2023
From: BRIJJIT MEDICAL, INC.
To: EMRGE, LLC
Reel/Frame 063144/0165 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 15, 2023
From: EMRGE, LLC
To: BRIJJIT MEDICAL, INC.
Reel/Frame 062983/0879 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 13, 2022
From: EAVES, FELMONT F., III
To: EMRGE, LLC
Reel/Frame 060492/0111 →
Continuity (7)
Continuation 16406058 · May 8, 2019
Continuation 15659012 · Jul 25, 2017
Continuation 14038975 · Sep 27, 2013
Continuation PCTUS2012031638 · Mar 30, 2012
Provisional Application 61470158 · Mar 31, 2011
Provisional Application 61469966 · Mar 31, 2011
Related Publication 20220225991A1 · Jul 21, 2022
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