US 12,343,032 B2
Surgical cutting device for ultrasonic guided soft tissue surgery
Darryl E. Barnes, Eagan, MN (US)
Assigned to Sonex Health, Inc., Eagan, MN (US)
Filed by Sonex Health, Inc., Eagan, MN (US)
Filed on May 1, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/652,282.
Application 18/652,282 is a continuation of application No. 17/647,391, filed on Jan. 7, 2022, granted, now 12,004,767.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/135,352, filed on Jan. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0293142 A1, Sep. 5, 2024
Int. Cl. A61B 17/32 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/320036 (2013.01) [A61B 2017/00367 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0042 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00738 (2013.01); A61B 17/32 (2013.01); A61B 2017/320012 (2013.01); A61B 2017/320028 (2013.01); A61B 2017/320048 (2013.01); A61B 2017/32007 (2017.08); A61B 2017/320075 (2017.08)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of cutting a transverse carpal ligament in a patient, the method comprising:
inserting a distal end of an inner tubular member of a cutting device into a wrist of the patient and under the transverse carpal ligament, wherein an outer surface of the inner tubular member comprises a ramp;
advancing an outer tubular member over the inner tubular member to cause the outer tubular member to ride over the ramp to cut the transverse carpal ligament; and
removing the cutting device from the wrist.