US 12,070,241 B2
Systems and methods for hair transplant
Walfre Franco, Westborough, MA (US); Esmeralda Ibarra-Silva, Boston, MA (US); William A. Farinelli, Boston, MA (US); Joshua Tam, Boston, MA (US); R. Rox Anderson, Boston, MA (US); and Lynn Drake, Boston, MA (US)
Assigned to The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US)
Appl. No. 16/629,657
Filed by THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION, Boston, MA (US)
PCT Filed Jul. 16, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/042303
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 9, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/014677, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 17, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/587,758, filed on Nov. 17, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/532,892, filed on Jul. 14, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0145476 A1, May 20, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/3205 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/32 (2006.01); A61B 17/34 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 17/32053 (2013.01) [A61B 2017/00367 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00752 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00969 (2013.01); A61B 2017/320064 (2013.01); A61B 2017/3454 (2013.01); A61B 2090/034 (2016.02)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A hair transplant device comprising:
a coring needle forming a coring lumen configured to extract a hair follicle from a donor site;
a splitting needle configured to create an opening in a recipient site;
a housing at least partially surrounding one of the coring needle and the splitting needle; and
a user interface including a pin, the user interface extending from the housing and movable relative to the coring needle to push the hair follicle from the coring lumen into the opening in the recipient site formed by the splitting needle;
wherein the coring needle and the splitting needle are coaxially disposed within the housing, and are movable relative to the housing, such that the coring needle and the splitting needle are selectively and individually movable,
wherein the user interface is movable between a retracted position and an inserted position, and a distal tip of the pin of the user interface is prevented from extending distally past the splitting needle and the coring needle,
wherein the coring needle is moved distally relative to the housing to allow for extraction of the hair follicle.