Patents by Inventor Allison Christine Capote
Allison Christine Capote has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11957387Abstract: Implementations described herein include a system that may include a deliver device, an annular anchor and an implant. The delivery device may include a distal end, a proximal and a lumen extending from the distal end to the proximal end. The annular anchor may be removably coupleable to the distal end of the delivery device. The annular anchor may be implantable at a target site in a patient via manipulation of the delivery device. The delivery device may be extendable outside the patient when the anchor is implanted at the target site. The implant may be deliverable through the delivery device to the target delivery site and implantable through the annular anchor. The delivery device may be coupled to the annular anchor to control a trajectory of the implant to the target site.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Zimmer Biomet Spine, Inc.Inventors: Terry Ziemek, Randall G. Mast, Allison Christine Capote
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Publication number: 20230346435Abstract: Spinal surgical procedures can benefit from a rod reduction instrument with a ratchet lock-out mechanism. The instrument can include an inner shaft, an outer housing and a ratchet mechanism. The inner shaft can include a threaded proximal portion and a distal end that includes a plurality of engagement members adapted to receive a pedicle screw. The outer housing can be slidably received over the inner shaft, and include a top sleeve and a bottom sleeve. The top sleeve can include the ratchet mechanism to selectively engage the threaded proximal portion of the inner shaft and the bottom sleeve can engage a connecting rod. The ratchet mechanism can include an engagement feature to selectively engage the threaded proximal portion of the inner shaft, and a locking mechanism to selectively lock the engagement feature of the ratchet mechanism against the threaded proximal portion of the inner shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Caleb Lee Stoll, Allison Christine Capote, Randall G. Mast
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Patent number: 11730523Abstract: Spinal surgical procedures can benefit from a rod reduction instrument with a ratchet lock-out mechanism. The instrument can include an inner shaft, an outer housing and a ratchet mechanism. The inner shaft can include a threaded proximal portion and a distal end that includes a plurality of engagement members adapted to receive a pedicle screw. The outer housing can be slidably received over the inner shaft, and include a top sleeve and a bottom sleeve. The top sleeve can include the ratchet mechanism to selectively engage the threaded proximal portion of the inner shaft and the bottom sleeve can engage a connecting rod. The ratchet mechanism can include an engagement feature to selectively engage the threaded proximal portion of the inner shaft, and a locking mechanism to selectively lock the engagement feature of the ratchet mechanism against the threaded proximal portion of the inner shaft.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Zimmer Biomet Spine, Inc.Inventors: Caleb Lee Stoll, Allison Christine Capote, Randall G. Mast
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Publication number: 20230157728Abstract: An anchor assembly can be couplable to a bone and can include an anchor and a housing. The anchor can include a shank securable to bone and a head coupled to a proximal portion of the shank.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2023Publication date: May 25, 2023Inventors: Allison Christine Capote, Randall G. Mast, Jared Parker, Thomas Serra, Caleb Lee Stoll
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Patent number: 11559333Abstract: An anchor assembly can be couplable to a bone and can include an anchor and a housing. The anchor can include a shank securable to bone and a head coupled to a proximal portion of the shank.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Zimmer Biomet Spine, Inc.Inventors: Allison Christine Capote, Randall G. Mast, Jared Parker, Thomas Serra, Caleb Lee Stoll
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Publication number: 20220354548Abstract: Spinal surgical procedures can benefit from a rod reduction instrument with a ratchet lock-out mechanism. The instrument can include an inner sleeve, a first housing portion, a second housing portion, a plurality of engagement members, and a ratchet mechanism. The inner sleeve can include a threaded proximal portion and a distal end. The first housing portion can be positioned over at least a portion of the inner sleeve. The second housing portion can be positioned proximate to the distal end of the inner sleeve. The plurality of engagement members can be adapted to receive a pedicle screw, and are positionable within the second housing portion. The ratchet mechanism can include an engagement feature to selectively engage the threaded proximal portion of the inner sleeve, and a locking mechanism to selectively lock the engagement feature of the ratchet mechanism against the threaded proximal portion of the inner sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: Randall G. Mast, Allison Christine Capote, Caleb Lee Stoll
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Publication number: 20220249138Abstract: A rod reducer can comprise a reducing mechanism, a hinge mechanism, a handle mechanism and a bearing mechanism. The reducing mechanism can comprise a first elongate member extending along an axis to engage a bone anchor, and a second elongate member configured to slide along the first elongate member to engage a rod. The hinge mechanism can slidably couple the first and second elongate members such that the elongate members can translate against each other. The handle mechanism can comprise handles coupled to the hinge mechanism and configured to cause the first and second elongate members to translate relative to each other. The bearing mechanism can be configured to permit the handles to rotate about the axis independent of the elongate members. Methods of using the rotating rod reducer can include rotating the handles out of the way of adjacent levels of a spinal column being simultaneously reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Randall G. Mast, Allison Christine Capote, Caleb Lee Stoll
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Publication number: 20220226023Abstract: Various implants and surgical techniques for dynamic spinal tethering systems are discussed. In an example, a spinal tethering system can comprise a flexible elongate spinal tethering cord and a plurality of vertebral implants connecting the cord across at least four spinal levels. In this example, each vertebral implant of the plurality of vertebral implants can include a dynamic head coupling each vertebral implant to the cord. The dynamic head of each vertebral implant can be configured to share cord tension across multiple spinal levels by releasing a first tension generated at a first level between two vertebral implants of the plurality of vertebral implants to generate a second tension across two spinal levels between three vertebral implants of the plurality of vertebral implants, wherein the second tension is lower than the first tension.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2021Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Randall G. Mast, Allison Christine Capote, Thomas Serra, John Spohn, Anup Gandhi, Amy Claeson
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Patent number: 11311321Abstract: A rod reducer can comprise a reducing mechanism, a hinge mechanism, a handle mechanism and a bearing mechanism. The reducing mechanism can comprise a first elongate member extending along an axis to engage a bone anchor, and a second elongate member configured to slide along the first elongate member to engage a rod. The hinge mechanism can slidably couple the first and second elongate members such that the elongate members can translate against each other. The handle mechanism can comprise handles coupled to the hinge mechanism and configured to cause the first and second elongate members to translate relative to each other. The beating mechanism can be configured to permit the handles to rotate about the axis independent of the elongate members. Methods of using the rotating rod reducer can include rotating the handles out of the way of adjacent levels of a spinal column being simultaneously reduced.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: ZIMMER BIOMET SPINE, INC.Inventors: Randall G. Mast, Allison Christine Capote, Caleb Lee Stoll
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Publication number: 20220110663Abstract: An anchor assembly can be couplable to a bone and can include an anchor and a housing. The anchor can include a shank securable to bone and a head coupled to a proximal portion of the shank. The housing can include a proximal portion including an anchor bore and a distal portion including a secondary bore configured to engage the anchor to limit angulation of the anchor relative to the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventor: Allison Christine Capote
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Patent number: 11241259Abstract: An anchor assembly can be couplable to a bone and can include an anchor and a housing. The anchor can include a shank securable to bone and a head coupled to a proximal portion of the shank. The housing can include a proximal portion including an anchor bore and a distal portion including a secondary bore configured to engage the anchor to limit angulation of the anchor relative to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Zimmer Biomet Spine, Inc.Inventor: Allison Christine Capote
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Publication number: 20220022925Abstract: A tool for breaking tabs of a vertebral bone anchor can include a tip, a first rail, and a second rail. The tip can be positionable over a housing of a vertebral bone anchor. The first rail can be pivotably coupled to the tip and can extend proximally away from the tip. The first rail can be configured to receive a first extended tab therein. The first rail can be pivotable with respect to the tip between a first upright position and a first outward position to break the first extended tab from the housing. The second rail can be pivotably coupled to the tip and can extend proximally away from the tip.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Caleb Lee Stoll, Randall G. Mast, Allison Christine Capote, Heidi Farmer, Guillaume Quetier, Daniel Burke
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Patent number: 11058437Abstract: A method of implanting a bone anchor in a vertebra comprises engaging a tip of a flexible drill bit with boney structure of the vertebra, rotating the flexible drill bit at a slow speed, pushing the drill bit into exterior cortical bone of the boney structure of the vertebra, guiding the flexible drill bit into cancellous bone of the vertebra, receiving a tactile output generated by the flexible drill bit indicating resistance of interior cortical bone of the boney structure against the flexible drill bit, and reorienting a trajectory of the flexible drill bit toward the cancellous bone of the vertebra in reaction to the tactile output.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Zimmer Biomet Spine, Inc.Inventors: Allison Christine Capote, Adam Costanza, David Lee Skaggs, Frank J. Schwab
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Publication number: 20210161568Abstract: Spinal surgical procedures can benefit from a rod reduction instrument with a ratchet lock-out mechanism. The instrument can include an inner shaft, an outer housing and a ratchet mechanism. The inner shaft can include a threaded proximal portion and a distal end that includes a plurality of engagement members adapted to receive a pedicle screw. The outer housing can be slidably received over the inner shaft, and include a top sleeve and a bottom sleeve. The top sleeve can include the ratchet mechanism to selectively engage the threaded proximal portion of the inner shaft and the bottom sleeve can engage a connecting rod. The ratchet mechanism can include an engagement feature to selectively engage the threaded proximal portion of the inner shaft, and a locking mechanism to selectively lock the engagement feature of the ratchet mechanism against the threaded proximal portion of the inner shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2021Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Caleb Lee Stoll, Allison Christine Capote, Randall G. Mast
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Patent number: 10918424Abstract: Spinal surgical procedures can benefit from a rod reduction instrument with a ratchet lock-out mechanism. The instrument can include an inner shaft, an outer housing and a ratchet mechanism. The inner shaft can include a threaded proximal portion and a distal end that includes a plurality of engagement members adapted to receive a pedicle screw. The outer housing can be slidably received over the inner shaft, and include a top sleeve and a bottom sleeve. The top sleeve can include the ratchet mechanism to selectively engage the threaded proximal portion of the inner shaft and the bottom sleeve can engage a connecting rod. The ratchet mechanism can include an engagement feature to selectively engage the threaded proximal portion of the inner shaft, and a locking mechanism to selectively lock the engagement feature of the ratchet mechanism against the threaded proximal portion of the inner shaft.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Zimmer Biomet Spine, Inc.Inventors: Caleb Lee Stoll, Allison Christine Capote, Randall G. Mast
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Publication number: 20200237408Abstract: Implementations described herein include a system that may include a deliver device, an annular anchor and an implant. The delivery device may include a distal end, a proximal and a lumen extending from the distal end to the proximal end. The annular anchor may be removably coupleable to the distal end of the delivery device. The annular anchor may be implantable at a target site in a patient via manipulation of the delivery device. The delivery device may be extendable outside the patient when the anchor is implanted at the target site. The implant may be deliverable through the delivery device to the target delivery site and implantable through the annular anchor. The delivery device may be coupled to the annular anchor to control a trajectory of the implant to the target site.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Terry Ziemek, Randall G. Mast, Allison Christine Capote
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Publication number: 20200229847Abstract: An anchor assembly can be couplable to a bone and can include an anchor and a housing. The anchor can include a shank securable to bone and a head coupled to a proximal portion of the shank.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2019Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Allison Christine Capote, Randall G. Mast, Jared Parker, Thomas Serra, Caleb Lee Stoll
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Patent number: 10653453Abstract: Implementations described herein include a system that may include a deliver device, an annular anchor and an implant. The delivery device may include a distal end, a proximal and a lumen extending from the distal end to the proximal end. The annular anchor may be removably coupleable to the distal end of the delivery device. The annular anchor may be implantable at a target site in a patient via manipulation of the delivery device. The delivery device may be extendable outside the patient when the anchor is implanted at the target site. The implant may be deliverable through the delivery device to the target delivery site and implantable through the annular anchor. The delivery device may be coupled to the annular anchor to control a trajectory of the implant to the target site.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Zimmer Biomet Spine, Inc.Inventors: Terry Ziemek, Randall G. Mast, Allison Christine Capote
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Publication number: 20200100818Abstract: A rod reducer can comprise a reducing mechanism, a hinge mechanism, a handle mechanism and a bearing mechanism. The reducing mechanism can comprise a first elongate member extending along an axis to engage a bone anchor, and a second elongate member configured to slide along the first elongate member to engage a rod. The hinge mechanism can slidably couple the first and second elongate members such that the elongate members can translate against each other. The handle mechanism can comprise handles coupled to the hinge mechanism and configured to cause the first and second elongate members to translate relative to each other. The beating mechanism can be configured to permit the handles to rotate about the axis independent of the elongate members. Methods of using the rotating rod reducer can include rotating the handles out of the way of adjacent levels of a spinal column being simultaneously reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Randall G. Mast, Allison Christine Capote, Caleb Lee Stoll
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Publication number: 20200069344Abstract: An anchor assembly can be couplable to a bone and can include an anchor and a housing. The anchor can include a shank securable to bone and a head coupled to a proximal portion of the shank. The housing can include a proximal portion including an anchor bore and a distal portion including a secondary bore configured to engage the anchor to limit angulation of the anchor relative to the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventor: Allison Christine Capote