Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Joel Shea
Jeffrey Joel Shea 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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Publication number: 20220226122Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for orthopedic implants. The implants may include a base member, such as an acetabular shell or an augment, that is configured to couple with an augment, flange cup, mounting member, or any other suitable orthopedic attachment.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2022Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Joel Shea, Ryan L. Landon
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Patent number: 11351031Abstract: A device, for example a medical implant, and a method of making the same, the device having a metal or metal alloy substrate, for example cobalt chrome, and a diffusion hardened metallic surface, for example a plasma carburized surface, contacting a non-diffusion hardened surface or a diffusion hardened surface having a diffusion hardening species different from that of the opposing surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Timothy John Band, Hamish Forster, Gordon Bruce Hunter, Shilesh C. Jani, Mark Lee Morrison, Vivek Devidas Pawar, Abraham Biglari Salehi, Jeffrey Joel Shea
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Publication number: 20220079763Abstract: A modular variable blade augment including an augment component and a blade component. The blade component includes a buttress portion and a neck portion, with the neck portion having a body segment and a face segment that is contoured for mating engagement with an outer surface of the acetabular shell. The augment component has a first opening sized and shaped to receive insertion of the body segment, and which is also sized to accommodate selective adjustment of linear and angular orientations of the blade component relative to the augment component when the body segment is positioned in the first opening. Additionally, the body segment has a length that is sized to facilitate direct contact of the face segment with the acetabular shell when the modular variable blade augment is in an assembled configuration. Further, cement can be injected into the internal cavity to unitize the connection between the acetabular shell and the blade component.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Jennifer Kristin Anderson, Jeffrey Joel Shea, Richard Douglas Lambert
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Publication number: 20220039961Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for orthopedic implants. The implants may include a base member, such as an acetabular shell or an augment, that is configured to couple with an augment, flange cup, mounting member, or any other suitable orthopedic attachment. Mounting members include, for example, flanges, blades, hooks, and plates. In some embodiments, the orthopedic attachments may be adjustably positionable about the base member or other attachments, thereby providing modularity for assembling and implanting the device, and various securing and/or locking mechanisms may be used between the components of the implant.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Justin Steve Conway, David C. Kelman, Richard D. Lambert, Jeffrey A. Sharp, Jeffrey Joel Shea, Brian Ronald Yokoo
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Patent number: 11213396Abstract: A modular variable blade augment including an augment component and a blade component. The blade component includes a buttress portion and a neck portion, with the neck portion having a body segment and a face segment that is contoured for mating engagement with an outer surface of the acetabular shell. The augment component has a first opening sized and shaped to receive insertion of the body segment, and which is also sized to accommodate selective adjustment of linear and angular orientations of the blade component relative to the augment component when the body segment is positioned in the first opening. Additionally, the body segment has a length that is sized to facilitate direct contact of the face segment with the acetabular shell when the modular variable blade augment is in an assembled configuration. Further, cement can be injected into the internal cavity to unitize the connection between the acetabular shell and the blade component.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Jennifer Kristin Anderson, Jeffrey Joel Shea, Richard Douglas Lambert
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Publication number: 20200078179Abstract: A device, for example a medical implant, and a method of making the same, the device having a metal or metal alloy substrate, for example cobalt chrome, and a diffusion hardened metallic surface, for example a plasma carburized surface, contacting a non-diffusion hardened surface or a diffusion hardened surface having a diffusion hardening species different from that of the opposing surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Inventors: Timothy John Band, Hamish Forster, Gordon Bruce Hunter, Shilesh C. Jani, Mark Lee Morrison, Vivek Devidas Pawar, Abraham Biglari Salehi, Jeffrey Joel Shea
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Patent number: 10568741Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for orthopedic implants. The implants may include a base member, such as an acetabular shell or an augment, that is configured to couple with an augment, flange cup, mounting member, or any other suitable orthopedic attachment. Any of the implantable components may be include one or more porous surfaces. The porous surface may be textured by protrusions that connect to and extend from the surface. The sizes and concentration of the protrusions may be varied for specific applications to accommodate different implants and patient anatomies. A porous implant may also include one or more internal or external solid portions that strengthen the implant.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Justin Steve Conway, Ryan L. Landon, Jeffrey Joel Shea
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Patent number: 10512544Abstract: A device, for example a medical implant, and a method of making the same, the device having a metal or metal alloy substrate, for example cobalt chrome, and a diffusion hardened metallic surface, for example a plasma carburized surface, contacting a non-diffusion hardened surface or a diffusion hardened surface having a diffusion hardening species different from that of the opposing surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2017Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Timothy John Band, Hamish Forster, Gordon Bruce Hunter, Shilesh C. Jani, Mark Lee Morrison, Vivek Devidas Pawar, Abraham Biglari Salehi, Jeffrey Joel Shea
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Publication number: 20190282366Abstract: A modular variable blade augment including an augment component and a blade component. The blade component includes a buttress portion and a neck portion, with the neck portion having a body segment and a face segment that is contoured for mating engagement with an outer surface of the acetabular shell. The augment component has a first opening sized and shaped to receive insertion of the body segment, and which is also sized to accommodate selective adjustment of linear and angular orientations of the blade component relative to the augment component when the body segment is positioned in the first opening. Additionally, the body segment has a length that is sized to facilitate direct contact of the face segment with the acetabular shell when the modular variable blade augment is in an assembled configuration. Further, cement can be injected into the internal cavity to unitize the connection between the acetabular shell and the blade component.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Jennifer Kristin Anderson, Jeffrey Joel Shea, Richard Douglas Lambert
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Patent number: 10350073Abstract: A modular variable blade augment including an augment component and a blade component. The blade component includes a buttress portion and a neck portion, with the neck portion having a body segment and a face segment that is contoured for mating engagement with an outer surface of the acetabular shell. The augment component has a first opening sized and shaped to receive insertion of the body segment, and which is also sized to accommodate selective adjustment of linear and angular orientations of the blade component relative to the augment component when the body segment is positioned in the first opening. Additionally, the body segment has a length that is sized to facilitate direct contact of the face segment with the acetabular shell when the modular variable blade augment is in an assembled configuration. Further, cement can be injected into the internal cavity to unitize the connection between the acetabular shell and the blade component.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Jennifer Kristin Anderson, Jeffrey Joel Shea, Richard Douglas Lambert
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Patent number: 10265177Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for orthopedic implants. The implants may include a base member, such as an acetabular shell or an augment, that is configured to couple with an augment, flange cup, mounting member, or any other suitable orthopedic attachment. An implant may include a base member that has at least two projections with a gap between the projections. The gap between the projections allows the implant to fee implanted around another implanted component, such as around a bone screw of an acetabular shell. The implant may include a fixation element, such as a screw or a cement trough, on one or more projections to couple the implant to an implanted acetabular shell. The implant may also include timing marks to facilitate alignment with corresponding marks on another implanted component.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Nathaniel Quinn, Jeffrey Joel Shea
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Publication number: 20180263781Abstract: A modular variable blade augment including an augment component and a blade component. The blade component includes a buttress portion and a neck portion, with the neck portion having a body segment and a face segment that is contoured for mating engagement with an outer surface of the acetabular shell. The augment component has a first opening sized and shaped to receive insertion of the body segment, and which is also sized to accommodate selective adjustment of linear and angular orientations of the blade component relative to the augment component when the body segment is positioned in the first opening. Additionally, the body segment has a length that is sized to facilitate direct contact of the face segment with the acetabular shell when the modular variable blade augment is in an assembled configuration. Further, cement can be injected into the internal cavity to unitize the connection between the acetabular shell and the blade component.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Jennifer Kristin Anderson, Jeffrey Joel Shea, Richard Douglas Lambert
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Publication number: 20180140427Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for orthopedic implants. The implants may include a base member, such as an acetabular shell or an augment, that is configured to couple with an augment, flange cup, mounting member, or any other suitable orthopedic attachment. Mounting members include, for example, flanges, blades, hooks, and plates. In some embodiments, the orthopedic attachments may be adjustably positionable about the base member or other attachments, thereby providing modularity for assembling and implanting the device, and various securing and/or locking mechanisms may be used between the components of the implant.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2018Publication date: May 24, 2018Inventors: Justin Steve Conway, David C. Kelman, Richard D. Lambert, Jeffrey A. Sharp, Jeffrey Joel Shea, Brian Ronald Yokoo
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Patent number: 9949836Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for orthopedic implants. The implants may include a base member, such as an acetabular shell or an augment, that is configured to couple with an augment, flange cup, mounting member, or any other suitable orthopedic attachment. An implant may include abuse member that has at least two projections with a gap between the projections. The gap between the projections allows the implant to be implanted around another implanted component, such as around a bone screw of an acetabular shell. The implant may include a fixation element, such as a screw or a cement trough, on one or more projections to couple the implant to an implanted acetabular shell. The implant may also include timing marks to facilitate alignment with corresponding marks on another implanted component.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Nathaniel Quinn, Jeffrey Joel Shea
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Patent number: 9931210Abstract: A variable angle blade augment including an augment component and a blade component. The blade component includes a buttress portion and a neck portion, with the neck portion having a body segment and a face segment that is contoured for mating engagement with an outer surface of the acetabular shell. The augment component has a first opening sized and shaped to receive insertion of the body segment, and which is also sized to accommodate selective adjustment of, when the body segment is positioned in the first opening, linear and angular orientations of the blade component relative to the augment component. Additionally, the body segment has a length that is sized to facilitate direct contact of the face segment with the acetabular shell when the variable angle blade augment is in an assembled configuration. Further, cement can be injected into the internal cavity to unitize the connection between the acetabular shell and the blade component.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2017Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Jennifer Kristin Anderson, Jeffrey Joel Shea, Richard Douglas Lambert, Michael Scott Bennett
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Patent number: 9901451Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for orthopedic implants. The implants may include a base member, such as an acetabular shell or an augment, that is configured to couple with an augment, flange cup, mounting member, or any other suitable orthopedic attachment. Mounting members include, for example, flanges, blades, hooks, and plates. In some embodiments, the orthopedic attachments may be adjustably positionable about the base member or other attachments, thereby providing modularity for assembling and implanting the device, and various securing and/or locking mechanisms may be used between the components of the implant.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2014Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Justin Steve Conway, David C. Kelman, Richard D. Lambert, Jeffrey A. Sharp, Jeffrey Joel Shea, Brian Ronald Yokoo
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Publication number: 20180042727Abstract: A device, for example a medical implant, and a method of making the same, the device having a metal or metal alloy substrate, for example cobalt chrome, and a diffusion hardened metallic surface, for example a plasma carburized surface, contacting a non-diffusion hardened surface or a diffusion hardened surface having a diffusion hardening species different from that of the opposing surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2017Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Timothy John Band, Hamish Forster, Gordon Bruce Hunter, Shilesh C. Jani, Mark Lee Morrison, Vivek Devidas Pawar, Abraham Biglari Salehi, Jeffrey Joel Shea
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Patent number: 9889013Abstract: A variable angle blade augment including an augment section and a separate plate or blade segment. According to some embodiments, a first connector of the blade segment and a socket capture mechanism of the augment section provide a ball and socket type joint. Additionally, the socket capture mechanism may be structured to allow for linear displacement of the first connector relative to at least one axis of the socket capture mechanism. By allowing for at least pivotal and linear relative displacement of the augment section and the blade segment, the variable angle blade augment may improve the ability to optimally position a buttress augment against a prosthetic acetabular shell. Moreover, the variable angle blade augment may provide the ability to utilize components of an implantable medical device after stabilizing the components to a bone structure of a patient.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Joel Shea, Richard Douglas Lambert, Michael Scott Bennett
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Publication number: 20170246001Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for orthopedic implants. The implants may include a base member, such as an acetabular shell or an augment, that is configured to couple with an augment, flange cup, mounting member, or any other suitable orthopedic attachment. Any of the implantable components may be include one or more porous surfaces. The porous surface may be textured by protrusions that connect to and extend from the surface. The sizes and concentration of the protrusions may be varied for specific applications to accommodate different implants and patient anatomies. A porous implant may also include one or more internal or external solid portions that strengthen the implant.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2017Publication date: August 31, 2017Inventors: Justin Steve Conway, Ryan L. Landon, Jeffrey Joel Shea
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Patent number: 9707083Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are provided for orthopedic implants. The implants may include a base member, such as an acetabular shell or an augment, that is configured to couple with an augment, flange cup, mounting member, or any other suitable orthopedic attachment. Any of the implantable components may be include one or more porous surfaces. The porous surface may be textured by protrusions that connect to and extend from the surface. The sizes and concentration of the protrusions may be varied for specific applications to accommodate different implants and patient anatomies. A porous implant may also include one or more internal or external solid portions that strengthen the implant.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2014Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Justin Steve Conway, Ryan L. Landon, Jeffrey Joel Shea