Patents by Inventor Nicolas Bouduban
Nicolas Bouduban 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: 11793506Abstract: A suture anchor method including a suture anchor and a suture anchor drive. The suture anchor is positionable on a rod of the suture anchor drive. The rod defines an awl for forming a hole in a bone. The suture anchor drive further has an impactor for moving the suture anchor along the rod between a retracted position and an advanced position so as to implant the suture anchor in the bone with the awl positioned in the bone.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Nicolas Bouduban, Patrick Burki, Beat Lechmann, Philippe Gedet
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Patent number: 11779318Abstract: An insertion instrument is configured to eject at least one anchor body into respective target locations, and subsequently apply a predetermined tensile force at least one actuation member of the at least one anchor member so as to actuate the at least one anchor body from a first configuration to a second expanded configuration. The insertion instrument can include a tension assembly that applies the predetermined tensile force to the at least one actuation member. The predetermined tensile force can be defined by a distance of travel, a predetermined failure force of a fuse, or a combination of distance of travel and a predetermined failure force of a fuse.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Ernie Corrao, Ron George Litke, Jr., Wamis Singhatat, Scott Larsen, Stephen Joseph Snyder, Nicolas Bouduban, Robert L. Richards
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Publication number: 20220280170Abstract: Systems and methods for preparing a bone for a surgical procedure are provided. In general, the described techniques use a surgical guide device including a cannula having first and second parallel elongate channels adjacent to one another, and first and second elongate sleeves configured to be removably and replaceably received in the first and second channels, respectively. The first sleeve has a plurality of openings formed therein, each being in communication with a respective wire-receiving lumen extending through the first sleeve. Each of the openings defines a different offset distance between the wire-receiving lumen in communication with that opening and a wire-receiving lumen extending through the second sleeve. The surgical device can be manipulated so as to define positions of first and second openings in a bone, such as a glenoid or other bone, to receive bone screws or other elements for attaching a bone graft to the bone.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Nicolas Bouduban, Patrick Burki, Laurent Lafosse
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Patent number: 11344323Abstract: Systems and methods for preparing a bone for a surgical procedure are provided. In general, the described techniques use a surgical guide device including a cannula having first and second parallel elongate channels adjacent to one another, and first and second elongate sleeves configured to be removably and replaceably received in the first and second channels, respectively. The first sleeve has a plurality of openings formed therein, each being in communication with a respective wire-receiving lumen extending through the first sleeve. Each of the openings defines a different offset distance between the wire-receiving lumen in communication with that opening and a wire-receiving lumen extending through the second sleeve. The surgical device can be manipulated so as to define positions of first and second openings in a bone, such as a glenoid or other bone, to receive bone screws or other elements for attaching a bone graft to the bone.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Medos International SarlInventors: Nicolas Bouduban, Patrick Burki, Laurent Lafosse
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Patent number: 11197667Abstract: A compression screw comprising a threaded shaft and a head associated with the proximal end of the shaft. The head has a plurality of outwardly extending projections spaced from one another so as to define a plurality of recesses there between for receiving a screw drive in such a way that rotational force may be transferred from the screw drive to the screw. The projections of the head may be provided with suture fixation holes or a suture coupling may be positioned over the shaft so as to extend between the projections of the head.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2017Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Nicolas Bouduban, Patrick Burki, Urs Hulliger, Philippe Gedet, Beat Lechmann, Wamis Singhatat, Scott Larsen
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Publication number: 20210369262Abstract: A suture anchor method including a suture anchor and a suture anchor drive. The suture anchor is positionable on a rod of the suture anchor drive. The rod defines an awl for forming a hole in a bone. The suture anchor drive further has an impactor for moving the suture anchor along the rod between a retracted position and an advanced position so as to implant the suture anchor in the bone with the awl positioned in the bone.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Nicolas Bouduban, Patrick Burki, Beat Lechmann, Philippe Gedet
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Publication number: 20210290217Abstract: The invention relates to a bone anchor element for inserting into a bone and/or fixing tissue to the bone, wherein the bone anchor element has in a longitudinal direction a proximal end, a proximal section, a distal section and a distal end, and the proximal section has on the outside a contoured indentation to prevent the bone anchor element inserted into the bone from being pulled out and on the inside a continuous hollow space in the longitudinal direction having a proximal opening and a distal opening, and the distal section is formed in a flattened, plate-shaped manner having a plate plane, wherein the bone anchor element has at least one transverse through-hole for receiving a suture material, and the distal section has in the longitudinal direction to the distal end a first transverse through-hole through the plate plane, wherein the first transverse through-hole is connected to the continuous hollow space of the proximal section via the distal opening, and subsequently has a second transverse through-Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Hannes Biedermann, Daniel Fluri, Nicolas Bouduban
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Patent number: 11033259Abstract: A suture anchor method including a suture anchor and a suture anchor drive. The suture anchor is positionable on a rod of the suture anchor drive. The rod defines an awl for forming a hole in a bone. The suture anchor drive further has an impactor for moving the suture anchor along the rod between a retracted position and an advanced position so as to implant the suture anchor in the bone with the awl positioned in the bone.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Nicolas Bouduban, Patrick Burki, Beat Lechmann, Philippe Gedet
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Patent number: 10849611Abstract: A soft tissue fixation assembly includes a plurality of deformable bone anchors and a suture that is configured to fixedly attach to each of the bone anchors. One or more of the bone anchors can be inserted into a bone, and one or more of the bone anchors can be inserted through soft tissue and into the bone. The suture can be inserted through the bone anchors, and energy can be applied to the anchors, thereby causing a deformable material of the bone anchors to deform, thereby capturing the strand of suture in the bone anchor. The strand of suture can be placed in tension, and can extend over the soft tissue so as to retain the soft tissue in contact with the bone.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Patrick Burki, Nicolas Bouduban, Dieter Schmidli
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Publication number: 20200178947Abstract: An insertion instrument is configured to eject at least one anchor body into respective target locations, and subsequently apply a predetermined tensile force at least one actuation member of the at least one anchor member so as to actuate the at least one anchor body from a first configuration to a second expanded configuration. The insertion instrument can include a tension assembly that applies the predetermined tensile force to the at least one actuation member. The predetermined tensile force can be defined by a distance of travel, a predetermined failure force of a fuse, or a combination of distance of travel and a predetermined failure force of a fuse.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2020Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Ernie Corrao, Ron George Litke, JR., Wamis Singhatat, Scott Larsen, Stephen Joseph Snyder, Nicolas Bouduban, Robert L. Richards
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Patent number: 10595839Abstract: An insertion instrument is configured to eject at least one anchor body into respective target locations, and subsequently apply a predetermined tensile force at least one actuation member of the at least one anchor member so as to actuate the at least one anchor body from a first configuration to a second expanded configuration. The insertion instrument can include a tension assembly that applies the predetermined tensile force to the at least one actuation member. The predetermined tensile force can be defined by a distance of travel, a predetermined failure force of a fuse, or a combination of distance of travel and a predetermined failure force of a fuse.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2017Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Ernie Corrao, Ron George Litke, Jr., Wamis Singhatat, Scott Larsen, Stephen Joseph Snyder, Nicolas Bouduban, Robert L. Richards
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Patent number: 10517613Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods are generally provided for guiding surgical devices into a desired location and orientation in a bone. In general, the devices can include an elongate guide, a sleeve having an inner lumen therethrough for seating the guide, and a locking mechanism configured to lock a position of the guide with respect to the sleeve. The guide can have a distal, bone-engaging portion that can be laterally offset from an intermediate portion of the guide by a predetermined distance and that can extend distally beyond the sleeve to contact a bony structure. The guide can thus orient and stabilize the sleeve at the predetermined distance from the bony structure to provide for the delivery of one or more surgical devices through the sleeve and into the bone at a desired location and orientation, without requiring a surgeon to actually view the surgical site.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: MEDOS INTERNATIONAL SARLInventors: Nicolas Bouduban, Patrick Burki
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Patent number: 10463471Abstract: Methods and devices for positioning and securing ligament grafts are provided. In general, the devices and methods utilize an implant having a particular outer surface profile and a bone tunnel having a complementary profile to provide a form fit between the implant and bone that utilizes friction to position and secure a ligament graft within the bone. Such an implant can be used in conjunction with a variety of ligament grafts, including hamstring ligament grafts. In addition, an “outside in” approach can be utilized with the implant to minimize the risk of damaging adjacent tissue during an operation and provide enhanced surgeon control. The devices and methods can be utilized in connection with repairing or replacing ligaments in a variety of joints, but can in some embodiments have particular utility in cruciate ligament reconstruction procedures.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2014Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: MEDOS INTERNATIONAL SARLInventors: Nicolas Bouduban, Patrick Burki, Philippe Gedet, Beat Lechmann
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Publication number: 20190321058Abstract: Systems and methods for preparing a bone for a surgical procedure are provided. In general, the described techniques use a surgical guide device including a cannula having first and second parallel elongate channels adjacent to one another, and first and second elongate sleeves configured to be removably and replaceably received in the first and second channels, respectively. The first sleeve has a plurality of openings formed therein, each being in communication with a respective wire-receiving lumen extending through the first sleeve. Each of the openings defines a different offset distance between the wire-receiving lumen in communication with that opening and a wire-receiving lumen extending through the second sleeve. The surgical device can be manipulated so as to define positions of first and second openings in a bone, such as a glenoid or other bone, to receive bone screws or other elements for attaching a bone graft to the bone.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Applicant: Synthes GmbHInventors: Nicolas Bouduban, Patrick Burki, Laurent Lafosse
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Patent number: 10335214Abstract: A bone fixation element comprises a shaft extending substantially along a longitudinal axis of the fixation element in combination with a head including a plurality of fixation element openings distributed about a perimeter thereof. Each of the fixation element openings extends through the head from a proximal surface thereof to a distal surface of the head. Each of the fixation element openings extends through the head along an opening axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2010Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Andreas Appenzeller, Tom Overes, Robert Frigg, Nicolas Bouduban, Silas Zurschmiede, Simon Stucki
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Patent number: 10327789Abstract: Systems and methods for preparing a bone for a surgical procedure are provided. In general, the described techniques use a surgical guide device including a cannula having first and second parallel elongate channels adjacent to one another, and first and second elongate sleeves configured to be removably and replaceably received in the first and second channels, respectively. The first sleeve has a plurality of openings formed therein, each being in communication with a respective wire-receiving lumen extending through the first sleeve. Each of the openings defines a different offset distance between the wire-receiving lumen in communication with that opening and a wire-receiving lumen extending through the second sleeve. The surgical device can be manipulated so as to define positions of first and second openings in a bone, such as a glenoid or other bone, to receive bone screws or other elements for attaching a bone graft to the bone.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2015Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Medos International SarlInventors: Nicolas Bouduban, Patrick Burki, Laurent Lafosse
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Patent number: 10285743Abstract: A surgical implant for fixing a soft tissue to a bone comprising a staple and a plate. The staple and the plate are positionable on an instrument in such a way that the plate may be manipulated with the instrument to hold the soft tissue against the bone and in such a way that the staple is fixable to the bone with the plate positioned between a bridge of the staple and the soft tissue when legs of the staple are driven through the plate and into the bone.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: CC InnovationInventors: Nicolas Bouduban, Beat Lechmann, Patrick Burki, Christian Fink
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Patent number: 10265106Abstract: A system for locking an intramedullary nail to a bone includes a first plate sized and shaped to be inserted through a channel of an intramedullary nail and dimensioned to prevent its passing through a locking hole of the intramedullary nail and a second plate sized and shaped to be positioned along a portion of an exterior of a hole drilled in the bone and dimensioned to prevent its passing through the hole drilled in the bone along with a connector couplable to the first and second plates and slidable through the channel of the intramedullary nail to extend through the locking hole from an interior of the channel to an exterior of a bone in which the intramedullary nail has been inserted.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2014Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Nicolas Bouduban, Patrick Burki, Reto Nardini
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Publication number: 20190029666Abstract: A suture anchor method including a suture anchor and a suture anchor drive. The suture anchor is positionable on a rod of the suture anchor drive. The rod defines an awl for forming a hole in a bone. The suture anchor drive further has an impactor for moving the suture anchor along the rod between a retracted position and an advanced position so as to implant the suture anchor in the bone with the awl positioned in the bone.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Nicolas Bouduban, Patrick Burki, Beat Lechmann, Philippe Gedet
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Patent number: 10130479Abstract: A method and apparatus for replacing damaged meniscal tissue includes a meniscus implant including a porous body having a plurality of interconnected open micro-pores and one or more open cavities for receiving meniscal tissue. The interconnected micro-pores are arranged to allow fluid to flow into the porous body and are in fluid communication with the one or more open cavities.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Philippe Gedet, Beat Lechmann, Nicolas Bouduban