Patents by Inventor Rene Vargas-Voracek

Rene Vargas-Voracek 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).

  • Methods and Compositions for Articular Repair
    Publication number: 20140303629
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for producing articular repair materials and for repairing an articular surface. In particular, methods for providing articular repair systems. Also provided are articular surface repair systems designed to replace a selected area cartilage, for example, and surgical tools for repairing articular surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Philipp Lang, Daniel Steines, Bijan Timsari, Konstantinos Tsougarakis, Rene Vargas-Voracek
  • Methods for the compensation of imaging technique in the processing of radiographic images
    Patent number: 8781191
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and devices for analyzing x-ray images. In particular, devices, methods and algorithms are provided that allow for the accurate and reliable evaluation of bone structure and macro-anatomical parameters from x-ray images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: ImaTx, Inc.
    Inventors: Philipp Lang, Daniel Steines, Siau-Way Liew, Rene Vargas-Voracek
  • Methods and Devices for Analysis of X-Ray Images
    Publication number: 20140140605
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and devices for evaluating bone conditions based on images. In particular, devices, methods and algorithms are provided that allow for the accurate and reliable evaluation of bone structure from x-ray images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: ImaTx, Inc.
    Inventors: Philipp Lang, Daniel Steines, Siau-Way Liew, Rene Vargas-Voracek, Claude Arnaud
  • System and Method of Predicting Future Fractures
    Publication number: 20140093149
    Abstract: Methods of predicting fracture risk of a patient include: obtaining an image of a bone of the patient; determining one or more bone structure parameters; predicting a fracture line with the bone structure parameter; predicting a fracture load at which a fracture will happen; estimating body habitus of the patient; calculating a peak impact force on the bone when the patient falls; and predicting a fracture risk by calculating the ratio between the peak impact force and the fracture load. Inventive methods also include determining the effect of a candidate agent on any subject's risk of fracture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: ImaTx, Inc.
    Inventors: Claude D. Arnaud, Philipp Lang, Siau-Way Liew, Daniel Steines, Rene Vargas-Voracek
  • Joint Arthroplasty Devices and Surgical Tools
    Publication number: 20140066935
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, compositions and tools for repairing articular surfaces repair materials and for repairing an articular surface. The articular surface repairs are customizable or highly selectable by patient and geared toward providing optimal fit and function. The surgical tools are designed to be customizable or highly selectable by patient to increase the speed, accuracy and simplicity of performing total or partial arthroplasty.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: CONFORMIS, INC.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fitz, Philipp Lang, Daniel Steines, Konstantinos Tsougarakis, Rene Vargas-Voracek
  • Joint Arthroplasty Devices and Surgical Tools
    Publication number: 20140058397
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, compositions and tools for repairing articular surfaces repair materials and for repairing an articular surface. The articular surface repairs are customizable or highly selectable by patient and geared toward providing optimal fit and function. The surgical tools are designed to be customizable or highly selectable by patient to increase the speed, accuracy and simplicity of performing total or partial arthroplasty.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: ConforMIS, Inc.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fitz, Philipp Lang, Daniel Steines, Konstantinos Tsougarakis, Rene Vargas-Voracek
  • Joint Arthroplasty Devices and Surgical Tools
    Publication number: 20140058396
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, compositions and tools for repairing articular surfaces repair materials and for repairing an articular surface. The articular surface repairs are customizable or highly selectable by patient and geared toward providing optimal fit and function. The surgical tools are designed to be customizable or highly selectable by patient to increase the speed, accuracy and simplicity of performing total or partial arthroplasty.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: CONFORMIS, INC.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fitz, Philipp Lang, Daniel Steines, Konstantinos Tsougarakis, Rene Vargas-Voracek
  • Surgical tools for arthroplasty
    Patent number: 8657827
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, compositions and tools for repairing articular surfaces repair materials and for repairing an articular surface. The articular surface repairs are customizable or highly selectable by patient and geared toward providing optimal fit and function. The surgical tools are designed to be customizable or highly selectable by patient to increase the speed, accuracy and simplicity of performing total or partial arthroplasty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: ConforMIS, Inc.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fitz, Philipp Lang, Raymond A. Bojarski, Daniel Steines, Albert G. Burdulis, Jr., Rene Vargas-Voracek
  • Joint arthroplasty devices and surgical tools
    Patent number: 8641716
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, compositions and tools for repairing articular surfaces repair materials and for repairing an articular surface. The articular surface repairs are customizable or highly selectable by patient and geared toward providing optimal fit and function. The surgical tools are designed to be customizable or highly selectable by patient to increase the speed, accuracy and simplicity of performing total or partial arthroplasty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: ConforMIS, Inc.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fitz, Philipp Lang, Daniel Steines, Konstantinos Tsougarakis, Rene Vargas-Voracek
  • Patient Selectable Knee Arthroplasty Devices
    Publication number: 20140029814
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and devices for repairing articular surfaces in a knee joint. The articular surface repairs are customizable or highly selectable for each patient and geared toward providing optimal fit and function. Kits are also provided to enable customized repairs to be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: ConforMIS, Inc.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fitz, Philipp Lang, Daniel Steines, Konstantinos Tsougarakis, Rene Vargas-Voracek, Hacene Bouadi, Cecily Anne Snyder
  • Methods and devices for evaluating and treating a bone condition based on x-ray image analysis
    Patent number: 8639009
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods and devices for analyzing x-ray images. Furthermore, bone condition of a subject can be evaluated by analyzing x-ray images of the subject's bone from a sliding region of interest (ROI), e.g., an ROI that is moved on a pixel-by-pixel basis on the image, and therapies can then be selected or devised for the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: ImaTx, Inc.
    Inventors: Philipp Lang, Daniel Steines, Siau-Way Liew, Rene Vargas-Voracek, Claude Arnaud
  • Joint arthroplasty devices and surgical tools
    Patent number: 8617172
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, compositions and tools for repairing articular surfaces repair materials and for repairing an articular surface. The articular surface repairs are customizable or highly selectable by patient and geared toward providing optimal fit and function. The surgical tools are designed to be customizable or highly selectable by patient to increase the speed, accuracy and simplicity of performing total or partial arthroplasty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: ConforMIS, Inc.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fitz, Philipp Lang, Daniel Steines, Konstantinos Tsougarakis, Rene Vargas-Voracek
  • System and method of predicting future fractures
    Patent number: 8600124
    Abstract: Methods of predicting fracture risk of a patient include: obtaining an image of a bone of the patient; determining one or more bone structure parameters; predicting a fracture line with the bone structure parameter; predicting a fracture load at which a fracture will happen; estimating body habitus of the patient; calculating a peak impact force on the bone when the patient falls; and predicting a fracture risk by calculating the ratio between the peak impact force and the fracture load. Inventive methods also includes determining the effect of a candidate agent on any subject's risk of fracture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: ImaTx, Inc.
    Inventors: Claude Donald Arnaud, Philipp Lang, Siau-Way Liew, Daniel Steines, Rene Vargas-Voracek
  • Calibration devices and methods of use thereof
    Patent number: 8588365
    Abstract: The present invention relates to calibration devices and to methods of using these devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: ImaTx, Inc.
    Inventors: Philipp Lang, Siau-Way Liew, Rene Vargas-Voracek
  • Surgical tools for arthroplasty
    Patent number: 8551099
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, compositions and tools for repairing articular surfaces repair materials and for repairing an articular surface. The articular surface repairs are customizable or highly selectable by patient and geared toward providing optimal fit and function. The surgical tools are designed to be customizable or highly selectable by patient to increase the speed, accuracy and simplicity of performing total or partial arthroplasty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: ConforMIS, Inc.
    Inventors: Philipp Lang, Wolfgang Fitz, Raymond A. Bojarski, Daniel Steines, Albert G. Burdulis, Jr., Rene Vargas-Voracek
  • Patient selectable knee arthroplasty devices
    Patent number: 8545569
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and devices for repairing articular surfaces in a knee joint. The articular surface repairs are customizable or highly selectable for each patient and geared toward providing optimal fit and function. Kits are also provided to enable customized repairs to be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: ConforMIS, Inc.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fitz, Philipp Lang, Daniel Steines, Konstantinos Tsougarakis, Rene Vargas-Voracek, Hacene Bouadi, Cecily Anne Snyder
  • Joint arthroplasty devices and surgical tools
    Patent number: 8460304
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, compositions and tools for repairing articular surfaces repair materials and for repairing an articular surface. The articular surface repairs are customizable or highly selectable by patient and geared toward providing optimal fit and function. The surgical tools are designed to be customizable or highly selectable by patient to increase the speed, accuracy and simplicity of performing total or partial arthroplasty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: ConforMIS, Inc.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fitz, Philipp Lang, Daniel Steines, Konstantinos Tsougarakis, Rene Vargas-Voracek
  • Joint arthroplasty devices and surgical tools
    Patent number: 8377129
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, compositions and tools for repairing articular surfaces repair materials and for repairing an articular surface. The articular surface repairs are customizable or highly selectable by patient and geared toward providing optimal fit and function. The surgical tools are designed to be customizable or highly selectable by patient to increase the speed, accuracy and simplicity of performing total or partial arthroplasty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: ConforMIS, Inc.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fitz, Philipp Lang, Daniel Steines, Konstantinos Tsougarakis, Rene Vargas-Voracek
  • METHODS FOR THE COMPENSATION OF IMAGING TECHNIQUE IN THE PROCESSING OF RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGES
    Publication number: 20130039592
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and devices for analyzing x-ray images. In particular, devices, methods and algorithms are provided that allow for the accurate and reliable evaluation of bone structure and macro-anatomical parameters from x-ray images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: IMATX, INC.
    Inventors: Philipp Lang, Daniel Steines, Siau-Way Liew, Rene Vargas-Voracek
  • Surgical tools facilitating increased accuracy, speed and simplicity in performing joint arthroplasty
    Patent number: 8366771
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are tools for repairing articular surfaces repair materials and for repairing an articular surface. The surgical tools are designed to be customizable or highly selectable by patient to increase the speed, accuracy and simplicity of performing total or partial arthroplasty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: ConforMIS, Inc.
    Inventors: Albert G. Burdulis, Jr., Wolfgang Fitz, Rene Vargas-Voracek, Philipp Lang, Daniel Steines, Konstantinos Tsougarakis