Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Perry E. Van Over
  • Apparatus and method for fixation of osteoporotic bone
    Patent number: 6770079
    Abstract: A Novel surgical apparatus and method of use in osteoplasty and other methods of injecting materials into a subject for medical purposes. The present invention particularly relates to the surgical treatment of traumatic, pathogenic, or osteoporotic bone conditions of the human and other animal body systems and more particularly, to a novel apparatus and method for injection of a material into a lesion of a vertebral body or other bony structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: American Osteomedix, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohit Bhatnagar, Eric Major
  • System and method for reinforcing bone in preparation for screw implantation
    Patent number: 6752809
    Abstract: A system and method for reinforcing bone in preparation for screw implantation. One system embodiment comprises a threaded and centrally bored cannula with a perforated distal end, a cannula applicator frictionally fitting within the central bore, a plunger translating within the central bore (the plunger having a internal longitudinal guide wire), bone cement, and a cannulated drill bit. One method embodiment comprises drilling and tapping a hole in a vertebral body, inserting the applicator into the central bore, screwing the cannula into the tapped hole by rotating the applicator, removing the applicator, injecting the bone cement into the central bore, distributing the bone cement out the holes in the distal end of the cannula and into the surrounding bone using the plunger, letting the bone cement harden, and drilling out the plunger using the cannulated drill following the guide wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: K2 Medical, LLC
    Inventor: Josef E. Gorek
  • Food supplements containing polyphenols
    Patent number: 6642277
    Abstract: Disclosed is a plant-derived flavonol-containing dry composition suitable for human consumption, wherein at least 25% of the plant-derived material in the composition comprises polyphenols, together with uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: The Howard Foundation
    Inventors: Alan Norman Howard, Shaja Vijay Nigdikar, Jayshri Rajput-Williams, Norman Ross Williams
  • Solubilization of flavonols
    Patent number: 6569446
    Abstract: A method of increasing the solubility in water of a flavonol component of a flavonol-containing composition, the method including the steps of providing a flavonol-containing composition, providing an anthocyanin-containing composition and mixing the two compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: The Howard Foundation
    Inventor: Alan N. Howard
  • Compositions containing creatine and creatinine
    Patent number: 6524611
    Abstract: A composition for human consumption, comprising creatine and creatinine, the latter being in sufficient quantity to render creatine in an aqueous medium substantially stable, and a method of making the composition is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: The Howard Foundation
    Inventors: Alan N. Howard, Roger C. Harris