Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm William Micheal Hynes
  • Basket-like container for implanting bone tissue
    Patent number: 6447543
    Abstract: The basket-like container (1) contains a reception volume for bone tissue. After the filling in of the bone tissue the container is implanted. The reception volume is located within a wall (2) which is arranged about an axis (10). This peripheral wall consists of a grid, a fabric or a mesh. Transversely to the axis the wall enables an X-ray optical seeing through of the unfilled reception volume. The surface component, which is permeable by X-rays, amounts to at least 30%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Sulzer Orthopedics Ltd.
    Inventors: Armin Studer, Thomas Bollinger