Patents Assigned to DuPuy Synthes Products, LLC
  • Publication number: 20140012380
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a spinal implant. The spinal implant may be used for lateral insertion into an intervertebral disc space. For example, the spinal implant may include a spacer body to which a plate is fixed. The intervertebral spacer body may include a pair of opposite sides having a pyramid-shaped teeth to fuse to bone. The plate defines at least one upper and lower borehole that each receives a screw. Each screw attaches the plate to a vertebral body between which the intervertebral spacer body is inserted. The boreholes may include locking threads that are adapted to lock the screws into place by engaging complementary locking threads of head of the screw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: DuPuy Synthes Products, LLC
    Inventors: Lawton Laurence, Sean Saidha, Michael White, Khawar Mohammad Siddique, Brian Regis Perri
  • Patent number: 8556927
    Abstract: The embolic coil includes a microcoil and an elongated wire electrically connected to the microcoil for accelerating embolization of an aneurysm into which the embolic coil is placed. The microcoil is formed of a first metallic material having a first reduction potential, and the elongated wire is formed of a second metallic material having a second reduction potential lower than the first reduction potential of the first metallic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: DuPuy Synthes Products, LLC
    Inventor: Houdin Dehnad