Patents Assigned to IMDS LLC
  • Publication number: 20170056200
    Abstract: Interbody spacers are expandable horizontally and vertically by an application of axial force, and lockable in an expanded configuration. The spacers include support members interconnected to end bodies by pivotable link members. The spacers are introduced between vertebral bodies in a compressed configuration and expanded to fill the intervertebral space and provide support and selective lordotic correction. Graft material may be introduced into the expanded spacer. Provisional and/or supplementary locking means lock the spacers in the expanded configuration. Embodiments of the spacers include symmetrically and asymmetrically configured spacers. Methods of expansion include symmetric expansion or asymmetric expansion along each of two directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: IMDS LLC
    Inventors: David Koch, Jason Glad
  • Patent number: 9549811
    Abstract: A system for single tunnel, double bundle anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction includes implant constructs and instruments. The implant constructs provide a combination of cortical fixation and bone tunnel aperture fixation. The implant constructs separate a graft into distinct bundles. The instruments are used to prepare shaped bone tunnels to receive the implant constructs and graft bundles. Methods for reconstructing the antero-medial and postero-lateral bundles of the anterior cruciate ligament may rely on single femoral and tibial tunnels and a single strand of graft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: IMDS LLC
    Inventor: Thomas H. Myers
  • Patent number: 9439768
    Abstract: A joint prosthesis system, specifically a shoulder prosthesis, for shoulder replacement, revision and repair. The implants provide fixation into the best bone available to a surgeon. The implants are used in a superior-inferior and anterior-posterior construct forming a type of cross or X-shape. The implants allow for interchangeability of the articulating component as well as rotational orientation. The systems will allow for augments to accommodate bone loss. The implants may allow for additional security using screws or anchors inserted into the scapula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignees: IMDS LLC, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Joseph P. Iannotti, Gerald Williams, Dinesh Koka, Michael Chad Hollis
  • Patent number: 9414927
    Abstract: A joint prosthesis system, specifically a shoulder prosthesis, for shoulder replacement, revision and repair. The implants provide fixation into the best bone available to a surgeon. The implants are used in a superior-inferior and anterior-posterior construct forming a type of cross or X-shape. The implants allow for interchangeability of the articulating component as well as rotational orientation. The systems will allow for augments to accommodate bone loss. The implants may allow for additional security using screws or anchors inserted into the scapula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignees: IMDS LLC, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Joseph Iannotti, Gerald Williams, Dinesh Koka, Michael Chad Hollis
  • Patent number: 9404525
    Abstract: An interlocking interface retains a screw head in a socket to prevent migration of the screw head out of the socket, or to lock the screw head in the socket. The interlocking interface may retain or lock the screw at various polyaxial angles with respect to the socket. The screw head includes external corrugations. The socket includes an internal corrugated structure which interlocks with the external corrugations of the screw head when the screw is at various polyaxial angles with respect to the socket. A counterbore may be adjacent either or both ends of the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: IMDS LLC
    Inventor: Jeffery D. Arnett
  • Publication number: 20160199194
    Abstract: Systems for interbody fusion of adjacent bone portions may include an expanding implant and related instruments. An expanding implant may be formed as a linkage which is movable between a compact configuration and an expanded configuration. A shaft of the implant may increase and decrease in length to move between the compact and expanded configurations, and an implant width perpendicular to the length may be increased in the expanded configuration. The implant width may increase more in a first direction than a second direction opposite the first direction. An inserter instrument may releasably grasp the spacer and transform the implant between the compact and expanded configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: IMDS LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Slater, Justin Hyer, Cortny Robison, Joshua A. Butters, Daniel J. Triplett
  • Patent number: 9308099
    Abstract: Systems for interbody fusion of adjacent bone portions may include an expanding implant and related instruments. An expanding implant may be formed as a linkage which is movable between a compact configuration and an expanded configuration. A shaft of the implant may increase and decrease in length to move between the compact and expanded configurations, and an implant width perpendicular to the length may be increased in the expanded configuration. The implant width may increase more in a first direction than a second direction opposite the first direction. An inserter instrument may releasably grasp the spacer and transform the implant between the compact and expanded configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: IMDS LLC
    Inventors: Daniel J. Triplett, Joshua A. Butters, Nicholas Slater, Cortny Robison
  • Patent number: 9265498
    Abstract: A line lock includes a body at least partially bounding two passageways that cooperate to receive a locking portion of a line such as a suture in such a manner that the locking portion can only be drawn through the passageways along one direction. A second suture locking portion may also be received by the passageways, or by one of the two passageways in combination with a third passageway. The body may have an elongated, compact shape that is easily implantable in the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: IMDS LLC
    Inventors: T. Wade Fallin, M. Mary Sinnott
  • Patent number: 9216079
    Abstract: A system for single tunnel, double bundle anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction includes implant constructs and instruments. The implant constructs provide a combination of cortical fixation and bone tunnel aperture fixation. The implant constructs separate a graft into distinct bundles. The instruments are used to prepare shaped bone tunnels to receive the implant constructs and graft bundles. Methods for reconstructing the antero-medial and postero-lateral bundles of the anterior cruciate ligament may rely on single femoral and tibial tunnels and a single strand of graft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignees: IMDS LLC
    Inventor: Thomas H. Myers
  • Patent number: 9198675
    Abstract: A surgical rasping and/or shaving system functions in multiple orthopedic applications, including but not limited to shoulder, knee, hip, wrist, ankle, spinal, or other joint procedures. The system may comprise a tissue removal member with a rasping and/or shaving head which may be low profile and offer a flat cutting/rasping/shaving surface, or with a cutting head with at least one cutting edge. The tissue removal member is configured to be driven by an attached hub that translates a rotational movement into a reciprocating motion. Suction for removal of bone fragments or other tissues is provided through an opening spaced apart from or adjacent to the rasping surface. A radiofrequency ablation (RF) electrode may be carried on the system to provide ablation or coagulation of soft tissues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignees: IMDS LLC
    Inventors: Keith J. Nelson, Daniel F. Justin, Douglas M. Lorang, Andrew R. Fauth, Daniel J. Triplett, Trevor K. Lewis, Gavin Sontag, Nathan D. Hansen, Karen E. Mohr, Joseph Q. Marietta, M. Mary Sinnott
  • Patent number: 9103367
    Abstract: An interlocking interface retains a screw head in a socket to prevent migration of the screw head out of the socket, or to lock the screw head in the socket. The interlocking interface may retain or lock the screw at various polyaxial angles with respect to the socket. The screw head includes external corrugations. The socket includes an internal corrugated structure which interlocks with the external corrugations of the screw head when the screw is at various polyaxial angles with respect to the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: IMDS LLC
    Inventor: Jeffery D. Arnett
  • Patent number: 9089365
    Abstract: Tissue fixation members interact with a housing to hold tissue relative to the housing and allow the orientation and position of the grasped tissue to be manipulated with improved efficacy. The tissue fixation members can be easily and quickly moved between deployed and retracted positions to reversibly grasp and release tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignees: IMDS LLC, Mikenclaud LLC
    Inventors: Michael Jones, Nathan O. Plowman, Nathan Erickson, Andrew R. Fauth, Daniel J. Triplett, Darin Ewer, Jason M. Glad
  • Patent number: 9033986
    Abstract: A surgical rasping system functional in multiple orthopedic applications, including but not limited to shoulder, knee, hip, wrist, ankle, spinal, or other joint procedures. The system may comprise a tissue removal member with a rasping head which may be low profile and offer a flat cutting/rasping surface, or with a cutting head with at least one cutting edge. The tissue removal member is configured to be driven by an attached hub that translates a rotational movement into a reciprocating motion. Suction for removal of bone fragments or other tissues is provided through an opening spaced apart from or adjacent to the rasping surface. A radiofrequency ablation (RF) electrode may be carried on the rasping system to provide ablation or coagulation of soft tissues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignees: IMDS, LLC
    Inventors: Keith J. Nelson, Nathan D. Hansen, Trevor K. Lewis, Joseph Q. Marietta, M. Mary Sinnott
  • Patent number: 9005203
    Abstract: A surgical instrument system functional in multiple orthopedic applications, including but not limited to shoulder, knee, hip, wrist, ankle, spinal, or other joint procedures. The system comprises a cutting head which includes jaw members which may be urged between open and closed positions to providing a biting or chewing action for removal of targeted tissues. The instrument system is configured to be driven by an attached hub that translates a rotational movement into a reciprocating motion to open and close the jaw members. Suction for removal of bone fragments or other tissues is provided through a suction opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignees: IMDS, LLC
    Inventors: Keith J. Nelson, Andrew R. Fauth, Trevor K. Lewis, Daniel J. Triplett
  • Patent number: 8986287
    Abstract: Instrument handles are adjustable relative to an end effector of the instrument. The handles may be releasably locked in selected positions and/or orientations relative to the end effector. When the lock is released, the handles may be moved to a different position and/or orientation relative to the end effector, and locked in place. The handles may pivot relative to the end effector around one or more joints. The handles may pivot about an axis of a hinge joint or a point of a ball and socket joint. The axis of the hinge joint may be aligned parallel or perpendicular to a center longitudinal axis of the end effector, or of a shaft between the handles and the end effector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignees: IMDS LLC
    Inventors: Adrian E. Park, Brady R. Shirley, Daniel J. Triplett, Darin Ewer