Patents Assigned to MedShape Inc.
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Patent number: 11911026Abstract: According to particular embodiments, the present staple includes a low-profile bridge and has the capacity for high sustained compression. In some embodiments, the staple includes a bridge with a continuous cross-section, and one or more pairs of legs with teeth cut therein, the inner legs and outer legs each including an angle of about 16 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: MEDSHAPE, INC.Inventors: Jeremy Webster Blair, Courtney Lynne Kline
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Patent number: 11911025Abstract: According to particular embodiments, the present staple includes a low-profile bridge and has the capacity for high sustained compression. In some embodiments, the staple includes a bridge with a continuous cross-section, legs with teeth cut therein (e.g., opposed to protruding from, as discussed herein), and legs including an angle of about 24 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: MEDSHAPE, INC.Inventors: Jeremy Webster Blair, Jack Cabell Griffis, III
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Patent number: 11744625Abstract: A compression device may include, but is not limited to, a threaded body, a sliding element, and a compression element connecting the threaded body and the sliding element. According to one embodiment, upon implantation, the threaded body contacts a first bony fragment and the sliding element contacts to a second bony fragment. In at least one embodiment, upon being engaged, the compression element applies sustained tension to the sliding element and opposing tension to the threaded body, thereby compressing the first bony fragment and the second bony fragment along a plane of contact promoting healing.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: MEDSHAPE, INC.Inventors: Ryan Walter O'Flaherty, Jeremy Webster Blair, Donald Kenneth Griffin, II
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Patent number: 11291488Abstract: A compression device may include, but is not limited to, a threaded body, a sliding element, and a compression element connecting the threaded body and the sliding element. According to one embodiment, upon implantation, the threaded body contacts a first bony fragment and the sliding element contacts to a second bony fragment. In at least one embodiment, upon being engaged, the compression element applies sustained tension to the sliding element and opposing tension to the threaded body, thereby compressing the first bony fragment and the second bony fragment along a plane of contact promoting healing.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: MEDSHAPE, INC.Inventors: Ryan Walter O'Flaherty, Jeremy Webster Blair, Donald Kenneth Griffin, II
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Patent number: 11116499Abstract: According to particular embodiments, the present staple includes a low-profile bridge and has the capacity for high sustained compression. In some embodiments, the staple includes a bridge with a continuous cross-section, and one or more pairs of legs with teeth cut therein, the inner legs and outer legs each including an angle of about 16 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: MEDSHAPE, INC.Inventors: Jeremy Webster Blair, Courtney Lynne Kline
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Patent number: 11020110Abstract: According to particular embodiments, the present staple includes a low-profile bridge and has the capacity for high sustained compression. In some embodiments, the staple includes a bridge with a continuous cross-section, legs with teeth cut therein (e.g., opposed to protruding from, as discussed herein), and legs including an angle of about 24 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: MEDSHAPE, INC.Inventors: Jeremy Webster Blair, Jack Cabell Griffis, III
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Patent number: 10582998Abstract: The disclosure describes a method including manufacturing a shape memory polymer fabric with a collection of shape memory polymer fibers such that the resulting shape memory polymer fabric has a glass transition temperature of greater than 50 degrees centigrade. The method further includes training the shape memory polymer fabric with a pre-determined percentage of strain between an expanded shape and a contracted shape. The method further includes preparing a portion of the shape memory polymer fabric into a shape that is sized to cover two portions of a ruptured soft tissue of an animal with a mean body temperature below 40 degrees centigrade while the fabric has the predetermined percentage of strain stored in the expanded shape.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2012Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: MEDSHAPE, INC.Inventors: David Safranski, Kathryn Smith, Jack C. Griffis, III
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Patent number: 10537369Abstract: Provided herein are bone anchor devices including embodiments using adaptive materials, including shape memory materials such as shape memory alloys. Embodiments using shape memory alloys may use super-elastic properties of shape memory alloys to provide forces and deflections that actuate bone anchoring element(s) within bones. Embodiments of bone anchoring elements may be created that actuate with respect to one or more pivot point(s), with the bone anchoring elements on an opposite side of the pivot point from the actuating member composed of, for example, shape memory material. The pivot point(s) of a bone anchor device may be positioned in a central portion of the bone anchor device. The central portion of the bone anchor device may span between two pieces of bone or two separate bones (e.g., two bones of a joint) into which bone anchoring elements may be embedded and fixed.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: MEDSHAPE, INC.Inventors: Jeremy Blair, Clay Williams
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Patent number: 10307156Abstract: According to particular embodiments, the present staple includes a low-profile bridge and has the capacity for high sustained compression. In some embodiments, the staple includes a bridge with a continuous cross-section, legs with teeth cut therein (e.g., opposed to protruding from, as discussed herein), and legs including an angle of about 24 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2018Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: MEDSHAPE, INC.Inventors: Jeremy Webster Blair, Jack Cabell Griffis, III
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Patent number: 8808385Abstract: Provided herein are shape memory polymer spinal cages including polymers with intended deployment at temperatures far below the onset of the glassy transition of the shape memory polymer. The described shape memory polymer spinal cages are adapted to be deployed by mechanical activation rather than thermal activation or activation by other stimuli. Thus, the shape memory polymers used herein are configured to have transition temperatures far above their temperatures of intended use, thereby requiring mechanical activation to recover stored strains.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2013Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: MedShape, Inc.Inventors: Kathryn Smith, Kenneth A. Gall, Kenneth Dupont
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Publication number: 20130310835Abstract: Intramedullary medical devices (e.g., intramedullary nails) and methods for their use and manufacture are described herein. The intramedullary medical devices described herein may provide sustained compressive forces across a bone fusion site despite bone resorption processes. Through various embodiments, the intramedullary medical devices described herein may provide non-linear force curves relative to displacement. Intramedullary medical devices are described with multiple elements made of different materials. Examples of intramedullary medical devices are described with shape memory alloys.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: MedShape Inc.Inventors: Kenneth A. Gall, Kurt Jacobus, Heidi K. Waldman, Douglas Pacaccio, Mark Harrold
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Publication number: 20130237632Abstract: Methods and apparatus described herein may utilize activation of an SMP material to install medical devices with respect to a surgical site. Activation of the SMP material may be performed with the use of a triggering force and/or a constraint applied to the SMP material. Activation using a triggering force and/or a constraint may be used to create varied activation rates in an SMP material and varying speeds and times of activation to occur in shape memory polymers in devices. The disclosure also describes devices using wedge elements for activation of shape memory response in the SMP material.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: MedShape, Inc.Inventor: Kenneth A. Gall
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Patent number: 8491583Abstract: Intramedullary medical devices (e.g., intramedullary nails) and methods for their use and manufacture are described herein. The intramedullary medical devices described herein may provide sustained compressive forces across a bone fusion site despite bone resorption processes. Through various embodiments, the intramedullary medical devices described herein may provide non-linear force curves relative to displacement. Intramedullary medical devices are described with multiple elements made of different materials. Examples of intramedullary medical devices are described with shape memory alloys.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2008Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: MedShape, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth A. Gall, Kurt Jacobus, Heidi K. Waldman, Douglas Pacaccio, Mark Harrold
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Patent number: D701958Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2012Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: MedShape, Inc.Inventors: Jack C. Griffis, III, Kenneth A. Gall, Kathryn Smith, Stephen Lee Laffoon, Annie E. Macedo, Kadija N. McAnuff, Mary K. Pitz
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Patent number: D895113Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: MEDSHAPE, INC.Inventors: Jeremy Webster Blair, Jack Cabell Griffis, III
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Patent number: D957636Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: MEDSHAPE, INC.Inventors: Jeremy Webster Blair, Courtney Lynne Kline
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Patent number: D1009269Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: MEDSHAPE, INC.Inventors: Jeremy Webster Blair, Courtney Lynne Kline
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Patent number: D1019954Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: MEDSHAPE, INC.Inventors: Ryan Walter O'Flaherty, Jeremy Webster Blair, Donald Kenneth Griffin, II
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Patent number: D1024332Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: MEDSHAPE, INC.Inventors: Jeremy Webster Blair, Jack Cabell Griffis
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Patent number: D1025358Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: MEDSHAPE, INC.Inventors: Jeremy Webster Blair, Courtney Lynne Kline