Patents Assigned to Osteonics Corp.
  • Set of glenoid components for a shoulder prosthesis
    Patent number: 11304815
    Abstract: This set comprises glenoid components that each include a body defining, on two of its opposite faces, respectively, a joint surface, intended to cooperate with a humeral head, and a bearing surface bearing against the socket of a shoulder blade. In this set, the glenoid components are provided in several different sizes, respectively defined by the dimensions of the joint surface of their body. At least two glenoid components of which the bearing surfaces respectively have different dimensional geometries are provided so as to allow the surgeon to improve the durability of the mechanical cooperation between the implanted component and the operated socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Gilles Walch, Pascal Boileau, Christophe Levigne, Lucile Ferrand, Pierric Deransart
  • Globalized total knee instrumentation
    Patent number: 11304706
    Abstract: A varus-valgus alignment instrument includes a body having a bone contact surface for contacting a distal femur and an opening extending through the body and bone contact surface. The opening is sized to receive an elongate shaft therein. An alignment member is moveably attached to the body and has first and second openings therethrough. The first and second openings are sized to receive the elongate shaft and are interchangeably positioned in alignment with the opening of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.
    Inventor: Carlos E. Collazo
  • Suture anchor implantation instrumentation system
    Patent number: 11304690
    Abstract: A system for implanting an anchor into bone, the system comprising a curved cannulated guide for percutaneous insertion, having a proximal end and a distal end; a flexible drill insertable through the curved guide from the proximal end to the distal end, the flexible drill having a shaft having a flexible portion; and a flexible inserter for inserting a suture anchor into a bore at the anatomical site formed by the flexible drill, the flexible inserter having a shaft having a flexible portion, wherein the flexible portions of both the flexible drill and flexible inserter include a series of discrete, interlocking segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.
    Inventors: Bryan Patrick Howard, Chad Lewis, M. Mary Sinnott
  • GUIDES AND INSTRUMENTS FOR IMPROVING ACCURACY OF GLENOID IMPLANT PLACEMENT
    Publication number: 20220110644
    Abstract: A patient specific shoulder guide is provided that includes a hub and a plurality of peripheral members. Each of the peripheral members has a peripheral member height dimension between the patient specific contact surface and a side of the peripheral member opposite the patient specific contact surface. At least one of the peripheral members is a low profile peripheral member in which the peripheral height dimension is less than the peripheral height dimension of at least one other of the peripheral members or is less than the hub height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Shawn M. Gargac, Nicolas R. Neichel, Benoit Le Negaret
  • High fatigue strength porous structure
    Patent number: 11298747
    Abstract: A porous apparatus includes a first layer and a second layer. The second layer has a plurality of struts. At least some of the struts define a porous geometry defining a plurality of faces, at least one of the plurality of the faces at least partially confronting the first layer. Each face is bounded by intersecting struts at vertices. Less than all of the vertices of each face of the porous geometry at least partially confronting the first layer are connected by a strut to the first layer. A process of producing the at least partially porous structure includes depositing and scanning metal powder layers. At least some of the scanned metal powder layers form either one or both of a portion of a first section of the structure and a portion of a second section of the structure formed by at least the struts defining the porous geometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.
    Inventors: Robert W. Klein, Lewis Mullen, Joseph Robinson
  • Augmented glenoid design
    Patent number: 11285009
    Abstract: A glenoid implant may include an articulating surface, a bone contacting surface opposite the articulating surface, and at least one anchor. The bone contacting surface may include a first portion with a first convexity configured to contact a first portion of the glenoid and a second portion with a second convexity configured to contact a second portion of the glenoid. The first convexity may be different than the second convexity. The implant may include a bearing component defining the articulating surface and an augment component defining at least a portion of the bone contacting surface. Anchors or protrusions may extend from the bone contacting surface. The anchors may include a substantially planar surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.
    Inventor: Lance N. Terrill
  • Systems for soft tissue repair
    Patent number: 11284879
    Abstract: A tissue repair apparatus includes a housing, a rotatable shaft at least partially disposed within the housing, and first and second curved needles coupled to the shaft. The housing defines a gap between a first edge of the housing and a second edge of the housing, the gap adapted to receive tissue. The first and second needles curved needles being articulable within the housing from a delivery position, at which the first and second needles are spaced from the gap, to a deployed position, at which the first and second needles extend through the gap. Actuation of the shaft simultaneously articulates the first and second needles and the first needle enters the gap before the second needle enters the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.
    Inventors: William Thomas Kelly, Manoj Kumar Singh
  • Concentric keel TKA
    Patent number: 11278416
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are implants with pivots that can be rotated about these pivots to be implanted onto bone, and methods for implanting same. The implant may have a plurality of pivot pads and curved projections extending from one or more bone contacting surfaces. The pivot pads and curved projections may engage with corresponding features on bone for implantation and securement of the implant to the bone. The implant may be rotated about the plurality of pivot pads placed in corresponding recesses on bone to seat the projections into the corresponding recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.
    Inventors: Michael C. Ferko, Peter Wellings
  • Guides and instruments for improving accuracy of glenoid implant placement
    Patent number: 11278299
    Abstract: A patient specific shoulder guide is provided that includes a hub and a plurality of peripheral members. Each of the peripheral members has a peripheral member height dimension between the patient specific contact surface and a side of the peripheral member opposite the patient specific contact surface. At least one of the peripheral members is a low profile peripheral member in which the peripheral height dimension is less than the peripheral height dimension of at least one other of the peripheral members or is less than the hub height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP
    Inventors: Nicolas Neichel, Benoit Le Negaret
  • Osteotome extractor
    Patent number: 11278428
    Abstract: A surgical tool, enabling extraction of a prosthesis from a bony implantation site of that prosthesis, defines a proximo-distal axis and includes a distal end head adapted both to cut at least partially the bonding interface between the prosthesis and the bony material of the implantation site and to fix itself to the prosthesis by rotation centered on the proximo-distal axis, according to embodiments of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Robert Courtney, Jr., Jeffrey M. Ondrla
  • MODULAR HUMERAL HEAD AND RELATED METHODS
    Publication number: 20220071771
    Abstract: Provided is a method of assembling an articular component of a prosthetic shoulder joint. The method includes: engaging an end of a coupler of a joint implant with a coupling portion of another component of the joint implant; providing relative rotation between the end of the coupler and the coupling portion of the other component of the joint implant along a continuous range of rotational positions while the end is engaged with the coupling portion of the other component of the joint implant; selecting an amount of eccentricity corresponding to a position within the continuous range of rotational position; and securing the other component of the joint implant to the end of the coupler at the selected amount of eccentricity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Austin Wyatt Mutchler, Kevin P. Knox
  • Elbow joint prostheses
    Patent number: 11266507
    Abstract: A radial head assembly is provided that includes a stem, a collar, a locking ring, and an articular member. The stem has a convex articular head on one end thereof. The locking ring has a ring wall, which has a ring opening. The ring wall has an angular outer surface and a slot configured to permit the ring wall to radially expand. The angular outer surface engages an angular portion of an interior surface of the collar. The articular member and the locking ring define an articular space within the collar. The articular space is configured to receive the convex articular head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Matthew Victor Kartholl, Brad Alan Parker, Kevin Alika Farley, Ryan D. Koepke
  • Method for manufacturing a patient-specific prosthesis for a fractured long bone
    Patent number: 11266503
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for manufacturing a prosthesis (11) for a fractured long bone of a patient, the method comprising the steps of: A) providing data representative of the fractured long bone, the fractured long bone comprising a diaphyseal fragment (2) comprising a medullary cavity (8); B) based on said data, designing the prosthesis specifically to the patient, the prosthesis comprising a stem part (12) configured to be inserted into the medullary cavity, step B) comprising: a sub-step of choosing, specifically to the patient, a contact zone (40) of the medullary cavity onto which a respective chosen mechanical stress is planned to be applied by the stem part, and a sub-step of designing the stem part so that the stem part may be inserted into the medullary cavity and thus apply the chosen mechanical stress to said contact zone; and C) manufacturing the prosthesis designed at step B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Vincent Coulange, Céline Courtade-Jouanicq, Shawn M. Gargac, Marine Godelu, Guillaume Rognin
  • SOFT TISSUE MODELING AND PLANNING SYSTEM FOR ORTHOPEDIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES
    Publication number: 20220059212
    Abstract: A surgical planning system for use in surgical procedures to repair an anatomy of interest includes a preplanning system to generate a virtual surgical plan and a mixed reality system that includes a visualization device wearable by a user to view the virtual surgical plan projected in a real environment. The virtual surgical plan includes a 3D virtual model of the anatomy of interest. When wearing the visualization device, the user can align the 3D virtual model with the real anatomy of interest, thereby achieving a registration between details of the virtual surgical plan and the real anatomy of interest. The registration enables a surgeon to implement the virtual surgical plan on the real anatomy of interest without the use of tracking markers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Jean Chaoui, Charlotte Le Saint, Maximilien Mayya, Manuel Jean-Marie Urvoy
  • Robotic System For Shoulder Arthroplasty Using Stemless Implant Components
    Publication number: 20220031413
    Abstract: Robotic systems and methods for robotic arthroplasty. The robotic system includes a machining station and a guidance station. The guidance station tracks movement of various objects in the operating room, such as a surgical tool, a humerus of a patient, and a scapula of the patient. The guidance station tracks these objects for purposes of controlling movement of the surgical tool relative to virtual cutting boundaries or other virtual objects associated with the humerus and scapula to facilitate preparation of bone to receive a shoulder implant system. The virtual objects are located based on density data of the bone such that, when one or more shoulder implants are fully seated in the bone, distal portions of the implants are located in a first region of the bone having a density characteristic greater than an adjacent second region of the bone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.
    Inventors: Rajan Yadav, Jetinder Singh, Koustubh Rao
  • MODULAR HUMERAL HEAD
    Publication number: 20220031464
    Abstract: A humeral head assembly is provided that includes an articular body and a coupler. The articular body includes a coupling portion disposed on a side of the articular body opposite an articular surface. The coupling portion includes a continuous zone of eccentricity adjustment. The coupler portion optionally includes one or more than one discrete position site. The coupler includes a first portion and a second portion opposite the first portion. The first portion is configured to mate with the coupling portion and the second portion is configured to mate with another member of a joint prosthesis. A coupling portion with the continuous range of eccentricity adjustment can be provided on a bone anchor and the eccentricity of another component can be selected by motion of a coupler, such as a tray for reverse humeral assemblies, along the coupling portion of the anchor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Kevin P. KNOX, Austin Wyatt MUTCHLER, Michael C. NELSON, David R. STUMP
  • Guides and instruments for improving accuracy of glenoid implant placement
    Patent number: 11234721
    Abstract: A patient specific shoulder guide is provided that includes a hub and a plurality of peripheral members. Each of the peripheral members has a peripheral member height dimension between the patient specific contact surface and a side of the peripheral member opposite the patient specific contact surface. At least one of the peripheral members is a low profile peripheral member in which the peripheral height dimension is less than the peripheral height dimension of at least one other of the peripheral members or is less than the hub height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Shawn M. Gargac, Nicolas R. Neichel, Benoit Le Negaret
  • Augmented glenoid components and devices for implanting the same
    Patent number: 11234826
    Abstract: A glenoid component for coupling to a scapula of a subject includes a body. The body includes an articulation surface adapted to articulate with a humeral component, and the body further includes a distal surface adapted to face the glenoid of the scapula. The distal surface includes a base surface portion adapted to face a first portion of the glenoid. The distal surface further includes an augmented surface portion adapted to face a second portion of the glenoid. The base surface portion and the augmented surface portion define an obtuse angle therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Brian C. Hodorek, Pierric Deransart, Bradley Grant Emerick, Alexandre Terrier, Alain Jean-Pierre Farron, Robert Courtney, Jr., Travis James Geels
  • GUIDES AND INSTRUMENTS FOR IMPROVING ACCURACY OF GLENOID IMPLANT PLACEMENT
    Publication number: 20220022895
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for making a glenoid guide that includes obtaining scapula surface profile information of a specific patient, providing a manufacturing plan for making the glenoid guide having at least one patient specific contact surface configured to contact a portion of the glenoid rim or glenoid surface and for making the guide having a rotation control feature forming member, and adapting the manufacturing plan to specify the location of the rotation control forming feature relative to a portion of the glenoid determined to benefit from augmentation based on the surface profile information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Nicolas R. Neichel, Benoit Le Negaret
  • Stabilized knee prosthesis
    Patent number: 11229521
    Abstract: A knee prosthesis includes a femoral component, a tibial component, and a coupling component interconnecting the femoral component and the tibial component. The tibial component includes ball. The femoral component is configured to move relative to the tibial component. The coupling component defines an internal cavity including a first spherical end portion and a second spherical end portion. The internal cavity is dimensioned to receive the ball of the tibial component. The ball is repositioned between the first spherical end portion and the second spherical end portion of the internal cavity upon movement of the femoral component relative to the tibial component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.
    Inventors: Carlos E. Collazo, Damon J. Servidio