Patents Examined by David H. Willse
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Patent number: 9918843Abstract: A knee replacement system including a first tibial baseplate, a second tibial baseplate, and an intercondylar bridge member. Each one of the first and second tibial baseplates includes a bone engaging surface and a bearing engaging surface opposite to the bone engaging surface. Each one of the first and second tibial baseplates also includes a first baseplate coupling portion and a second baseplate coupling portion. The first baseplate coupling portion is configured to couple with the intercondylar bridge member for coupling the second tibial baseplate to the first tibial baseplate. The second baseplate coupling portion is configured to couple an insert to the first and second tibial baseplates.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Biomet Manufacturing, LLCInventor: Andrew Pierce
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Patent number: 9801709Abstract: An intraocular lens system is presented that comprises an electro-active lens comprising multiple independently controllable zones or pixels, and a controller capable of being remotely programmed.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2014Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc.Inventors: Ronald Blum, William Kokonaski
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Patent number: 9603711Abstract: Methods and devices are disclosed relating improved articular models, implant components, and related guide tools and procedures. In addition, methods and devices are disclosed relating articular models, implant components, and/or related guide tools and procedures that include one or more features derived from patient-data, for example, images of the patient's joint. The data can be used to create a model for analyzing a patient's joint and to devise and evaluate a course of corrective action. The data also can be used to create patient-adapted implant components and related tools and procedures.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2010Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: ConforMIS, Inc.Inventors: Raymond A. Bojarski, Nam T. Chao, John Slamin, Philipp Lang, Wolfgang Fitz, Daniel Steines, Thomas Minas
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Patent number: 9592126Abstract: A liner adapted for insertion into an acetabular shell for use in hip arthroplasty. The liner includes a concave inner surface adapted to engage a femoral head. The liner also includes an outer surface adapted to engage the acetabular shell and a rim that extends between the inner surface and the outer surface. The outer surface includes a locking section extending from the rim, a composite-curved section extending from the locking section at a first transition point, and a dome section extending from the composite-curved section, wherein at the first transition point, the composite-curved section is tangential to the locking section.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2015Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: John M Armacost, James A Caywood, Ryan C Keefer
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Patent number: 9585745Abstract: An intraocular lens comprises a flexible optic and at least one haptic connected to the optic. The at least one haptic comprises a rigid structure.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2016Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Inventor: James Stuart Cumming
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Patent number: 9572675Abstract: Methods for altering the natural history of degenerative disc disease and osteoarthritis of the spine are proposed. The methods focus on the prevention, or delayed onset or progression of, subchondral defects such as bone marrow edema or bone marrow lesion, and subchondral treatment to prevent the progression of osteoarthritis or degenerative disc disease in the spine and thereby treat pain.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2016Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: ZIMMER KNEE CREATIONS, INC.Inventors: Peter F. Sharkey, Charles F. Leinberry, David L. Nichols, Marc R. Viscogliosi, Hallett Mathews
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Patent number: 9566150Abstract: An intraocular lens (IOL) has an optic, a peripheral rim, and a reduced thickness region connecting the optic to the peripheral rim. The peripheral rim has a continuously curving outer edge that it does not include any tangents parallel to the optical axis either along its length or at the intersection of the outer edge with the anterior or posterior surfaces of the IOL.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2013Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Novartis AGInventors: Robert D. Angelopoulos, Kamal K. Das, Jonathan McCann
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Patent number: 9554838Abstract: Methods for treating pain resulting from osteoarthritis, and associated devices and instruments for such pain treatment are disclosed. These methods aim to prevent the progression of osteoarthritis of a joint, by biochemically diagnosing microenvironmental abnormalities in the subchondral bone, and subsequently treating the subchondral bone to prevent, or delay the onset or progression of, or otherwise treat, osteoarthritis as well as any bone marrow edema or lesion.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2015Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: ZIMMER KNEE CREATIONS, INC.Inventors: Peter F. Sharkey, Charles F. Leinberry
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Patent number: 9554911Abstract: An artificial knee joint includes a femoral component (1) and a tibial component (2). The femoral component (1) includes an intercondylar box (11). A cam (12) is provided on posterior of the intercondylar box (11). The tibial component (2) includes a medial condyle bearing surface (21) and a lateral condyle bearing surface (22) arranged on right and left side respectively. A post (23) is provided between the medial condyle bearing surface (21) and the lateral condyle bearing surface (22). The post (23) is adapted to the intercondylar box (11). The post (23) has a first arc surface (231) on the lateral side of posterior surface. The post (23) has a second arc surface (232) on the posterior surface and on the medial side of the first arc surface (231). A third arc surface (121) and a forth surface (122), cooperating with the first arc surface (231) and the second arc surface (232), are provided on the cam (12) accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2012Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: BEIJING NATON TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTDInventors: Tiebing Qu, Cheng-kung Cheng, Dayong Song, Lili Hou
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Patent number: 9554891Abstract: An apparatus, system and method for constricting a cornea of a human eye are disclosed. A control device external to the subject eye, such as an induction generator, may be configured to create a stimulus, such as a magnetic field, for an implanted ring that, when stimulated, may change the curvature, and thus the dioptric power, of the eye, thereby approximating natural accommodation.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: AMO Groningen B.V.Inventors: Luuk Franssen, Hendrik A. Weeber, Marrie H. van der Mooren, Carmen Canovas Vidal, Kaccie Y. Li, Sieger Meijer, Richard Hartman
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Patent number: 9545517Abstract: The present disclosure describes a video device suitable to be word on the head of a user in the form of glasses. The glasses frame supports a camera, active electronics and a battery.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2013Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.Inventors: Robert J Greenberg, Mark S Humayun, Rajat N Agrawal, Kevin Wilkin, James S Little, Da-Yu Chang
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Patent number: 9545303Abstract: A mask is provided that is configured to increase the depth of focus of a patient. The mask can include an aperture configured to transmit along an optical axis substantially all visible incident light. The mask can further include a portion surrounding at least a portion of the aperture. The portion may be configured to be substantially opaque to visible electromagnetic radiation and be substantially transparent to electromagnetic radiation transmitted from an ocular examination device (e.g., substantially transparent to at least some non-visible electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength between about 750 nm and about 1500 nm).Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: AcuFocus, Inc.Inventors: Abhiram S. Vilupuru, Marie Dvorak Christ
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Patent number: 9532902Abstract: The present invention comprises an implant for placing inside the eye such that the implant comes into contact with the interior tissue of the eye such that it conforms to the inner globe geometry of the eye. Implants of the present invention may also be used to alter the focal length of the eye thereby providing a treatment method for the correction of myopia and hyperopia. The device may consist of several possible configurations, an open mesh structure, a solid metal ring, a solid polymer shape, a mesh polymer shape or combination of these. The shape may be a curve, a sphere, a ring or a combination thereof that are specifically shaped to approximate a desired portion of the interior globe of the eye in order to treat myopia or hyperopia.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2011Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Optistent, Inc.Inventors: Rudy A. Mazzocchi, Michael Calhoun
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Patent number: 9532876Abstract: Methods for the prevention, or delayed onset or progression of, bone marrow edema or bone marrow lesion, and subchondral treatment to prevent the progression of osteoarthritis of a joint are disclosed. The methods involve treating the subchondral bone, while preserving, as much as possible, the joint's articular and cartilage surface. The methods could be performed before, during, or after an initial arthroscopic surgery to repair the joint. Associated devices and instruments for treatment of the subchondral bone are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2015Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: ZIMMER KNEE CREATIONS, INC.Inventors: Peter F. Sharkey, Charles F. Leinberry
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Patent number: 9517127Abstract: A prosthetic capsular device configured to be inserted in an eye includes a housing structure and a ring structure. The housing structure includes a first side, a second side opposite the first side, a third side, a fourth side opposite the third side, a posterior side including a refractive surface, an anterior side opposite the posterior side, and a longitudinal axis. The first side, the second side, the third side, the fourth side, the posterior side, and the anterior side at least partially define a cavity configured to contain an intraocular device (e.g., an IOL). The anterior side includes an opening. The ring structure includes a ring structure portion extending radially outward from proximate one of an end of the first side and an end of the second side.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2016Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: Omega Ophthalmics LLCInventors: Gary N. Wortz, Rick William Ifland
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Patent number: 9510950Abstract: An implant for a hip can include a lateral augment adapted to be coupled to a lateral side of a femoral body implant. The lateral augment can include a body portion having a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a protrusion extending from the second surface. The protrusion can have a shape adapted to mate with a complementary shaped recess formed in the lateral side of the femoral body implant. An aperture can be positioned in the body portion and extend through the protrusion. A fastener can be received through the aperture and adapted to be threadably secured to the lateral bore. The fastener can be configured to have a length sufficient to pass through a portion of a greater trochanter for securing the portion of the greater trochanter and the lateral augment to the femoral body implant.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Biomet Manufacturing, LLCInventors: Aaron P. Smith, Tyler D. Witt, Hugh Apthorp, Keith R. Berend, Andrew Freiberg, John Barrington, David R. Brown
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Patent number: 9504558Abstract: A prosthetic capsular device configured to be inserted in an eye includes a housing structure and a ring structure. The housing structure includes a first side, a second side opposite the first side, a third side, a fourth side opposite the third side, a posterior side including a refractive surface, an anterior side opposite the posterior side, and a longitudinal axis. The first side, the second side, the third side, the fourth side, the posterior side, and the anterior side at least partially define a cavity configured to contain an intraocular device (e.g., an IOL). The anterior side includes an opening. The ring structure includes a ring structure portion extending radially outward from proximate one of an end of the first side and an end of the second side.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2016Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Omega Ophthalmics LLCInventors: Gary N. Wortz, Rick William Ifland
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Patent number: 9504581Abstract: A modular humeral head resurfacing implant including a head, an anchoring stem, and a modular extended articulation flange. The head includes an exterior hemispherical articulating surface defining a terminating rim, an interior concave surface opposite to the exterior articulating surface, and a first coupling mechanism proximate to the terminating rim. The anchoring stem is coupled to the interior concave surface and extends along a stem axis that extends through an axial center of the head. The articulation flange includes a second coupling mechanism configured to cooperate with the first coupling mechanism to fasten the articulation flange to the head and an outer articulating surface that is curved along substantially its entire length and is substantially flush with the exterior hemispherical articulating surface when the articulation flange is fastened to the head.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2016Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Biomet Manufacturing, LLCInventors: Russell M. Parrott, Nathan A. Winslow
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Patent number: 9498324Abstract: A scleral prosthesis includes an elongated body configured to be implanted into scleral tissue of an eye. The elongated body includes (i) opposing first and second ends and (ii) multiple first portions that form the first end of the body and part of a remainder of the body between the first and second ends. The first portions of the body are separated by empty space, and the first and second ends are wider than the remainder of the body. The scleral prosthesis also includes an insert configured to be placed and retained between the first portions of the body. At least part of the insert, prior to insertion between the first portions of the body, has a shape complementary to a shape of the empty space.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Refocus Group, Inc.Inventors: Harry R. A. Jacobson, Jack C. Griffis, III, Mark A. Cox, Douglas C. Williamson, Gene W. Zdenek, Peter J. Richardson, Michael K. Smolek, Barrie D. Soloway, Rex O. Bare, Andrew J. Scherer, Timothy J. Payne
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Patent number: 9486310Abstract: A system includes a scleral prosthesis and an insert. The scleral prosthesis includes an elongated body having a first free end and a second free end opposite the first end. A maximum width of the body at each end is wider than a maximum width of the body between the ends. The body includes multiple first portions that form the first end of the body and a part of the body between the ends. The first portions are separated lengthwise along a substantial portion of a total length of the body. The first portions are biased so that they maintain separation from one another without external interference but are configured to be pushed towards each other. The insert is configured to be placed between the first portions to maintain a separation of the first portions. The body and/or the insert could be formed using one or more magnetic materials.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2014Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Refocus Group, Inc.Inventors: Harry R. A. Jacobson, Jack C. Griffis, III, Mark A. Cox, Douglas C. Williamson, Gene W. Zdenek, Peter J. Richardson, Michael K. Smolek, Barrie D. Soloway, Rex O. Bare, Andrew J. Scherer, Timothy J. Payne