Patents Examined by Zade Coley
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Patent number: 11389216Abstract: The device has a body with holes to accept the bone screws. The bone screws have a layer of bioresorbable material on a surface portion of the head of the screw contiguous with the shaft. Engagement between the bone screws and the body is initially through the bioresorbable material, which engagement rigidly fixes the relative angular orientation between the bone screws and the body when the device is applied to a bone. As the bioresrobable material is resorbed the angular relation between the bone screws and the body is no longer rigidly fixed, thereby effecting a transformation from rigid osteosynthesis to flexible osteosynthesis to allow micromotion between the bone fragments which promotes healing.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Stabiliz Orthopaedics, LLCInventors: Douglas Cerynik, Susan P. Harding
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Patent number: 11364040Abstract: An orthopedic burring tool includes a burring tip configured for removal of bone to form a bore in the bone, an elongated intermediate segment having a smooth outer surface along a length of the segment, a conical widening segment at the proximal end of the intermediate segment that widens from the diameter of the burring tip to a diameter that is about twice the burring tip diameter. The widening segment includes an outer surface configured for removal of bone upon rotation of the burring tool. The tool includes an upper segment configured for engagement to a rotary driving tool and having a cylindrical outer surface configured for removal of bone upon rotation of the burring tool for removal of material from bony structure adjacent the bone bore formed by the burring tip.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc.Inventor: Gregory Poulter
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Patent number: 11357521Abstract: A drill guide arm for providing guidance for placement of a bone tunnel, while protecting against trauma. The guide arm includes a first arm at a proximal end connected at an angle to a second arm, the second arm extending to a distal end. The angle can be within the range of 80°-110°. The second arm extends along a first axis. The guide arm also includes a distal tip extending at a second angle from the second arm at the distal end, and an indicator feature extending from the distal tip toward the first arm. The indicator feature extends along a second axis, the second axis being substantially parallel to the first axis. The guide arm can also include a shield feature of the distal tip. The shield feature has a width wider than the remainder of the distal tip.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Conmed CorporationInventors: Andrew Kam, Andrew Muser, Kalifa A. Clarke, Peter Verdonk, Björn G. Barenius, Seth L. Sherman, Brian R. Wolf, Timothy Spalding
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Patent number: 11357553Abstract: A plate for securing two bone segments in a tibial plateau levelling osteotomy procedure having a body with an elongate distal portion and a proximal portion extending laterally and a plurality of apertures for receiving fixing means wherein at least two of the apertures are adapted to receive fixing means and at least one of the said apertures is adapted to receive a removable plug which extends proud of the bone-facing surface. One of the apertures has a camming surface configured such that upon insertion of the fixing means the bone fragments are urged together thereby promoting healing without deleterious compression of the surface of the bone.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2017Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: VetSOS Ltd.Inventor: Rory M. Paton
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Patent number: 11344424Abstract: An expandable implant includes a first plate and a second plate spaced from each other along a first direction. The first plate defines a first bone-contacting surface configured to contact a superior vertebral body and the second plate defines a second bone-contacting surface opposed to the first bone contacting surface along the first direction. The second bone contacting surface is configured to contact an inferior vertebral body. The implant includes an actuation member at least partially disposed between the first and second plates with respect to the first direction. The actuation member defines a first axis, a first end and a second end spaced from the first end along a second direction along the first axis. The second direction is perpendicular to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Inventor: Phat Luu
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Patent number: 11344346Abstract: In one aspect, a bone plate system that includes a bone plate having a plurality of elongated through openings. The bone plate system includes a plurality of bone screws and a plurality of sliders in the elongated through openings of the bone plate that receive the bone screws. The bone plate system includes at least one resilient member for being configured to apply a biasing force to each of the sliders to urge the slider toward one end portion of a respective through opening. Further, the bone plate system includes at least one actuator having an interference position in which the actuator inhibits shifting of the sliders toward the one end portion of the through opening and a clearance position in which the actuator permits the at least one resilient member to urge the sliders and the bone screws received therein toward the one end portion of the through openings.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc.Inventor: Matthew P. Gephart
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Patent number: 11337820Abstract: Embodiments of forming custom interbody implants that may be used to stabilize region(s) formed between mammalian bony segments, including systems and methods to produce a custom interbody element that may be used to stabilize or couple region(s) formed between two or more mammalian bony segments. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Inventor: Samuel Cho
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Patent number: 11337830Abstract: This disclosure relates to a defect gauge instrument and method for repairing bone defects. The defect gauge instrument disclosed herein may be utilized to determine one or more characteristics of a bone defect prior to positioning a graft and/or implant at a surgical site.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: ARTHREX, INC.Inventors: Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez, John David Paterson, Tyler Clevett
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Patent number: 11337741Abstract: A medical device for kyphoplasty procedures is disclosed. The medical device includes a trocar configured for insertion in a vertebral cavity, the trocar having a longitudinal axis that is perpendicular to a second axis, an orifice at a first end of the trocar in, the orifice configured for deploying a balloon tamponade, the balloon tamponade configured for inserting into a second end of the trocar, through the trocar and out of the orifice at a first end of the trocar, and, wherein the balloon tamponade is configured to be inflated such that the balloon tamponade inflates to a greater extent along the second axis than the longitudinal axis of the trocar.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Inventor: Sergio Lenchig
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Patent number: 11337762Abstract: A method for creating a patient-specific surgical plan includes receiving one or more pre-operative images of a patient having one or more infirmities affecting one or more anatomical joints, three-dimensional anatomical model of the one or more anatomical joints is created based on the one or more pre-operative images. One or more transfer functions and the three-dimensional anatomical model are used to identify a patient-specific implantation geometry that corrects the one or more infirmities. The transfer functions model performance of the one or more anatomical joints as a function of anatomical geometry and anatomical implantation features, surgical plan comprising the patient-specific implantation geometry may then be displayed.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignees: Smith & Nephew, Inc., Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG, Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. LimitedInventors: Brian W. McKinnon, Ruxandra Cristiana Marinescu Tanasoca, Randy C. Winebarger, William L. Bowers, Jr., James Bennett Wiebe, III, Nathaniel Milton Lenz, Sean M. Haddock, Ryan Lloyd Landon, Shawn P. McGuan, Constantinos Nikou, Elizabeth Duxbury
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Patent number: 11331126Abstract: The disclosure relates to a handle device for a surgical tool, and more particularly to a handle device for a surgical tool, which is freely controllable and usable in a surgical operation because the surgical tool is supported while steadily maintaining a position of a marker. The handle device for the surgical tool according to the disclosure includes a handle body formed with a tool insertion hole for inserting the surgical tool therein; a grip member detachably installed in the handle body; and a marker member installed in the handle body.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: CUREXO, INC.Inventor: Yong Yeob Cha
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Patent number: 11331109Abstract: A device (100) and method (1200) for autogenous bone grafting simultaneously cuts a cross-section of a bone (212), both longitudinally with a longitudinal cutting member (104), and transversely with a saw (140) during a bone drilling procedure to obtain a bone block (214) for repairing and rebuilding diseased bones. The device (100) is hand-controllable to selectively cut internally to the device (100), so as to cut captured bone (212) for internal bone harvesting. The device (100) also selectively cuts surrounding bone (212) outside the device (100) for external bone harvesting. The saw (140) is biased to stow in a wall space (120) when not in use, and rotate along a perpendicular plane (202) inwardly or outwardly for internal or external cutting of the bone (212), respectively. The saw (140) rotatably extends inwardly to support and carry the bone block (214) after a longitudinal section has been cut.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: EXPLORUS SURGICAL LIMITEDInventor: Kah Hung Benjamino Lee
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Patent number: 11324559Abstract: Airway management methods, devices, assemblies and systems. Methods, devices, assemblies and systems may include robotic movement and control of an intubation tube introducer or guide, and may include utilizing image data from one or more image sensors. The methods, devices, assemblies and systems may optionally be used in endotracheal intubation procedures.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Spiro Robotics, Inc.Inventors: Vladimir Nekhendzy, Dimitri Sokolov
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Patent number: 11317899Abstract: A mounting adapter has a proximal end for interfacing with a surgical stabilizer arm and a distal end for interfacing with a tissue manipulator tool. The adapter includes a receiver body defining a bore having an opening at the distal end for receiving the shaft of a manipulator tool. The receiver body has a detent projecting radially into the bore. A ball stem projects at the proximal end and is configured for insertion into a collet of the stabilizer arm. The detent is radially displaceable between 1) a radially outward position when the adapter is in an unlocked state in which the shaft of the manipulator tool is slidable into or out of the bore and 2) a radially inward position when the adapter is in a locked state in which the detent captures the shaft of the manipulator tool.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Terumo Cardiovascular Systems CorporationInventors: Bryan Melilli, Timothy J. Canatella
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Patent number: 11317956Abstract: A bone screw may be insertable into a bone, and may have a proximal member, a distal member with bone-engaging threads, wherein the distal member is configured to slidably engage the proximal member such that a variable-length cavity is defined within the proximal member and the distal member, and a tension member residing at least partially within the variable-length cavity. The tension member may have a proximal end coupled to the proximal member and a distal end coupled to the distal member such that, in response to motion of the distal member away from the proximal member, the tension member elongates and urges the distal member to move toward the proximal member. The proximal member and the distal member may be interconnected to share bending loads at a bending transmission feature.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2021Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: University of Utah Research FoundationInventors: Colin S. Gregersen, T. Wade Fallin, Charles L. Saltzman
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Patent number: 11317925Abstract: An osteotomy surgical apparatus according to the present invention includes a bone cutting blade used for cutting bone tissue and a guard disposed so as to overlap the bone cutting blade in a side view of the bone cutting blade. A distal end of the guard is disposed at a position retracted rearward relative to a blade edge of the bone cutting blade.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: OLYMPUS TERUMO BIOMATERIALS CORP.Inventors: Koichi Kuroda, Mitsuya Urata, Ryohei Takeuchi
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Patent number: 11304706Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.Inventor: Carlos E. Collazo
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Patent number: 11304711Abstract: An orthopaedic surgical instrument system includes a compression socket configured for coupling with a selected one of a number of compressible bases. Each compressible base is shaped to conform with a posterior surface of either a dome patella implant component or an anatomical patella implant component.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: DEPUY IRELAND UNLIMITED COMPANYInventors: Rebecca L. Boldt, Matthew S. Wallace, Jeremy M. Oden, Jon M. Edwards
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Patent number: 11304708Abstract: A microfracture device for creating small holes in a bone. The microfracture device includes a handle having a body extending along a central longitudinal axis with a proximal end and a distal end; a shaft connected to the distal end of the body, the shaft having a distal tip; wherein the distal tip extends at first angle relative to the central longitudinal axis; a sliding mechanism slidably engaged with a surface of the body and moveable between a first configuration and a second configuration; and wherein the sliding mechanism further comprises a striking surface extending therefrom, wherein the striking surface is positioned at a second angle to the central longitudinal axis that is at least substantially similar to the first angle.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Conmed CorporationInventors: Gregory Alfonso, Robert A. Thibodeau, Matthew C. Summitt
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Patent number: 11298119Abstract: A retractor system includes first and second fixation pins and a retractor assembly including first and second retractor bodies. Each of the first and second retractor bodies includes a main panel and extension panels extending from the main panel. Each of the first and second retractor bodies is transitionable between a first configuration, in which, each of the first and second retractor bodies is substantially flat, and a second configuration, in which, each of the first and second retractor bodies has a substantially U-shaped profile such that the extension panels oppose each other. The extension panels of the first retractor body are configured to selectively overlap the respective extension panels of the second retractor body when the first and second retractor bodies are in the second configuration.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: K2M, Inc.Inventors: Faheem Sandhu, Nick Padovani, Josh Rubin, Robert J. Tokash
