Patents by Inventor Adam J. Cundiff

Adam J. Cundiff has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11617607
    Abstract: Innovative orthopedic implant assemblies and devices are provided. One example assembly includes two implant devices. An example implant device includes two ends oppositely located with a bulbous portion located at one end and a screw portion located at the opposite end. An example second implant device includes two ends oppositely located with a looped portion defining an aperture located at one end and a nail portion located at the opposite end. The nail portion can include a tip and a smooth or substantially smooth portion. The second implant device can be implanted into a bone by striking the looped portion to facilitate the tip and at least part of the nail portion penetrating the bone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Inventors: Adam J. Cundiff, Nathan G. Peterson
  • Publication number: 20220409222
    Abstract: Osteotomy cutting systems and surgical methods are provided herein. One surgical method includes coupling, to a cuneiform of a subject, a surgical apparatus for use in facilitating correction of a bunion and coupling the surgical apparatus to another bone of the subject. Another surgical method includes coupling a surgical apparatus to a cuneiform and metatarsal of a subject, coupling a cutting block for alignment at a joint between the cuneiform and the metatarsal, and performing a surgical procedure utilizing the surgical apparatus and the cutting block to correct a bunion. A further surgical method includes providing a surgical apparatus for use in facilitating correction of a bunion in a subject in which the surgical apparatus is configured to couple to a cuneiform and a metatarsal of the subject and performing a surgical procedure utilizing the surgical apparatus while the surgical apparatus is coupled to the cuneiform and the metatarsal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Fusion Orthopedics USA, LLC
    Inventors: Adam J. Cundiff, Nathan G. Peterson, Eli W. Jacobson, Sergio H. Urquiza
  • Publication number: 20220361898
    Abstract: Surgical instruments and methods for performing an osteotomy are disclosed herein. A surgical instrument includes a body with a distal end, a proximal end, a first surface, and a second surface. The surgical instrument can include cutting blades positioned on the first surface and the second surface. The surgical instrument can include columns of cutting blades positioned on the first surface and/or the second surface. The surgical instrument can include rows of cutting blades positioned on the first surface and/or the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Fusion Orthopedics, LLC
    Inventors: Adam J. Cundiff, Nathan G. Peterson, Eli W. Jacobson
  • Publication number: 20220304707
    Abstract: Surgical instruments and methods for performing an osteotomy are disclosed herein. A surgical instrument includes a body with a distal end, a proximal end, a first surface, and a second surface. The surgical instrument can include cutting burrs positioned on the first surface and/or the second surface. The surgical instrument can also include cutting burrs positioned on the first surface and cutting blades positioned on the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Fusion Orthopedics, LLC
    Inventors: Adam J. Cundiff, Nathan G. Peterson, Eli W. Jacobson
  • Publication number: 20220304706
    Abstract: Surgical instruments and methods for performing an osteotomy are disclosed herein. A surgical instrument includes a body with a distal end, a proximal end, a first surface, and a second surface. The surgical instrument can include cutting burrs positioned on the first surface and/or the second surface. The surgical instrument can also include cutting burrs positioned on the first surface and cutting blades positioned on the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Fusion Orthopedics, LLC
    Inventors: Adam J. Cundiff, Nathan G. Peterson, Eli W. Jacobson
  • Publication number: 20220304708
    Abstract: Surgical instruments and methods for performing an osteotomy are disclosed herein. A surgical instrument includes a body with a distal end, a proximal end, a first surface, and a second surface. The surgical instrument can include cutting burrs positioned on the first surface and/or the second surface. The surgical instrument can also include cutting burrs positioned on the first surface and cutting blades positioned on the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Fusion Orthopedics, LLC
    Inventors: Adam J. Cundiff, Nathan G. Peterson, Eli W. Jacobson
  • Publication number: 20220304701
    Abstract: Surgical instruments and methods for performing an osteotomy are disclosed herein. A surgical instrument includes a body with a distal end, a proximal end, a first surface, and a second surface. The surgical instrument can include cutting burrs positioned on the first surface and/or the second surface. The surgical instrument can include cutting burrs positioned on the first surface and cutting blades positioned on the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Fusion Orthopedics, LLC
    Inventors: Adam J. Cundiff, Nathan G. Peterson, Eli W. Jacobson
  • Publication number: 20220296257
    Abstract: Surgical instruments and methods for performing an osteotomy are disclosed herein. A surgical instrument includes a body with a distal end, a proximal end, a first surface, and a second surface. The surgical instrument can include cutting blades positioned on the first surface and the second surface. The surgical instrument can include columns of cutting blades positioned on the first surface and/or the second surface. The surgical instrument can include rows of cutting blades positioned on the first surface and/or the second surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Fusion Orthopedics, LLC
    Inventors: Adam J. Cundiff, Nathan G. Peterson, Eli W. Jacobson
  • Publication number: 20220287723
    Abstract: Surgical instruments for performing osteotomies and particularly, wedge-shaped osteotomies, are disclosed herein. A surgical instrument includes a body with a distal end, a proximal end, a bottom surface, and a top surface including a slope extending upward and along a single plane from the distal end to the proximal end. The surgical instrument further includes multiple cutting burrs positioned on the top surface extending along the slope from the distal end to the proximal end and teeth positioned on the distal end. Further, the body tapers from the distal end to the proximal end. Other surgical instruments include a non-patterned set of cutting burrs along the slope from the distal end to the proximal end or the cutting burrs positioned in multiple rows or columns on the top surface along the slope from the distal end to the proximal end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Fusion Orthopedics, LLC
    Inventors: Adam J. Cundiff, Nathan G. Peterson
  • Publication number: 20220287726
    Abstract: Surgical instruments for performing wedge-shaped osteotomies are disclosed herein. One surgical instrument includes a body with a distal end, a proximal end, a bottom surface, and a top surface including a slope extending upward and along a single plane from the distal end to the proximal end. The surgical instrument further includes multiple columns of cutting blades positioned on the top surface in which each of the cutting blades are spaced apart and extend vertically along at least a portion of the slope from the distal end to the proximal end. Another surgical instrument includes the cutting blades positioned in multiple rows of cutting blades on the top surface such that the multiple rows of cutting blades extend along the slope from the distal end to the proximal end and each cutting blade in the plurality of cutting blades extends horizontally across the top surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Fusion Orthopedics, LLC
    Inventors: Adam J. Cundiff, Nathan G. Peterson
  • Patent number: 11439415
    Abstract: Osteotomy cutting systems and surgical methods are provided herein. One surgical method includes coupling, to a cuneiform of a subject, a surgical apparatus for use in facilitating correction of a bunion and coupling the surgical apparatus to another bone of the subject. Another surgical method includes coupling a surgical apparatus to a cuneiform and metatarsal of a subject, coupling a cutting block for alignment at a joint between the cuneiform and the metatarsal, and performing a surgical procedure utilizing the surgical apparatus and the cutting block to correct a bunion. A further surgical method includes providing a surgical apparatus for use in facilitating correction of a bunion in a subject in which the surgical apparatus is configured to couple to a cuneiform and a metatarsal of the subject and performing a surgical procedure utilizing the surgical apparatus while the surgical apparatus is coupled to the cuneiform and the metatarsal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Inventors: Adam J. Cundiff, Nathan G. Peterson, Kolby K. Black, Mark William Roberts, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11376017
    Abstract: Surgical instruments for performing osteotomies and particularly, wedge-shaped osteotomies, are disclosed herein. A surgical instrument includes a body with a distal end, a proximal end, a bottom surface, and a top surface including a slope extending upward and along a single plane from the distal end to the proximal end. The surgical instrument further includes multiple cutting burrs positioned on the top surface extending along the slope from the distal end to the proximal end and teeth positioned on the distal end. Further, the body tapers from the distal end to the proximal end. Other surgical instruments include a non-patterned set of cutting burrs along the slope from the distal end to the proximal end or the cutting burrs positioned in multiple rows or columns on the top surface along the slope from the distal end to the proximal end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Inventors: Adam J. Cundiff, Nathan G. Peterson
  • Publication number: 20220151644
    Abstract: Surgical jigs for use in an osteotomy are provided herein. One surgical jig includes a rail body, a contact coupled to the rail body and configured to engage a metatarsal of a subject, and an attachment body coupled to the rail body and configured to engage a cuneiform of the subject. Other surgical jigs include a rail body, a contact coupled to the rail body and configured to engage a metatarsal of a subject; an arm coupled to the rail body, an attachment body coupled to the arm and configured to engage a cuneiform of the subject, a rail hinge coupling the arm and the rail body, a rail adjustment screw coupled to the arm, a rotation guide coupled to the rail body, and a distraction body coupled to the rail body. Some surgical jigs are reversible for performing an osteotomy on either foot or both feet of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Adam J. Cundiff, Nathan G. Peterson, Kolby K. Black, Mark William Roberts, JR., Scott Maling, Jason Harrill
  • Publication number: 20220151645
    Abstract: Osteotomy cutting systems and surgical methods are provided herein. One surgical method includes coupling, to a cuneiform of a subject, a surgical apparatus for use in facilitating correction of a bunion and coupling the surgical apparatus to another bone of the subject. Another surgical method includes coupling a surgical apparatus to a cuneiform and metatarsal of a subject, coupling a cutting block for alignment at a joint between the cuneiform and the metatarsal, and performing a surgical procedure utilizing the surgical apparatus and the cutting block to correct a bunion. A further surgical method includes providing a surgical apparatus for use in facilitating correction of a bunion in a subject in which the surgical apparatus is configured to couple to a cuneiform and a metatarsal of the subject and performing a surgical procedure utilizing the surgical apparatus while the surgical apparatus is coupled to the cuneiform and the metatarsal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Adam J. Cundiff, Nathan G. Peterson, Kolby K. Black, Mark William Roberts, JR.
  • Publication number: 20220151642
    Abstract: Various surgical cutting blocks are presented herein. One surgical cutting block includes a cutting platform including a positioning aperture formed on the cutting platform in which the positioning platform divides the cutting platform into first and second sides and the first side and/or the second side includes multiple single cut guides formed thereon. Another surgical cutting block includes a cutting platform including a positioning aperture formed on the cutting platform in which the positioning platform divides the cutting platform into first and second sides and the first side and/or the second side incudes a double cut guide formed thereon. Yet another surgical cutting block includes a cutting platform including a positioning aperture formed on the cutting platform in which the positioning platform divides the cutting platform into first and second sides and the first side and/or the second side includes a multi-cut guide formed thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Adam J. Cundiff, Nathan G. Peterson, Kolby K. Black, Mark William Roberts, JR., Eli W. Jacobson
  • Publication number: 20220087691
    Abstract: Surgical instruments for performing wedge-shaped osteotomies are disclosed herein. One surgical instrument includes a body with a distal end, a proximal end, a bottom surface, and a top surface including a slope extending upward and along a single plane from the distal end to the proximal end. The surgical instrument further includes multiple columns of cutting blades positioned on the top surface in which each of the cutting blades are spaced apart and extend vertically along at least a portion of the slope from the distal end to the proximal end. Another surgical instrument includes the cutting blades positioned in multiple rows of cutting blades on the top surface such that the multiple rows of cutting blades extend along the slope from the distal end to the proximal end and each cutting blade in the plurality of cutting blades extends horizontally across the top surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Fusion Orthopedics, LLC
    Inventors: Adam J. Cundiff, Nathan G. Peterson
  • Publication number: 20220079606
    Abstract: Surgical instruments for performing wedge-shaped osteotomies are disclosed herein. One surgical instrument includes a body including a distal end, a proximal end, and a top surface. The top surface includes a slope extending upward and along a single plane from the distal end to the proximal end. Multiple columns of cutting blades positioned on the top surface and each of the cutting blades includes a respective uniform height that extends vertically along at least a portion of the slope. Another surgical instrument includes a top surface including a flat plane. Multiple columns of cutting blades are positioned on the top surface and the columns of cutting blades are spaced apart and positioned on at least a portion of the top surface. Each cutting blade extends horizontally along the top surface and includes an increasing slope extending upward and along a single plane from the distal end to the proximal end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Fusion Orthopedics, LLC
    Inventors: Adam J. Cundiff, Nathan G. Peterson
  • Patent number: 11253272
    Abstract: Surgical instruments for performing wedge-shaped osteotomies are disclosed herein. One surgical instrument includes a body with a distal end, a proximal end, a bottom surface, and a top surface including a slope extending upward and along a single plane from the distal end to the proximal end. The surgical instrument further includes multiple columns of cutting blades positioned on the top surface in which each of the cutting blades are spaced apart and extend vertically along at least a portion of the slope from the distal end to the proximal end. Another surgical instrument includes the cutting blades positioned in multiple rows of cutting blades on the top surface such that the multiple rows of cutting blades extend along the slope from the distal end to the proximal end and each cutting blade in the plurality of cutting blades extends horizontally across the top surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Inventors: Adam J. Cundiff, Nathan G. Peterson
  • Patent number: 11253273
    Abstract: Surgical instruments for performing wedge-shaped osteotomies are disclosed herein. One surgical instrument includes a body including a distal end, a proximal end, and a top surface. The top surface includes a slope extending upward and along a single plane from the distal end to the proximal end. Multiple columns of cutting blades positioned on the top surface and each of the cutting blades includes a respective uniform height that extends vertically along at least a portion of the slope. Another surgical instrument includes a top surface including a flat plane. Multiple columns of cutting blades are positioned on the top surface and the columns of cutting blades are spaced apart and positioned on at least a portion of the top surface. Each cutting blade extends horizontally along the top surface and includes an increasing slope extending upward and along a single plane from the distal end to the proximal end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Inventors: Adam J. Cundiff, Nathan G. Peterson
  • Patent number: 10898248
    Abstract: Innovative orthopedic implant assemblies and devices are provided. One example assembly may include two implant devices. An example implant device may include two ends oppositely located with a bulbous portion at one end. An example bulbous portion may include a crown defining a terminal axis of one end and a thread disposed on an exterior surface of the bulbous portion and originating at the crown. A threaded portion defining a second terminal axis may be located at another end. An example second implant device may include two ends oppositely located. A looped portion defining an aperture including an interior surface with a groove disposed therein may be located at one end and the other end may include a screw portion or a nail portion. The thread and the groove can lock the bulbous portion and the looped portion when engaged with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Inventors: Adam J. Cundiff, Nathan G. Peterson