Patents by Inventor Adam Ryals

Adam Ryals 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: 12678233
    Abstract: Systems and methods for planning and assisting orthopaedic surgical procedures include a computer system and a robotic surgical device. The computer system receives multiple surgeon preferences, including target values and boundary values for surgical parameters of the orthopaedic surgical procedure. A surgeon uses the computer system to perform bony registration and leg-alignment registration for anatomy of a patient. The computer system determines a surgical plan for the orthopaedic surgical procedure based on the surgeon preferences, the bony registration, and the leg-alignment registration. The surgical plan includes planned values associated with the surgical parameters that are within the boundary values of the surgeon preferences. Determining the surgical plan may include automatically adjusting tibial coronal alignment, femoral coronal alignment, femoral flexion, femoral rotation, distal femoral resection height, proximal tibial resection height, and/or distal femoral resection height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: DePuy Ireland Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Adam Ryals, Daniel Girardeau-Montaut
  • Publication number: 20260165715
    Abstract: A drill guide clamp for attachment to a bone may include a worm screw, a sliding rack moveably connected to the worm screw, and at least two circular integrated drill tubes that extend through the drill guide clamp. Each drill tube may be sized to allow at least one screw or pin to fix the drill guide clamp to the bone. The drill tubes may be positioned to ensure that the pins or screws that fix the drill guide clamp to the bone are parallel. The sliding rack may include engagement interfaces that are moveable between an engagement and non-engagement position with the pins or screws via movement of the sliding rack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2024
    Publication date: June 18, 2026
    Applicant: DEPUY IRELAND UNLIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: Adam Ryals, Travis Crowe, Bryan Rose
  • Publication number: 20260108306
    Abstract: Systems and methods for bone surface geometry generation include a computing device. The computing device projects first geometry data indicative of a first bone-contacting surface of a first bone of a patient to a coordinate space of a second bone of the patient to generate projected geometry. The second bone includes a second bone-contacting surface that interfaces with the first bone-contacting surface. The computing device also maps the projected geometry to a plurality of poses in a range of motion of the first bone relative to the second bone using position data indicative of relative positions of the first bone and the second bone at the plurality of poses in the range of motion. The computing device further selects intersecting geometry from the mapped, projected geometry to generate second geometry data indicative of the second bone-contacting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2025
    Publication date: April 23, 2026
    Inventors: Adam Ryals, Daniel Girardeau-Montaut
  • Patent number: 12502221
    Abstract: Systems and methods for bone surface geometry generation include a computing device. The computing device projects first geometry data indicative of a first bone-contacting surface of a first bone of a patient to a coordinate space of a second bone of the patient to generate projected geometry. The second bone includes a second bone-contacting surface that interfaces with the first bone-contacting surface. The computing device also maps the projected geometry to a plurality of poses in a range of motion of the first bone relative to the second bone using position data indicative of relative positions of the first bone and the second bone at the plurality of poses in the range of motion. The computing device further selects intersecting geometry from the mapped, projected geometry to generate second geometry data indicative of the second bone-contacting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: DePuy Ireland Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Adam Ryals, Daniel Girardeau-Montaut
  • Publication number: 20250177051
    Abstract: Systems and methods for planning and assisting orthopaedic surgical procedures include a computer system and a robotic surgical device. The computer system receives multiple surgeon preferences, including target values and boundary values for surgical parameters of the orthopaedic surgical procedure. A surgeon uses the computer system to perform bony registration and leg-alignment registration for anatomy of a patient. The computer system determines a surgical plan for the orthopaedic surgical procedure based on the surgeon preferences, the bony registration, and the leg-alignment registration. The surgical plan includes planned values associated with the surgical parameters that are within the boundary values of the surgeon preferences. Determining the surgical plan may include automatically adjusting tibial coronal alignment, femoral coronal alignment, femoral flexion, femoral rotation, distal femoral resection height, proximal tibial resection height, and/or distal femoral resection height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2025
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Inventors: Adam Ryals, Daniel Girardeau-Montaut
  • Patent number: 12226164
    Abstract: Systems and methods for planning and assisting orthopaedic surgical procedures include a computer system and a robotic surgical device. The computer system receives multiple surgeon preferences, including target values and boundary values for surgical parameters of the orthopaedic surgical procedure. A surgeon uses the computer system to perform bony registration and leg-alignment registration for anatomy of a patient. The computer system determines a surgical plan for the orthopaedic surgical procedure based on the surgeon preferences, the bony registration, and the leg-alignment registration. The surgical plan includes planned values associated with the surgical parameters that are within the boundary values of the surgeon preferences. Determining the surgical plan may include automatically adjusting tibial coronal alignment, femoral coronal alignment, femoral flexion, femoral rotation, distal femoral resection height, proximal tibial resection height, and/or distal femoral resection height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: DEPUY IRELAND UNLIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: Adam Ryals, Daniel Girardeau-Montaut
  • Publication number: 20240382259
    Abstract: Systems and methods for bone surface geometry generation include a computing device. The computing device projects first geometry data indicative of a first bone-contacting surface of a first bone of a patient to a coordinate space of a second bone of the patient to generate projected geometry. The second bone includes a second bone-contacting surface that interfaces with the first bone-contacting surface. The computing device also maps the projected geometry to a plurality of poses in a range of motion of the first bone relative to the second bone using position data indicative of relative positions of the first bone and the second bone at the plurality of poses in the range of motion. The computing device further selects intersecting geometry from the mapped, projected geometry to generate second geometry data indicative of the second bone-contacting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Adam Ryals, Daniel Girardeau-Montaut
  • Publication number: 20240216064
    Abstract: Systems and methods for planning and assisting orthopaedic surgical procedures include a computer system and a robotic surgical device. The computer system receives multiple surgeon preferences, including target values and boundary values for surgical parameters of the orthopaedic surgical procedure. A surgeon uses the computer system to perform bony registration and leg-alignment registration for anatomy of a patient. The computer system determines a surgical plan for the orthopaedic surgical procedure based on the surgeon preferences, the bony registration, and the leg-alignment registration. The surgical plan includes planned values associated with the surgical parameters that are within the boundary values of the surgeon preferences. Determining the surgical plan may include automatically adjusting tibial coronal alignment, femoral coronal alignment, femoral flexion, femoral rotation, distal femoral resection height, proximal tibial resection height, and/or distal femoral resection height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Adam Ryals, Daniel Girardeau-Montaut