Patents by Inventor Brice KRIER

Brice KRIER 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: 10575881
    Abstract: The self-locking screwdriver includes a guide tube inside which a clamping rod is guided and rotatably driven, one end of which is provided with a cavity which allows the rotational drive and tightening of an anchoring screw, ensuring the immobilization of an orthopedic implant against an osseous body of an individual, the screwdriver including, on the one hand, between The guide tube and the clamping rod, a blocking system cooperating with the guide tube in order to prevent the latter from being loosened from the orthopedic implant when the anchoring screw is tightened and, on the other hand, on the outer periphery of the guide tube, a gripping wheel for locking and/or unlocking the blocking system and the rotational drive of the guide tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: CLARIANCE
    Inventors: Brice Krier, Yannick Pontois
  • Patent number: 10188430
    Abstract: A discontinuously double-threaded bone screw includes a drive head and anchoring body consisting of a cylindro-conical core over which extend at least two cylindro-conical threads, the anchoring body including anchoring portions of different profiles, ensuring an anchoring corresponding to different bone hardnesses and strengths, the anchoring body including, below the drive head, a first anchoring portion with a conical core and two threads with cylindrical profile and identical pitch, a second anchoring portion with a cylindrical core and a single cylindrical thread over ¼ turn, a third anchoring portion with a cylindrical core and two threads with cylindrical profile over ½ turn, a fourth anchoring portion including a cylindrical core and a single thread with cylindrical profile n turn based on total length of the bone screw, and a fifth anchoring portion including a conical core and two threads with conical profile forming the tip of the bone screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: CLARIANCE
    Inventors: Bruno Sauvage, Brice Krier, Guy Viart, Nicolas Virgaux, Pascal Rokegem, Andrew Clavenna
  • Patent number: 9872687
    Abstract: The nucleotomy device makes it possible to produce a nuclear space Es in an intervertebral disc Di using a transosseous approach previously pierced in the body of a vertebra Va. The device includes a tool holder (2) provided with first connection elements (3) ensuring the placement of an electric rotary driving motor (4), second connection elements (5) for the placement of a blade cutting tool (6), driving elements (7) imparting rotational and longitudinal translational movements to the cutting tool (6), and injection and suction elements (8) making it possible to evacuate the debris from the nucleus resulting from cutting when it is formed inside the intervertebral disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: CLARIANCE
    Inventors: Alain Tornier, Guy Viart, Jean Yves Leroy, Adrien Billon, Brice Krier, Sebastien Shuller, Afshin Gangi, Orlando Ortiz
  • Publication number: 20170333093
    Abstract: The self-locking screwdriver includes a guide tube inside which a clamping rod is guided and rotatably driven, one end of which is provided with a cavity which allows the rotational drive and tightening of an anchoring screw, ensuring the immobilization of an orthopedic implant against an osseous body of an individual, the screwdriver including, on the one hand, between The guide tube and the clamping rod, a blocking system cooperating with the guide tube in order to prevent the latter from being loosened from the orthopedic implant when the anchoring screw is tightened and, on the other hand, on the outer periphery of the guide tube, a gripping wheel for locking and/or unlocking the blocking system and the rotational drive of the guide tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Brice KRIER, Yannick PONTOIS
  • Publication number: 20170319251
    Abstract: The secured guiding device for positioning and guiding a bone anchoring screw during a surgical procedure according to the present invention, includes a guide pin having a deformable bifid free end which is elastically deformable and consists of two blades having, on the one hand, a first so-called “closed” configuration obtained, for example, by a manual stress so as to position the blades in the prolongation of the longitudinal axis of the guide pin so that the latter can be introduced into a guide tube for its positioning at the surgical site and, on the other hand, a second so-called “open” configuration so as to position the blades in two opposite directions and substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the guide pin when the blades are outside the guide tube in order to provide a bone support during the positioning of the anchoring screw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Guy VIART, Jean Yves LEROY, Brice KRIER, Sebastien SHULLER
  • Patent number: 9743962
    Abstract: The gripping device (1) enables the introduction and attachment of a set screw (101) within a U-shaped link connector (102) of a polyaxial or monoaxial pedicle screw (103) to immobilize a connecting rod (104) of a osteosynthesis device (100), and includes a locking element (2) which is supported against the link connector (102) making it possible to ensure concentricity between the principal axes of the gripping device (1) and those of the link connector (102) and to ensure that the connecting rod (104) is kept on the inside of the link connector (102); and an element for releasing (3) the gripping device (1) after establishing and screwing the set screws (101) inside the link connector (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: CLARIANCE
    Inventors: Guy Viart, Brice Krier, Jean Yves Leroy, Nicolas Virgaux, Jean Paul Steib, Sebastien Schuller
  • Publication number: 20170135730
    Abstract: A discontinuously double-threaded bone screw includes a drive head and anchoring body consisting of a cylindro-conical core over which extend at least two cylindro-conical threads, the anchoring body including anchoring portions of different profiles, ensuring an anchoring corresponding to different bone hardnesses and strengths, the anchoring body including, below the drive head, a first anchoring portion with a conical core and two threads with cylindrical profile and identical pitch, a second anchoring portion with a cylindrical core and a single cylindrical thread over ¼ turn, a third anchoring portion with a cylindrical core and two threads with cylindrical profile over ½ turn, a fourth anchoring portion including a cylindrical core and a single thread with cylindrical profile over n turn based on total length of the bone screw, and a fifth anchoring portion including a conical core and two threads with conical profile forming the tip of the bone screw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Bruno SAUVAGE, Brice KRIER, Guy VIART, Nicolas VIRGAUX, Pascal ROKEGEM, Andrew CLAVENNA
  • Publication number: 20170027612
    Abstract: The gripping device (1) enables the introduction and attachment of a set screw (101) within a U-shaped link connector (102) of a polyaxial or monoaxial pedicle screw (103) to immobilize a connecting rod (104) of a osteosynthesis device (100), and includes a locking element (2) which is supported against the link connector (102) making it possible to ensure concentricity between the principal axes of the gripping device (1) and those of the link connector (102) and to ensure that the connecting rod (104) is kept on the inside of the link connector (102); and an element for releasing (3) the gripping device (1) after establishing and screwing the set screws (101) inside the link connector (102).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Guy VIART, Brice KRIER, Jean Yves LEROY, Nicolas VIRGAUX, Jean Paul STEIB, Sebastien SCHULLER
  • Patent number: 9119637
    Abstract: The drilling device is composed of an articulated drill (1) provided with a metal tube (10) including, along its longitudinal axis XX?, and at one of its ends, fixing elements (11) that cooperate with a device (2) for driving it in an oscillatory movement, while the other end includes a profile (12) with a succession of alternately concave and convex loops (13) ensuring the deformation of the profile along a radius of curvature r, and at least one series of teeth (15, 16) with cutting edges (17, 18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: CLARIANCE
    Inventors: Alain Tornier, Guy Viart, Jean Yves Leroy, Brice Krier, Adrien Billon
  • Publication number: 20140025079
    Abstract: The nucleotomy device makes it possible to produce a nuclear space Es in an intervertebral disc Di using a transosseous approach previously pierced in the body of a vertebra Va. The device includes a tool holder (2) provided with first connection elements (3) ensuring the placement of an electric rotary driving motor (4), second connection elements (5) for the placement of a blade cutting tool (6), driving elements (7) imparting rotational and longitudinal translational movements to the cutting tool (6), and injection and suction elements (8) making it possible to evacuate the debris from the nucleus resulting from cutting when it is formed inside the intervertebral disc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Alain TORNIER, Guy VIART, Jean Yves LEROY, Adrien BILLON, Brice KRIER, Sebastien SHULLER, Afshin GANGI, Orlando ORTIZ