Patents by Inventor Bryan Griffiths
Bryan Griffiths 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).
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Patent number: 11737799Abstract: A bone repair system, kit and method for percutaneous repair of a bone segment containing a first bone segment and a second bone segment in a patient, each bone segment having a drill hole. The system comprises a longitudinal member configured to contact the first bone segment and the second bone segment and having at least one opening and cleats on the side adapted to contact the first bone segment and the second bone segment; a first fastener assembly configured to be disposed through the opening of the longitudinal member to hold the longitudinal member in place through the opening and the hole in the first bone segment; and a second fastener assembly configured to be disposed through the opening of the longitudinal member to hold the longitudinal member in place through the opening and the hole in the second bone segment.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignees: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Christopher A. Campbell, Christoph A. Roth, Bryan Griffiths, Mark Grady, Barry M. Fell, Peter W. Dillon, Donald R. Mackay, Randy S. Haluck
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Publication number: 20210322072Abstract: A bone repair system, kit and method for percutaneous repair of a bone segment containing a first bone segment and a second bone segment in a patient, each bone segment having a drill hole. The system comprises a longitudinal member configured to contact the first bone segment and the second bone segment and having at least one opening and cleats on the side adapted to contact the first bone segment and the second bone segment; a first fastener assembly configured to be disposed through the opening of the longitudinal member to hold the longitudinal member in place through the opening and the hole in the first bone segment; and a second fastener assembly configured to be disposed through the opening of the longitudinal member to hold the longitudinal member in place through the opening and the hole in the second bone segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Christopher A. CAMPBELL, Christoph A. ROTH, Bryan GRIFFITHS, Mark GRADY, Barry M. FELL, Peter W. DILLON, Donald R. MACKAY, Randy S. HALUCK
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Patent number: 11076900Abstract: A bone repair system, kit and method for percutaneous repair of a bone segment containing a first bone segment and a second bone segment in a patient, each bone segment having a drill hole. The system comprises a longitudinal member configured to contact the first bone segment and the second bone segment and having at least one opening and cleats on the side adapted to contact the first bone segment and the second bone segment; a first fastener assembly configured to be disposed through the opening of the longitudinal member to hold the longitudinal member in place through the opening and the hole in the first bone segment; and a second fastener assembly configured to be disposed through the opening of the longitudinal member to hold the longitudinal member in place through the opening and the hole in the second bone segment.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Christopher A. Campbell, Christoph A. Roth, Bryan Griffiths, Mark Grady, Barry M. Fell, Peter W. Dillon, Donald R. Mackay, Randy S. Haluck
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Publication number: 20200046148Abstract: A hanging and shipping support system and device is provided. The hanging and shipping support system includes a wall hanging, a hanging and shipping support device, and a packaging device. The wall hanging may include a front panel and a back panel. The hanging and shipping support device include a hanger support having a thickness and a hanger. The packaging device has a thickness that is substantially similar to the hanger support thickness. A hanging and shipping support device includes a hanging support having a thickness, a hanger, and a packaging device that is substantially similar to the thickness of the hanger support.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2018Publication date: February 13, 2020Applicant: Griffco Partners, Inc.Inventor: Bryan Griffith
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Publication number: 20190150993Abstract: A bone repair system, kit and method for percutaneous repair of a bone segment containing a first bone segment and a second bone segment in a patient, each bone segment having a drill hole. The system comprises a longitudinal member configured to contact the first bone segment and the second bone segment and having at least one opening and cleats on the side adapted to contact the first bone segment and the second bone segment; a first fastener assembly configured to be disposed through the opening of the longitudinal member to hold the longitudinal member in place through the opening and the hole in the first bone segment; and a second fastener assembly configured to be disposed through the opening of the longitudinal member to hold the longitudinal member in place through the opening and the hole in the second bone segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2019Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: Christopher A. CAMPBELL, Christoph A. ROTH, Bryan GRIFFITHS, Mark GRADY, Barry M. FELL, Peter W. DILLON, Donald R. MACKAY, Randy S. HALUCK
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Patent number: 10231767Abstract: A bone repair system, kit and method for percutaneous repair of a bone segment containing a first bone segment and a second bone segment in a patient, each bone segment having a drill hole. The system comprises a longitudinal member configured to contact the first bone segment and the second bone segment and having at least one opening and cleats on the side adapted to contact the first bone segment and the second bone segment; a first fastener assembly configured to be disposed through the opening of the longitudinal member to hold the longitudinal member in place through the opening and the hole in the first bone segment; and a second fastener assembly configured to be disposed through the opening of the longitudinal member to hold the longitudinal member in place through the opening and the hole in the second bone segment.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignees: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Christopher A. Campbell, Christoph A. Roth, Bryan Griffiths, Mark Grady, Barry M. Fell, Peter W. Dillon, Donald R. Mackay, Randy S. Haluck
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Patent number: 9381283Abstract: Provided, in one embodiment, is a vacuum wound dressing for covering a wound bed comprising: a wound contact layer comprising a fibrous blend or fibrous material that forms a cohesive gel when wetted by wound exudate; a source of vacuum situated to be separated from the wound bed by the wound contact layer; and a vacuum sealing layer covering the wound contact layer and adapted to retain relative vacuum in the wound contact layer, wherein (i) the dressing is essentially missing a non-gelling, foam layer in which the source of vacuum is situated or (ii) the vacuum sealing layer comprises as an outer layer a foam layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2011Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: CONVATEC TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Simon Adams, Stephen Bishop, Bryan Griffiths, Helen Shaw
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Patent number: 9326894Abstract: A material for use as a wound dressing, the material being in the form of a roll and comprising gel forming fibers and the material having lines of longitudinal stitching.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2014Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: Convatec Technologies, Inc.Inventors: June Michaela Gladman, Bryan Griffiths
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Patent number: 9078717Abstract: A bone screw driving system includes a screw having a head and a shaft extending from the head. The screw includes a stepped opening extending in the shaft that includes a first portion and a second portion having a greater cross-sectional dimension than the first portion. The bone screw driving system further includes a screw driver having a driver shaft that defines a tip configured to engage the screw head. The driver further includes a pin extending from the tip and sized to fit within the opening. The pin includes an abutment movable to a locked configuration in the second portion of the opening, wherein the abutment defines a cross-sectional dimension greater than that of the first portion of the opening.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2010Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Bryan Griffiths, Philip Watt
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Patent number: 8974508Abstract: Expandable fixation assemblies, expandable cranial fixation assemblies, and expandable intervertebral implant assemblies are provided for securing structures to bone and for securing bones and/or bone segments with respect to each other. An expansion member can be moved through at least a portion of an expandable fixation body, thereby causing expansion of the expandable fixation body, such that bone engagement features of the expandable fixation body engage surrounding structure, such as bone.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2010Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, LLCInventors: Kai Stephan, Bryan Griffiths, Samuel Leuenberger, Robert Schoutens, Marcello Memmolo, Daniela Pricope, Rainer Ponzer, André Schlienger
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Patent number: 8945220Abstract: An orthopedic tissue spacer comprising a body portion having first and second ends, an outer surface and a longitudinal axis, at least one of the ends configured to engage a first bone segment, wherein at least a portion of the body portion is flexible and the outer surface is configured to resist tissue adhesion thereto.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2011Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, LLCInventors: Bryan Griffiths, Ross J. Hamel
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Publication number: 20140277175Abstract: A bone repair system, kit and method for percutaneous repair of a bone segment containing a first bone segment and a second bone segment in a patient, each bone segment having a drill hole. The system comprises a longitudinal member configured to contact the first bone segment and the second bone segment and having at least one opening and cleats on the side adapted to contact the first bone segment and the second bone segment; a first fastener assembly configured to be disposed through the opening of the longitudinal member to hold the longitudinal member in place through the opening and the hole in the first bone segment; and a second fastener assembly configured to be disposed through the opening of the longitudinal member to hold the longitudinal member in place through the opening and the hole in the second bone segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventors: Christopher A. Campbell, Christoph A. Roth, Bryan Griffiths, Mark Grady, Barry M. Fell, Peter W. Dillon, Donald R. Mackay, Randy S. Haluck
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Publication number: 20140251194Abstract: A material for use as a wound dressing, the material being in the form of a roll and comprising gel forming fibers and the material having lines of longitudinal stitching.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2014Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: CONVATEC TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: June Michaela Gladman, Bryan Griffiths
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Patent number: 8691266Abstract: A material for use as a wound dressing, the material being in the form of a roll and comprising gel forming fibers and the material having lines of longitudinal stitching.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2006Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Convatec Technologies, Inc.Inventors: June Michaela Gladman, Bryan Griffiths
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Patent number: 8152834Abstract: A pair of forceps including first and second elongated members pivotally connected together. A handle and a head are defined at opposing ends of the first and second elongated members. In one preferred embodiment, a threaded cannula receiving chamber is disposed in the head, and the elongated members are separable via manipulation of the first and second elongated members with respect to each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2005Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Synthes USA, LLCInventors: Owen Carlos McGarity, Bryan Griffiths
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Publication number: 20120065602Abstract: Provided, in one embodiment, is a vacuum wound dressing for covering a wound bed comprising: a wound contact layer comprising a fibrous blend or fibrous material that forms a cohesive gel when wetted by wound exudate; a source of vacuum situated to be separated from the wound bed by the wound contact layer; and a vacuum sealing layer covering the wound contact layer and adapted to retain relative vacuum in the wound contact layer, wherein (i) the dressing is essentially missing a non-gelling, foam layer in which the source of vacuum is situated or (ii) the vacuum sealing layer comprises as an outer layer a foam layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicant: ConvaTec Technologies Inc.Inventors: Simon Adams, Stephen Bishop, Bryan Griffiths, Helen Shaw
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Patent number: 8110717Abstract: A body shaped wound dressing wherein the dressing is a knitted or woven garment comprising a cellulosic yarn, which garment has been carboxymethylated at least in parts of its wound contacting surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2006Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: ConvaTec Technologies Inc.Inventors: June Michaela Gladman, Bryan Griffiths
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Patent number: 8034037Abstract: Provided, in one embodiment, is a vacuum wound dressing for covering a wound bed comprising: a wound contact layer comprising a fibrous blend or fibrous material that forms a cohesive gel when wetted by wound exudate; a source of vacuum situated to be separated from the wound bed by the wound contact layer; and a vacuum sealing layer covering the wound contact layer and adapted to retain relative vacuum in the wound contact layer, wherein (i) the dressing is essentially missing a non-gelling, foam layer in which the source of vacuum is situated or (ii) the vacuum sealing layer comprises as an outer layer a foam layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2005Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: ConvaTec Technologies Inc.Inventors: Simon Adams, Stephen Bishop, Bryan Griffiths, Helen Shaw
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Publication number: 20110098760Abstract: An orthopedic tissue spacer comprising a body portion having first and second ends, an outer surface and a longitudinal axis, at least one of the ends configured to engage a first bone segment, wherein at least a portion of the body portion is flexible and the outer surface is configured to resist tissue adhesion thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2011Publication date: April 28, 2011Inventors: Bryan Griffiths, Ross J. Hamel
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Publication number: 20110046682Abstract: Expandable fixation assemblies, expandable cranial fixation assemblies, and expandable intervertebral implant assemblies are provided for securing structures to bone and for securing bones and/or bone segments with respect to each other. An expansion member can be moved through at least a portion of an expandable fixation body, thereby causing expansion of the expandable fixation body, such that bone engagement features of the expandable fixation body engage surrounding structure, such as bone.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2010Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: SYNTHES GMBH OR SYNTHES USA, LLCInventors: Kai Stephan, Bryan Griffiths, Samuel Leuenberger, Robert Schoutens, Marcello Memmolo, Daniela Pricope, Rainer Ponzer, Andre Schlienger