Patents by Inventor C. Tang

C. Tang 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).

  • Surgical constructs with collapsing suture loop and methods for securing tissue
    Patent number: 9737293
    Abstract: Surgical constructs and methods are provided for securing soft tissue to bone. One exemplary embodiment of a construct is formed from a suture filament and includes two terminal ends of filament and an intermediate portion disposed along at least a portion of a length extending between the terminal ends. The construct can have a first terminal end that is the first terminal end of the filament, and a second terminal end that includes a loop. The loop can be formed by disposing the second terminal end of the filament within a volume of a portion of the intermediate portion of the filament. In some disclosed methods, both terminal ends of the filament can be passed through tissue when performing soft tissue repairs. Various other embodiments of constructs and methods are provided, including constructs having two or more filaments associated with an anchor and methods of using such constructs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: MEDOS INTERNATIONAL SÀRL
    Inventors: Mehmet Ziya Sengun, Howard C. Tang, Gregory R. Whittaker
  • Biceps repair device
    Patent number: 9693856
    Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for anchoring a ligament or tendon to bone. In general, various inserter tools are provided for simultaneously delivering an expandable sheath and an expander into bone. With both components of the implant mounted on the same tool, the sheath and a ligament can be advanced into a bone hole and the expander, which trails behind the sheath during delivery of the sheath, can be advanced into the sheath to expand the sheath and anchor the sheath and ligament within the bone hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventors: Mehmet Z. Sengun, Benjamin Cleveland, David R. Diduch, Mark H. Getelman, James J. Mahoney, Jr., Jacob A. Marks, Gerome Miller, Matthew J. Ravenscroft, Howard C. Tang, Gregory R. Whittaker
  • OPHTHALMIC LENS CENTRING-BLOCKING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20170163857
    Abstract: Disclosed is a centering-blocking apparatus (1) including: a frame (10); an ophthalmic lens holder (20); a blocking unit (30) suitable for receiving a blocking accessory (200) with a view to depositing it on the ophthalmic lens; and a centering unit (40) suitable for revealing a reference system of the ophthalmic lens. According to an embodiment, the blocking unit is fixedly mounted on the frame whereas the holder is movably mounted on the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: David C. TANG, Guilhem ESCALIER, Stephane BOUTINON, Michel NAUCHE, Léonard HARTMANN
  • Placeholder management in an activity manager in a collaborative computing environment
    Patent number: 9652725
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for placeholder management in a unified activity manager in a collaborative computing environment. A method for managing placeholders in a unified activity manager in a collaborative environment can include the step of inserting a placeholder in an activity in lieu of a specified collaborator, resource, or event. The inserting step can include describing a type of resource without specifying an identity of an actual resource; and, inserting the described type in the placeholder. The inserting step also can include describing a type of event without specifying an identity of an actual event; and, inserting the described type in the placeholder. The inserting step also can include describing a type of collaborator without specifying an identity of an actual collaborator; and, inserting the described type in the placeholder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Muller, Daniel M. Gruen, Thomas P. Moran, John C. Tang
  • Rapid and prolonged immunologic-therapeutic
    Patent number: 9605275
    Abstract: The present invention shows that intranasal administration of E1/E3-defective adenovirus particles may confer rapid and broad protection against viral and bacterial pathogens in a variety of disease settings. Protective responses lasted for many weeks in a single-dose regimen in animal models. When a pathogen-derived antigen gene was inserted into the E1/E3-defective adenovirus genome, the antigen-induced protective immunity against the specific pathogen was elicited before the adenovirus-mediated protective response declined away, thus conferring rapid, prolonged, and seamless protection against pathogens. In addition to E1/E3-defective adenovirus, other bioengineered non-replicating vectors encoding pathogen-derived antigens may also be developed into a new generation of rapid and prolonged immunologic-therapeutic (RAPIT).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: ALTIMMUNE INC.
    Inventor: De-Chu C. Tang
  • Impromptu Community Streamer
    Publication number: 20170054773
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for streaming an impromptu community are described herein. In one example, a system for streaming impromptu communities includes a data storage device, a community analyzer, and a publisher. In an example, the data storage device can store a number of incoming data sets, wherein each data set identifies a time and location for the origin of the data, a media instance, and an identification of an origin device or origin user. In an example, the community analyzer can operate from the data storage device to use a processor in order to calculate an IC boundary and generate an impromptu community (IC) indicator based on the proximity and temporality of the number of incoming data sets. In an example, the processor can modify the number of data sets to include the IC indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gina D. Venolia, John C. Tang, Kori Inkpen, William A. Hamilton
  • SURGICAL FILAMENT SNARE ASSEMBLIES
    Publication number: 20170000479
    Abstract: A surgical filament snare assembly including an anchor capable of being fixated in bone and having a filament engagement feature. A first filament has a noose on a first portion of at least a first limb and has a second portion connected to the filament engagement feature of the anchor. Preferably, at least one free filament limb, which in some embodiments is a length of the first filament and in other embodiments is a second filament, is capable of being passed through tissue to be repaired and has at least one end passable through the noose to enable incremental tensioning of the tissue after the anchor is fixated in bone. The noose strangulates the free filament limb when tension is applied to at least one of the free filament limb and the noose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Mehmet Ziya Sengun, Howard C. Tang, David B. Spenciner, Gregory R. Whittaker, Gerome Miller
  • Surgical filament snare assemblies
    Patent number: 9532778
    Abstract: A surgical filament snare assembly including an anchor capable of being fixated in bone and having a filament engagement feature. A first filament has a noose on a first portion of at least a first limb and has a second portion connected to the filament engagement feature of the anchor. Preferably, at least one free filament limb, which in some embodiments is a length of the first filament and in other embodiments is a second filament, is capable of being passed through tissue to be repaired and has at least one end passable through the noose to enable incremental tensioning of the tissue after the anchor is fixated in bone. The noose strangulates the free filament limb when tension is applied to at least one of the free filament limb and the noose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: MEDOS INTERNATIONAL SÀRL
    Inventors: Mehmet Ziya Sengun, Howard C. Tang, David B. Spenciner, Gregory R. Whittaker, Gerome Miller
  • PROXY FOR ASYNCHRONOUS MEETING PARTICIPATION
    Publication number: 20160350724
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to enabling a lightweight way of recording and sharing video messages intended to provide input to a future meeting that cannot be personally attended. A person who cannot attend the meeting pre-records their thoughts and remarks for the meeting as video clips for presentation at the meeting. A physical device with at least a display is presented at the meeting. The physically present participants can play the pre-recorded clips on the device. Video of participants' responses to the clips is recorded and made available so that the represented attendee can view the participants' responses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: John C. Tang, Aaron Hoff, Kori Inkpen Quinn, Paul Johns, Asta Roseway, Chen Zhao, Xiang Cao, Jennifer Marlow
  • Methods for passing multiple sutures through tissue
    Patent number: 9498208
    Abstract: Methods for passing multiple sutures through tissue are provided herein. In particular, the methods described herein allow multiple sutures to be passed through tissue without removing a suture passing instrument from a patient's body. In one embodiment, a method for passing a suture through tissue is provided that includes loading first and second suture limbs into a suture passing instrument, positioning the instrument within a patient's body, actuating the instrument to pass a portion of the first suture limb through the tissue, pulling the first suture limb through the tissue, pulling the second suture limb to reload the suture passing instrument without removing the instrument from the patient's body, actuating the instrument a second time to pass a portion of the second suture limb through the tissue, and pulling the second suture limb through the tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: MEDOS INTERNATIONAL SARL
    Inventors: John R. Cournoyer, Howard C. Tang
  • Biceps Repair Device
    Publication number: 20160310260
    Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for anchoring a ligament or tendon to bone. In general, various inserter tools are provided for simultaneously delivering an expandable sheath and an expander into bone. With both components of the implant mounted on the same tool, the sheath and a ligament can be advanced into a bone hole and the expander, which trails behind the sheath during delivery of the sheath, can be advanced into the sheath to expand the sheath and anchor the sheath and ligament within the bone hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Mehmet Z. Sengun, Benjamin Cleveland, David R. Diduch, Mark H. Getelman, James J. Mahoney, Jr., Jacob A. Marks, Gerome Miller, Matthew J. Ravenscroft, Howard C. Tang, Gregory R. Whittaker
  • Proxy for asynchronous meeting participation
    Patent number: 9471902
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to enabling a lightweight way of recording and sharing video messages intended to provide input to a future meeting that cannot be personally attended. A person who cannot attend the meeting pre-records their thoughts and remarks for the meeting as video clips for presentation at the meeting. A physical device with at least a display is presented at the meeting. The physically present participants can play the pre-recorded clips on the device. Video of participants' responses to the clips is recorded and made available so that the represented attendee can view the participants' responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Hoff, Kori Inkpen Quinn, Paul Johns, Asta Roseway, Chen Zhao, Xiang Cao, Jennifer Marlow, John C. Tang
  • POLYMERS, HYDROGELS, AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20160280827
    Abstract: Described herein are polymers, polymeric gels, or a composition thereof, for drug delivery. The polymers, which include boronic-acid containing moieties (e.g., and polyol-containing moieties (e.g., are prepared by free-radical polymerization and can self-assemble into polymeric gels such as hydrogels. Also provided are methods or preparing the polymers, kits involving the polymers and/or polymeric gels or a composition thereof, for use as materials or delivery applications of an agent to a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Daniel Griffith Anderson, Eric Andrew Appel, Yizhou Dong, Robert S. Langer, Benjamin C. Tang, Omid Veiseh, Weiheng Wang, Matthew J. Webber, Kun Xue
  • FREEWHEELING UNICYCLE
    Publication number: 20160185417
    Abstract: The current document is directed to a two-wheeled unicycle that features bicycle-like pedals and a freewheeling mechanism to allow a rider to coast while the unicycle moves forward. In one implementation, he pedals are affixed to a horizontal drive shaft that rotates with respect to the wheels of the two-wheeled unicycle via two ball bearings. The horizontal drive shaft transfers rotational force through a ratchet-based, freewheeling mechanism to a larger-diameter cylindrical shaft to which the two wheels are affixed. The freewheeling mechanism transfers forward pedaling motion to the wheels. However, the wheels can rotate freely in a forward direction even when the pedals are maintained in a fixed orientation with respect to the surface on which the unicycle is traveling or another fixed reference point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventor: Gordon C. Tang
  • VACCINE AND DRUG DELIVERY BY INTRANASAL APPLICATION OF VECTOR AND VECTOR EXTRACTS
    Publication number: 20160175428
    Abstract: Disclosed and claimed is a method of non-invasive immunization in an animal and/or a method of inducing a systemic immune response or systemic therapeutic response to a gene product. The skin of the animal is contacted with a non-replicative vector chosen from the group of bacterium, virus, and fungus, wherein the vector comprises and expresses a nucleic acid molecule encoding the gene product, in an amount effective to induce the response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: De-Chu C. Tang, Zhongkai Shi, Kent Rigby van Kampen
  • Methods for Passing Multiple Sutures Through Tissue
    Publication number: 20160135804
    Abstract: Methods for passing multiple sutures through tissue are provided herein. In particular, the methods described herein allow multiple sutures to be passed through tissue without removing a suture passing instrument from a patient's body. In one embodiment, a method for passing a suture through tissue is provided that includes loading first and second suture limbs into a suture passing instrument, positioning the instrument within a patient's body, actuating the instrument to pass a portion of the first suture limb through the tissue, pulling the first suture limb through the tissue, pulling the second suture limb to reload the suture passing instrument without removing the instrument from the patient's body, actuating the instrument a second time to pass a portion of the second suture limb through the tissue, and pulling the second suture limb through the tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: John R. Cournoyer, Howard C. Tang
  • Biceps Tenodesis Implants and Delivery Tools
    Publication number: 20160113643
    Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for anchoring a ligament or tendon to bone. In one embodiment, a surgical implant is provided having a sheath and an expander that is received within the sheath. Various delivery tools, including a sheath inserter and a driver, are also provided. In use, the sheath inserter can be used to position a tendon within a prepared bone hole, and it can be used to deliver the sheath with a guidewire coupled thereto into the bone hole. The driver can be provided for delivering the expander into the sheath. A loader can optionally be used to load the driver and expander onto the guidewire coupled to the implanted sheath.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: David R. Diduch, Mark H. Getelman, Jacob A. Marks, Gerome Miller, Matthew J. Ravenscroft, Mehmet Z. Sengun, Howard C. Tang, Gregory R. Whittaker
  • Biceps Tenodesis Implants and Delivery Tools
    Publication number: 20160113757
    Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for anchoring a ligament or tendon to bone. In one embodiment, a surgical implant is provided having a sheath and an expander that is received within the sheath. Various delivery tools, including a sheath inserter and a driver, are also provided. In use, the sheath inserter can be used to position a tendon within a prepared bone hole, and it can be used to deliver the sheath with a guidewire coupled thereto into the bone hole. The driver can be provided for delivering the expander into the sheath. A loader can optionally be used to load the driver and expander onto the guidewire coupled to the implanted sheath.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: David R. Diduch, Mark H. Getelman, Gerome Miller, Jacob A. Marks, Matthew J. Ravenscroft, Mehmet Z. Sengun, Howard C. Tang, Gregory R. Whittaker
  • Biceps Tenodesis Implants and Delivery Tools
    Publication number: 20160113756
    Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for anchoring a ligament or tendon to bone. In one embodiment, a surgical implant is provided having a sheath and an expander that is received within the sheath. Various delivery tools, including a sheath inserter and a driver, are also provided. In use, the sheath inserter can be used to position a tendon within a prepared bone hole, and it can be used to deliver the sheath with a guidewire coupled thereto into the bone hole. The driver can be provided for delivering the expander into the sheath. A loader can optionally be used to load the driver and expander onto the guidewire coupled to the implanted sheath.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: David R. Diduch, Mark H. Getelman, Jacob A. Marks, Gerome Miller, Matthew J. Ravenscroft, Mehmet Z. Sengun, Howard C. Tang, Paul P. Weitzel, Gregory R. Whittaker
  • Gear strap
    Patent number: D796846
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Inventor: Tim C. Tang