Patents by Inventor Chris Major

Chris Major 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: 11819365
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for measuring the distance and/or depth to a target bone for surgery using a robotic surgical system. The surgical robot system may be configured to depict the distance from a guide tube of the robot to a target bone of a patient as a vector. The vector may represent a view of the guide tube when the guide tube's central axis is coincident with a line of intersection of two viewplanes of a 2D image of the target bone, for example, one viewplane being sagittal and one viewplane being axial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Crawford, Chris Major
  • Patent number: 11751950
    Abstract: Devices and methods for temporarily affixing a surgical apparatus to a bony structure. The temporary mount includes a base member having a top face configured to be impacted by an insertion device and a plurality of elongated prongs extending downwardly from the base member and configured to engage a bony structure. The prongs are separated a distance from one another, and the prongs are configured to move inwardly toward one another when driven downward into the bony structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Globus Medical Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Bartelme, Neil R. Crawford, Mitchell A. Foster, Chris Major, Nicholas Theodore
  • Patent number: 11628039
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a surgical robot system may include an end-effector element configured for controlled movement and positioning and tracking of surgical instruments and objects relative to an image of a patient's anatomical structure. In some embodiments the end-effector and instruments may be tracked by surgical robot system and displayed to a user. In some embodiments, tracking of a target anatomical structure and objects, both in a navigation space and an image space, may be provided by a dynamic reference base located at a position away from the target anatomical structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Globus Medical Inc.
    Inventors: Neil R. Crawford, Chris Major, Michael Bartelme, Nobert Johnson, Stephen Cicchini
  • Publication number: 20210121249
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a surgical robot system may include an end-effector element configured for controlled movement and positioning and tracking of surgical instruments and objects relative to an image of a patient's anatomical structure. In some embodiments the end-effector may be tracked by surgical robot system and displayed to a user. In some embodiments the end-effector element may be configured to restrict the movement of an instrument assembly in a guide tube. In some embodiments, the end-effector may contain structures to allow for magnetic coupling to a robot arm and/or wireless powering of the end-effector element. In some embodiments, tracking of a target anatomical structure and objects, both in a navigation space and an image space, may be provided by a dynamic reference base located at a position away from the target anatomical structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Neil R. Crawford, Nicholas A. Theodore, Mitchell Foster, Nobert Johnson, Timothy Moulton, Kevin Zhang, Jeffrey Forsyth, Chris Major, Robert LeBoeuf, David Cleary
  • Patent number: 10893912
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a surgical robot system may include an end-effector element configured for controlled movement and positioning and tracking of surgical instruments and objects relative to an image of a patient's anatomical structure. In some embodiments the end-effector may be tracked by surgical robot system and displayed to a user. In some embodiments the end-effector element may be configured to restrict the movement of an instrument assembly in a guide tube. In some embodiments, the end-effector may contain structures to allow for magnetic coupling to a robot arm and/or wireless powering of the end-effector element. In some embodiments, tracking of a target anatomical structure and objects, both in a navigation space and an image space, may be provided by a dynamic reference base located at a position away from the target anatomical structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Globus Medical Inc.
    Inventors: Neil R. Crawford, Nicholas A. Theodore, Mitchell Foster, Norbert Johnson, Timothy Moulton, Kevin Zhang, Jeffrey Forsyth, Chris Major, Robert LeBoeuf, David Cleary
  • Publication number: 20210000552
    Abstract: Devices and methods for temporarily affixing a surgical apparatus to a bony structure. The temporary mount includes a base member having a top face configured to be impacted by an insertion device and a plurality of elongated prongs extending downwardly from the base member and configured to engage a bony structure. The prongs are separated a distance from one another, and the prongs are configured to move inwardly toward one another when driven downward into the bony structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Michael Bartelme, Neil R. Crawford, Mitchell A. Foster, Chris Major, Nicholas Theodore
  • Publication number: 20200315737
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a surgical robot system may include an end-effector element configured for controlled movement and positioning and tracking of surgical instruments and objects relative to an image of a patient's anatomical structure. In some embodiments the end-effector and instruments may be tracked by surgical robot system and displayed to a user. In some embodiments, tracking of a target anatomical structure and objects, both in a navigation space and an image space, may be provided by a dynamic reference base located at a position away from the target anatomical structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Neil R. Crawford, Chris Major, Michael Bartelme, Nobert Johnson, Stephen Cicchini
  • Patent number: 10786313
    Abstract: Devices and methods for temporarily affixing a surgical apparatus to a bony structure. The temporary mount includes a base member having a top face configured to be impacted by an insertion device and a plurality of elongated prongs extending downwardly from the base member and configured to engage a bony structure. The prongs are separated a distance from one another, and the prongs are configured to move inwardly toward one another when driven downward into the bony structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Bartelme, Neil R. Crawford, Mitchell A. Foster, Chris Major, Nicholas Theodore
  • Publication number: 20200229888
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for measuring the distance and/or depth to a target bone for surgery using a robotic surgical system. The surgical robot system may be configured to depict the distance from a guide tube of the robot to a target bone of a patient as a vector. The vector may represent a view of the guide tube when the guide tube's central axis is coincident with a line of intersection of two viewplanes of a 2D image of the target bone, for example, one viewplane being sagittal and one viewplane being axial.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Neil Crawford, Chris Major
  • Patent number: 10709631
    Abstract: A compression garment for a neurological disorder includes a body portion and a pad. The body portion may be operable to wrap around a foot and the pad can attach to an inner surface of the body portion. The pad can include an outward protrusion and/or an inward recess. A guide sleeve may be dimensioned to wrap together with the body portion around the foot, the pad being disposable between the body portion and the guide sleeve. A first tensioning band may be attached onto to first and second locations of the body portion and be operable to secure opposing first and second portions of the inner surface of the body portion to secure the outward protrusion and/or recess of the pad against the abductor hallucis and flexor hallucis brevis muscles of the foot. The outward protrusion can include a receiver for the metatarsal head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: MEDI USA, L.P.
    Inventors: Kevin Larmer, Moses Lipshaw, Thomas Richardson, Karen Lynch, Glenn Anderson, Dean Bender, Chris Majors, Mary Sorg
  • Patent number: 10653497
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a surgical robot system may include an end-effector element configured for controlled movement and positioning and tracking of surgical instruments and objects relative to an image of a patient's anatomical structure. In some embodiments the end-effector and instruments may be tracked by surgical robot system and displayed to a user. In some embodiments, tracking of a target anatomical structure and objects, both in a navigation space and an image space, may be provided by a dynamic reference base located at a position away from the target anatomical structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil R. Crawford, Chris Major, Michael Bartelme, Nobert Johnson, Stephen Cicchini
  • Patent number: 10624710
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for measuring the distance and/or depth to a target bone for surgery using a robotic surgical system. The surgical robot system may be configured to depict the distance from a guide tube of the robot to a target bone of a patient as a vector. The vector may represent a view of the guide tube when the guide tube's central axis is coincident with a line of intersection of two viewplanes of a 2D image of the target bone, for example, one viewplane being sagittal and one viewplane being axial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Crawford, Chris Major
  • Publication number: 20180338800
    Abstract: Devices and methods for temporarily affixing a surgical apparatus to a bony structure. The temporary mount includes a base member having a top face configured to be impacted by an insertion device and a plurality of elongated prongs extending downwardly from the base member and configured to engage a bony structure. The prongs are separated a distance from one another, and the prongs are configured to move inwardly toward one another when driven downward into the bony structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Michael Bartelme, Neil R. Crawford, Mitchell A. Foster, Chris Major, Nicholas Theodore
  • Patent number: D857892
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Crawford, Jeff Forsyth, Chris Major, Andrew Berkowitz, Norbert Johnson
  • Patent number: D860446
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Crawford, Jeff Forsyth, Chris Major, Andrew Berkowitz, Norbert Johnson
  • Patent number: D860447
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Crawford, Jeff Forsyth, Chris Major, Andrew Berkowitz, Norbert Johnson
  • Patent number: D860448
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Crawford, Jeff Forsyth, Chris Major, Andrew Berkowitz, Norbert Johnson
  • Patent number: D864389
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Crawford, Jeff Forsyth, Chris Major, Andrew Berkowitz, Norbert Johnson
  • Patent number: D865172
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Crawford, Jeff Forsyth, Chris Major, Andrew Berkowitz, Norbert Johnson
  • Patent number: D865827
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Zhang, Gerd Schmieta, Chris Major, David Cleary