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).
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Patent number: 11980430Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.Inventors: Neil R. Crawford, Nicholas A. Theodore, Mitchell Foster, Nobert Johnson, Timothy Moulton, Kevin Zhang, Jeffrey Forsyth, Chris Major, Robert LeBoeuf, David Cleary
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Patent number: 11819365Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.Inventors: Neil Crawford, Chris Major
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Patent number: 11751950Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Globus Medical Inc.Inventors: Michael Bartelme, Neil R. Crawford, Mitchell A. Foster, Chris Major, Nicholas Theodore
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Patent number: 11628039Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Globus Medical Inc.Inventors: Neil R. Crawford, Chris Major, Michael Bartelme, Nobert Johnson, Stephen Cicchini
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Publication number: 20210121249Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Neil R. Crawford, Nicholas A. Theodore, Mitchell Foster, Nobert Johnson, Timothy Moulton, Kevin Zhang, Jeffrey Forsyth, Chris Major, Robert LeBoeuf, David Cleary
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Patent number: 10893912Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 11, 2016Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: 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
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Publication number: 20210000552Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Michael Bartelme, Neil R. Crawford, Mitchell A. Foster, Chris Major, Nicholas Theodore
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Publication number: 20200315737Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Neil R. Crawford, Chris Major, Michael Bartelme, Nobert Johnson, Stephen Cicchini
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Patent number: 10786313Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.Inventors: Michael Bartelme, Neil R. Crawford, Mitchell A. Foster, Chris Major, Nicholas Theodore
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Publication number: 20200229888Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Neil Crawford, Chris Major
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Patent number: 10709631Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 23, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: MEDI USA, L.P.Inventors: Kevin Larmer, Moses Lipshaw, Thomas Richardson, Karen Lynch, Glenn Anderson, Dean Bender, Chris Majors, Mary Sorg
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Patent number: 10653497Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 10, 2016Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.Inventors: Neil R. Crawford, Chris Major, Michael Bartelme, Nobert Johnson, Stephen Cicchini
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Patent number: 10624710Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 4, 2016Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.Inventors: Neil Crawford, Chris Major
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Patent number: D857892Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2017Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.Inventors: Neil Crawford, Jeff Forsyth, Chris Major, Andrew Berkowitz, Norbert Johnson
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Patent number: D860446Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.Inventors: Neil Crawford, Jeff Forsyth, Chris Major, Andrew Berkowitz, Norbert Johnson
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Patent number: D860447Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.Inventors: Neil Crawford, Jeff Forsyth, Chris Major, Andrew Berkowitz, Norbert Johnson
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Patent number: D860448Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.Inventors: Neil Crawford, Jeff Forsyth, Chris Major, Andrew Berkowitz, Norbert Johnson
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Patent number: D864389Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2017Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.Inventors: Neil Crawford, Jeff Forsyth, Chris Major, Andrew Berkowitz, Norbert Johnson
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Patent number: D865172Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2017Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.Inventors: Neil Crawford, Jeff Forsyth, Chris Major, Andrew Berkowitz, Norbert Johnson
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Patent number: D865827Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Zhang, Gerd Schmieta, Chris Major, David Cleary