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: 10080615
    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 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Bartelme, Neil R. Crawford, Mitchell A. Foster, Chris Major, Nicholas Theodore
  • Publication number: 20170273851
    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: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: MEDI USA, L.P.
    Inventors: Kevin LARMER, Moses LIPSHAW, Thomas RICHARDSON, Karen LYNCH, Glenn ANDERSON, Dean BENDER, Chris MAJORS, Mary SORG
  • Publication number: 20170071691
    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: November 4, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Neil Crawford, Chris Major
  • Publication number: 20170042620
    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 12, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Michael Bartelme, Neil R. Crawford, Mitchell A. Foster, Chris Major, Nicholas Theodore
  • Publication number: 20160278875
    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: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: NEIL R. CRAWFORD, CHRIS MAJOR, MICHAEL BARTELME, NOBERT JOHNSON, STEPHEN CICCHINI
  • Publication number: 20160220320
    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: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    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: D809041
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Zhang, Gerd Schmieta, Chris Major, David Cleary