Patents by Inventor Christopher BALLOR

Christopher BALLOR 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).

  • Ultrasonic spinal surgery method and associated surgical instrument
    Patent number: 12011190
    Abstract: An elongate ultrasonic dissector-shaver probe has a laterally enlarged head extending distally and transversely from a distal end of a shaft and provided with sets of spiraling ribs. In a disc space preparation procedure, the probe is inserted into a spinal disc between two vertebral endplates, ultrasonic vibratory energy is conducted into the probe, and the probe is manipulated to move the laterally enlarged head in three spatial directions within the spinal disc to thereby disrupt and shred the spinal disc material into fragments extracted from the space, in part by suction and in part by using forceps to pull spinal disc fragments from the operative space or surgical site between the vertebral endplates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Misonix, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Theodore, Dan Voic, Paul Mikus, Christopher Ballor, Sharon Klugewicz
  • ULTRASONIC SPINAL SURGERY METHOD AND ASSOCIATED SURGICAL INSTRUMENT
    Publication number: 20220370094
    Abstract: An elongate ultrasonic dissector-shaver probe has a laterally enlarged head extending distally and transversely from a distal end of a shaft and provided with sets of spiraling ribs. In a disc space preparation procedure, the probe is inserted into a spinal disc between two vertebral endplates, ultrasonic vibratory energy is conducted into the probe, and the probe is manipulated to move the laterally enlarged head in three spatial directions within the spinal disc to thereby disrupt and shred the spinal disc material into fragments extracted from the space, in part by suction and in part by using forceps to pull spinal disc fragments from the operative space or surgical site between the vertebral endplates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Nicholas THEODORE, Dan VOIC, Paul MIKUS, Christopher BALLOR, Sharon KLUGEWICZ