Patents by Inventor Claude Mathieu
Claude Mathieu 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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Publication number: 20200261244Abstract: An intervertebral implant includes a three-dimensional body and a securing plate. The three-dimensional body includes a front surface and a rear surface. The three-dimensional body further includes a plurality of boreholes for accommodating fixation elements. The intervertebral implant also includes a front plate disposed at the front surface of the three-dimensional body and has a plurality of boreholes. A securing plate can be fastened to the front plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2020Publication date: August 20, 2020Inventors: Beat Lechmann, Dominique Burkard, Christopher Marden John Cain, Claude Mathieu
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Patent number: 10660765Abstract: An intervertebral implant includes a three-dimensional body and a securing plate. The three-dimensional body includes a front surface and a rear surface. The three-dimensional body further includes a plurality of boreholes for accommodating fixation elements. The intervertebral implant also includes a front plate disposed at the front surface of the three-dimensional body and has a plurality of boreholes. A securing plate can be fastened to the front plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Beat Lechmann, Dominique Burkard, Christopher Marden John Cain, Claude Mathieu
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Publication number: 20200060844Abstract: The intervertebral implant is in the form of a three-dimensional structure (10) comprising (a) a top side (1) and an underside (2) which are designed to rest against the end plates of two adjacent vertebras, (b) a left side face (3) and a right side face (4), (c) a front face (5) and a rear face (6), (d) a horizontal center plane situated between the top side (1) and the underside (2), (e) a vertical center plane (8) situated between the left side face (3) and the right side face (8) and (0 a plurality of boreholes (9) passing through the implant structure (10) that are designed to receive longitudinal affixation elements (20), the axes (19) of said elements intersecting the horizontal center plane (7). At least one of the boreholes (9) is designed in a manner that the affixation element (10) received in it can be rigidly connected to the intervertebral implant. Said connection is implemented using a thread or by matching conical surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2019Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Claude Mathieu, Christopher Marden John Cain
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Patent number: 10492922Abstract: The intervertebral implant is in the form of a three-dimensional structure (10) comprising (a) a top side (1) and an underside (2) which are designed to rest against the end plates of two adjacent vertebras, (b) a left side face (3) and a right side face (4), (c) a front face (5) and a rear face (6), (d) a horizontal center plane situated between the top side (1) and the underside (2), (e) a vertical center plane (8) situated between the left side face (3) and the right side face (8) and (f) a plurality of boreholes (9) passing through the implant structure (10) that are designed to receive longitudinal affixation elements (20), the axes (19) of said elements intersecting the horizontal center plane (7). At least one of the boreholes (9) is designed in a manner that the affixation element (10) received in it can be rigidly connected to the intervertebral implant. Said connection is implemented using a thread or by matching conical surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2017Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Claude Mathieu, Christopher Marden John Cain
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Publication number: 20180344477Abstract: An intervertebral implant includes a three-dimensional body and a securing plate. The three-dimensional body includes a front surface and a rear surface. The three-dimensional body further includes a plurality of boreholes for accommodating fixation elements. The intervertebral implant also includes a front plate disposed at the front surface of the three-dimensional body and has a plurality of boreholes. A securing plate can be fastened to the front plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2018Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Beat Lechmann, Dominique Burkard, Christopher Marden John Cain, Claude Mathieu
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Patent number: 10064740Abstract: An intervertebral implant includes a three-dimensional body and a securing plate. The three-dimensional body includes a front surface and a rear surface. The three-dimensional body further includes a plurality of boreholes for accommodating fixation elements. The intervertebral implant also includes a front plate disposed at the front surface of the three-dimensional body and has a plurality of boreholes. A securing plate can be fastened to the front plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2015Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Depuy Synthes Products, LLCInventors: Beat Lechmann, Dominique Burkard, Christopher Marden John Cain, Claude Mathieu
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Patent number: 9918854Abstract: A method of aligning implant components includes placing a first implant component in bone, followed by: coupling a first intermediate member to the first implant component; coupling a first alignment member to the first intermediate member; rotating the members as a unit to place the first intermediate member in an alignment position; removing the first alignment member from the first intermediate member; coupling a second alignment member to a second intermediate member; coupling the second intermediate member to the first intermediate member and rotating the second alignment member and the second intermediate member as a unit relative to the first intermediate member to provide a desired orientation of the second intermediate member. An alignment system for aligning first and second members includes a first alignment member having an offset channel dimensioned to receive the first member, and a second alignment member having a channel dimensioned to receive the second member.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Henry Keith Bonin, Jr., David Edward Chreene, Alexander Iwan Seidl, Claude Mathieu, Daniel Zimmerman, Francis X. Mendoza
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Publication number: 20170143509Abstract: The intervertebral implant is in the form of a three-dimensional structure (10) comprising (a) a top side (1) and an underside (2) which are designed to rest against the end plates of two adjacent vertebras, (b) a left side face (3) and a right side face (4), (c) a front face (5) and a rear face (6), (d) a horizontal center plane situated between the top side (1) and the underside (2), (e) a vertical center plane (8) situated between the left side face (3) and the right side face (8) and (f) a plurality of boreholes (9) passing through the implant structure (10) that are designed to receive longitudinal affixation elements (20), the axes (19) of said elements intersecting the horizontal center plane (7). At least one of the boreholes (9) is designed in a manner that the affixation element (10) received in it can be rigidly connected to the intervertebral implant. Said connection is implemented using a thread or by matching conical surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2017Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: Claude Mathieu, Christopher Marden John Cain
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Patent number: 9572681Abstract: The intervertebral three-dimensional structure comprises a top side, an underside, a front face, a rear face, and a plurality of boreholes designed to receive affixation elements.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2011Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Claude Mathieu, Christopher Marden John Cain
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Patent number: 9463097Abstract: An intervertebral implant includes a three-dimensional body and a securing plate. The three-dimensional body includes a front surface and a rear surface. The three-dimensional body further includes a plurality of boreholes for accommodating fixation elements. The intervertebral implant also includes a front plate disposed at the front surface of the three-dimensional body and has a plurality of boreholes. A securing plate can be fastened to the front plate.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2014Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Beat Lechmann, Dominique Burkard, Christopher Marden John Cain, Claude Mathieu
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Patent number: 9271771Abstract: A device of performing osteosynthesis includes an osteosynthesis element, e.g., a bone plate, having an upper face, a lower face and an opening with a central axis linking the upper and lower faces. The opening receives a multi-axial pivotable insert for a longitudinal bone fixing element, such as a bone screw. The insert has a central passage with a longitudinal axis for housing the bone fixing element. The insert may be configured as a helical spring with an external sheath surface and an internal sheath surface that defines the central passage. When placed in the through hole, the insert is rotationally fixed relative to its longitudinal axis, but remains pivotally adjustable within the through hole relative to the osteosynthesis element.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2005Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Claude Mathieu, Robert Frigg, Rolf Schneider, Andreas Appenzeller
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Publication number: 20150320571Abstract: An intervertebral implant includes a three-dimensional body and a securing plate. The three-dimensional body includes a front surface and a rear surface. The three-dimensional body further includes a plurality of boreholes for accommodating fixation elements. The intervertebral implant also includes a front plate disposed at the front surface of the three-dimensional body and has a plurality of boreholes. A securing plate can be fastened to the front plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2015Publication date: November 12, 2015Inventors: Beat Lechmann, Dominique Burkard, Christopher Marden John Cain, Claude Mathieu
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Publication number: 20140243985Abstract: An intervertebral implant having a three-dimensional body (10) and a securing plate (1). The three-dimensional body (10) includes an upper side (1) and an underside (2) which are suitable for abutting the end plates of two adjacent vertebral bodies, a left side surface (3) and a right side surface (4), a front surface (5) and a rear surface (6), a horizontal middle plane (7) between the upper side (1) and the underside (2), and a vertical middle plane (12) extending from the front surface (5) to the rear surface (6). The three-dimensional body further includes a plurality of boreholes (9a) passing through the body (10), which are suitable for accommodating longitudinal fixation elements (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: DePuy Synthes Products, LLCInventors: Beat Lechmann, Dominique Burkard, Christopher Marden John Cain, Claude Mathieu
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Publication number: 20140222153Abstract: A method of aligning implant components includes placing a first implant component in bone, followed by: coupling a first intermediate member to the first implant component; coupling a first alignment member to the first intermediate member; rotating the members as a unit to place the first intermediate member in an alignment position; removing the first alignment member from the first intermediate member; coupling a second alignment member to a second intermediate member; coupling the second intermediate member to the first intermediate member and rotating the second alignment member and the second intermediate member as a unit relative to the first intermediate member to provide a desired orientation of the second intermediate member. An alignment system for aligning first and second members includes a first alignment member having an offset channel dimensioned to receive the first member, and a second alignment member having a channel dimensioned to receive the second member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventors: Henry Keith Bonin, JR., David Edward Chreene, Alexander Iwan Seidl, Claude Mathieu, Daniel Zimmerman, Francis X. Mendoza
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Patent number: 8764831Abstract: An intervertebral implant having a three-dimensional body and a securing plate. The intervertebral implant also includes a front plate (8) displaceably disposed as an insert with a front side of the three-dimensional body.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2010Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, LLCInventors: Beat Lechmann, Dominique Burkard, Chris M. J. Cain, Claude Mathieu
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Patent number: 8715354Abstract: An intervertebral implant includes a three-dimensional body and a securing plate. The three-dimensional body includes a front surface and a rear surface. The three-dimensional body further includes a plurality of boreholes for accommodating fixation elements. The intervertebral implant also includes a front plate disposed at the front surface of the three-dimensional body and having a plurality of boreholes. A securing plate can be fastened to the front plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2011Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, LLCInventors: Beat Lechmann, Dominique Burkard, Claude Mathieu, Christopher Marden John Cain
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Patent number: 8709085Abstract: An intervertebral implant includes a three-dimensional body and a securing plate. The three-dimensional body includes a front surface and a rear surface. The three-dimensional body further includes a plurality of boreholes for accommodating fixation elements. The intervertebral implant also includes a front plate disposed at the front surface of the three-dimensional body and having a plurality of boreholes. A securing plate can be fastened to the front plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2011Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, LLCInventors: Beat Lechmann, Dominique Burkard, Claude Mathieu, Christopher Marden John Cain
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Publication number: 20130274813Abstract: The device for performing osteosynthesis includes a fixation element, such as a bone plate having a bottom surface designed to bear against the bone, a top surface, and at least one through hole extending from the bottom surface to the top surface, the though hole having a central axis and configured and dimensioned to receive a multiaxially pivotal insert or bushing for a bone screw. A bushing insertable into the through hole, includes a central bore designed to receive a bone screw, the central bore having a longitudinal axis, and a peripheral outer surface designed to be in contact with the through hole. The bushing is configured and dimensioned to be radially compressible and radially expansible, and the cross section of the through hole, which is orthogonal to the central axis, is non-circular. The cross section of the bushing that is orthogonal to the longitudinal axis has a shape that corresponds substantially to the cross section of the through hole of the bone plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2013Publication date: October 17, 2013Inventors: Claude MATHIEU, Robert Frigg, Harald Saner
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Patent number: 8486118Abstract: A bone plate system includes (a) Bone Plate having a bottom surface for contacting bone, an upper surface and at least one through hole extending from the bottom surface to the upper surface, the through hole having a central axis and a cross-section that extends orthogonally to the central axis and is one of at least partially polygonal, at least partially prismatic, and at least partially elliptical; (b) Bushing within the through hole, Bushing including a central bore designed to receive a bone fixation element, a cross-section of Bushing orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of Bushing is shaped substantially the same as the cross-section of the through hole so that Bushing is secured against rotation about its longitudinal axis; and (c) at least one Bone Fixation Element having a portion for anchoring within bone, Bone Fixation Element configured and dimensioned for insertion into the central bore of Bushing.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2012Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Depuy Synthes Products, LLCInventors: Claude Mathieu, Robert Frigg, Harald Saner
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Publication number: 20120259371Abstract: A bone plate system includes (a) Bone Plate having a bottom surface for contacting bone, an upper surface and at least one through hole extending from the bottom surface to the upper surface, the through hole having a central axis and a cross-section that extends orthogonally to the central axis and is one of at least partially polygonal, at least partially prismatic, and at least partially elliptical; (b) Bushing within the through hole, Bushing including a central bore designed to receive a bone fixation element, a cross-section of Bushing orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of Bushing is shaped substantially the same as the cross-section of the through hole so that Bushing is secured against rotation about its longitudinal axis; and (c) at least one Bone Fixation Element having a portion for anchoring within bone, Bone Fixation Element configured and dimensioned for insertion into the central bore of Bushing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Inventors: Claude MATHIEU, Robert FRIGG, Harald SANER