Patents by Inventor David Drucker
David Drucker 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: 9848888Abstract: Methods and apparatus for performing knee arthroplasty, including, but not limited to, bicruciate retaining knee arthroplasty, are described herein. Methods and apparatus for preparing a distal femur for a femoral implant as well as methods and apparatus for preparing a proximal tibia for a tibial implant are described. These methods and apparatus, in at least some embodiments and uses, facilitate decreasing the complexity of knee arthroplasty procedures such as bicruciate retaining procedures, while maintaining, if not improving on, the safety, accuracy and/or effectiveness of such procedures.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Zachary Christopher Wilkinson, Brian William McKinnon, David A. Drucker, Michael D. Ries
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Patent number: 9730705Abstract: Methods and apparatus for performing knee arthroplasty, including, but not limited to, bicruciate retaining knee arthroplasty, are described herein. Methods and apparatus for preparing a distal femur for a femoral implant as well as methods and apparatus for preparing a proximal tibia for a tibial implant are described. These methods and apparatus, in at least some embodiments and uses, facilitate decreasing the complexity of knee arthroplasty procedures such as bicruciate retaining procedures, while maintaining, if not improving on, the safety, accuracy and/or effectiveness of such procedures.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Richard Michael Smith, Zachary Christopher Wilkinson, Nathaniel Milton Lenz, Brian William McKinnon, David A. Drucker
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Publication number: 20150209053Abstract: Methods and apparatus for performing knee arthroplasty, including, but not limited to, bicruciate retaining knee arthroplasty, are described herein. Methods and apparatus for preparing a distal femur for a femora implant as well as methods and apparatus for preparing a proximal tibia for a tibial implant are described. These methods and apparatus, in at least some embodiments and uses, facilitate decreasing the complexity of knee arthroplasty procedures such as bicruciate retaining procedures, while maintaining, if not improving on, the safety, accuracy and or effectiveness of such procedures.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2015Publication date: July 30, 2015Applicant: SMITH & NEPHEW, INC.Inventors: Zachary Christopher Wilkinson, Brian William McKinnon, David A. Drucker, Michael D. Ries
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Patent number: 8998911Abstract: Methods and apparatus for performing knee arthroplasty, including, but not limited to, bicruciate retaining knee arthroplasty, are described herein. Methods and apparatus for preparing a distal femur for a femoral implant as well as methods and apparatus for preparing a proximal tibia for a tibial implant are described. These methods and apparatus, in at least some embodiments and uses, facilitate decreasing the complexity of knee arthroplasty procedures such as bicruciate retaining procedures, while maintaining, if not improving on, the safety, accuracy and/or effectiveness of such procedures.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2010Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Zachary Christopher Wilkinson, Brian W. McKinnon, David A. Drucker, Michael D. Ries
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Publication number: 20140309640Abstract: Methods and apparatus for performing knee arthroplasty, including, but not limited to, bicruciate retaining knee arthroplasty, are described herein. Methods and apparatus for preparing a distal femur for a femoral implant as well as methods and apparatus for preparing a proximal tibia for a tibial implant are described. These methods and apparatus, in at least some embodiments and uses, facilitate decreasing the complexity of knee arthroplasty procedures such as bicruciate retaining procedures, while maintaining, if not improving on, the safety, accuracy and/or effectiveness of such procedures.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Richard Michael Smith, Zachary Christopher Wilkinson, Nathaniel Milton Lenz, Brian William McKinnon, David A. Drucker
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Patent number: 8728086Abstract: Methods and apparatus for performing knee arthroplasty, including, but not limited to, bicruciate retaining knee arthroplasty, are described herein. Methods and apparatus for preparing a distal femur for a femoral implant as well as methods and apparatus for preparing a proximal tibia for a tibial implant are described. These methods and apparatus, in at least some embodiments and uses, facilitate decreasing the complexity of knee arthroplasty procedures such as bicruciate retaining procedures, while maintaining, if not improving on, the safety, accuracy and/or effectiveness of such procedures.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2010Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Richard Michael Smith, Zachary Christopher Wilkinson, Nathaniel Milton Lenz, Brian W. McKinnon, David A. Drucker
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Publication number: 20100331991Abstract: Methods and apparatus for performing knee arthroplasty, including, but not limited to, bicruciate retaining knee arthroplasty, are described herein. Methods and apparatus for preparing a distal femur for a femoral implant as well as methods and apparatus for preparing a proximal tibia for a tibial implant are described. These methods and apparatus, in at least some embodiments and uses, facilitate decreasing the complexity of knee arthroplasty procedures such as bicruciate retaining procedures, while maintaining, if not improving on, the safety, accuracy and/or effectiveness of such procedures.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Inventors: Zachary Christopher Wilkinson, Brian W. McKinnon, David A. Drucker, Michael D. Ries
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Publication number: 20100331848Abstract: Methods and apparatus for performing knee arthroplasty, including, but not limited to, bicruciate retaining knee arthroplasty, are described herein. Methods and apparatus for preparing a distal femur for a femoral implant as well as methods and apparatus for preparing a proximal tibia for a tibial implant are described. These methods and apparatus, in at least some embodiments and uses, facilitate decreasing the complexity of knee arthroplasty procedures such as bicruciate retaining procedures, while maintaining, if not improving on, the safety, accuracy and/or effectiveness of such procedures.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Inventors: Richard Michael Smith, Zachary Christopher Wilkinson, Nathaniel Milton Lenz, Brian W. McKinnon, David A. Drucker
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Publication number: 20070050184Abstract: To create an audio personal newspaper, descriptive information about newspaper articles (such as subject matter, author, source) is extracted from newspaper articles and the text of the newspaper articles is converted into audio files so the user can listen to the content of the newspaper articles. The audio newspaper can be personalized by compiling only the articles matching a user's preferences for subject matter, author, source, and the like. In some embodiments, the audio newspaper may be stored in a data file, which may have advertisements appended to it and which may be stored as a single file so as to prevent the user from skipping over advertisements.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2006Publication date: March 1, 2007Inventors: David Drucker, Marcus Heth, Xinyu Huang
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Publication number: 20060026136Abstract: A method for generating a title report for a target real estate parcel includes the steps of gathering data records pertaining to real estate parcels from a plurality of disparate sources, storing the gathered data records in a common format within a computer database, indexing the commonly formatted data records within the computer database to facilitate searching, searching the indexed data records within the computer database for data records pertaining to a target real estate parcel, selecting at least one record of data pertaining to the target real estate parcel, electronically abstracting pre-selected data directly into an associated file while simultaneously viewing said record and generating a title report containing the pre-selected data in a predefined format.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2004Publication date: February 2, 2006Inventors: David Drucker, William Welge
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Publication number: 20030154267Abstract: A storage area network has one or more digital data processors, e.g., hosts, in communication with one or more storage devices. At least a selected one of the hosts has an operating system in which a storage device must be claimed before the storage device can be accessed by applications programs executing on that host. The improvement is characterized by a selectively actuable filter, e.g., loaded with the selected host operating system, that when downloaded and actuated to a host intervenes to block claiming of one or more selected storage devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2001Publication date: August 14, 2003Inventors: Barbara J. Camacho, Clement Lambert Dickey, Roman David Drucker, Douglas Paul Dunham, Tina Lynn Dunton, Nancy Lott Hobbs, John Earle Lindley
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Patent number: 5571198Abstract: An improvement in an acetabular cup component of a prosthetic hip implant in which an acetabular shell receives a bearing member within the interior of the acetabular shell and has at least one bone screw hole, the improvement enabling the interoperative selection of implanting the acetabular shell without the employment of a bone screw or with the employment of at least one bone screw for assisting securement of the acetabular shell within the natural bone at the implant site, the improvement including a plug for seating in the bone screw hole to close the bone screw hole, the plug including a fastener arrangement for engaging the acetabular shell to fasten the plug within the bone screw hole, and a sealing arrangement for engaging the acetabular shell essentially to seal the bone screw hole against the migration of debris from the bearing member through the bone screw hole, the fastener arrangement including an operator arrangement for being selectively operated from the interior of the acetabular shell toType: GrantFiled: January 21, 1994Date of Patent: November 5, 1996Assignee: David A. DruckerInventors: David A. Drucker, Robert G. Collins, Nicholas N. G. Dong
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Patent number: D433391Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 1999Date of Patent: November 7, 2000Inventor: David Drucker