Patents by Inventor Eric Kennedy
Eric Kennedy 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: 20250177202Abstract: An apparatus includes a body, and anchoring feature, and a guide feature. The body is sized and configured to be positioned on an eye of a patient. The anchoring feature is configured to secure the body to the eye of the patient. The guide feature is configured to guide a cannula into a scleral incision formed in the eye of the patient along a path that is substantially tangential relative to the eye of the patient. The guide feature is sized and configured to allow the cannula to pivot laterally through a range of angular motion at the scleral incision.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2024Publication date: June 5, 2025Inventors: Thomas E. Meyer, Mark Hedgeland, Benjamin Ko, Thomas Gernetzke, Olivia Enneking, Eric Kennedy, Robert Roth, Michael Auld, Jacob Schubert, Samuel Ridgley
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Patent number: 12171688Abstract: An apparatus includes a body, and anchoring feature, and a guide feature. The body is sized and configured to be positioned on an eye of a patient. The anchoring feature is configured to secure the body to the eye of the patient. The guide feature is configured to guide a cannula into a scleral incision formed in the eye of the patient along a path that is substantially tangential relative to the eye of the patient. The guide feature is sized and configured to allow the cannula to pivot laterally through a range of angular motion at the scleral incision.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Genentech, Inc.Inventors: Thomas E. Meyer, Mark Hedgeland, Benjamin Ko, Thomas Gernetzke, Olivia Enneking, Eric Kennedy, Robert Roth, Michael Auld, Jacob Schubert, Samuel Ridgley
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Publication number: 20240189111Abstract: A system for use during surgical procedures. The system includes an implant and a tool. The implant combines a modular adjustable cage and a shim that locks the cage into position, after the cage has been adjusted to its final position and at its final height, in situ. The tool combines an expander and an inserter. A related method of using the system is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2024Publication date: June 13, 2024Inventors: Peter F. Ullrich, JR., Eric Kennedy, Charles J. Turner
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Patent number: 11911290Abstract: A system for use during surgical procedures. The system includes an implant and a tool. The implant combines a modular adjustable cage and a shim that locks the cage into position, after the cage has been adjusted to its final position and at its final height, in situ. The tool combines an expander and an inserter. A related method of using the system is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Titan Spine, LLCInventors: Peter F. Ullrich, Jr., Eric Kennedy, Charles J. Turner
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Publication number: 20230390111Abstract: An apparatus includes a body, and anchoring feature, and a guide feature. The body is sized and configured to be positioned on an eye of a patient. The anchoring feature is configured to secure the body to the eye of the patient. The guide feature is configured to guide a cannula into a scleral incision formed in the eye of the patient along a path that is substantially tangential relative to the eye of the patient. The guide feature is sized and configured to allow the cannula to pivot laterally through a range of angular motion at the scleral incision.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Thomas E. Meyer, Mark Hedgeland, Benjamin Ko, Thomas Gernetzke, Olivia Enneking, Eric Kennedy, Robert Roth, Michael Auld, Jacob Schubert, Samuel Ridgley
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Patent number: 11510786Abstract: Implants for vertebral body or functional spinal unit replacement comprise a bioactive surface roughening on one or more of the anterior, posterior, and lateral surfaces of the implant. The bioactive surface includes macro-, micro-, and nano-scale structural features that contact vertebral bone that lines a specialized channel in a vertebrae, and thereby facilitate bone growth and osteointegration of the implant with the vertebral bone.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: TITAN SPINE, INC.Inventors: Peter F. Ullrich, Jr., Chad J. Patterson, Eric Kennedy, Carmie A. Thompson, III
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Publication number: 20220000638Abstract: A system for use during surgical procedures. The system includes an implant and a tool. The implant combines a modular adjustable cage and a shim that locks the cage into position, after the cage has been adjusted to its final position and at its final height, in situ. The tool combines an expander and an inserter. A related method of using the system is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: Peter F. Ullrich, JR., Eric Kennedy, Charles J. Turner
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Patent number: 11135070Abstract: A system for use during surgical procedures. The system includes an implant and a tool. The implant combines a modular adjustable cage and a shim that locks the cage into position, after the cage has been adjusted to its final position and at its final height, in situ. The tool combines an expander and an inserter. A related method of using the system is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: TITAN SPINE, INC.Inventors: Peter F. Ulrich, Jr., Eric Kennedy, Charles J. Turner
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Publication number: 20200289284Abstract: Implants for vertebral body or functional spinal unit replacement comprise a bioactive surface roughening on one or more of the anterior, posterior, and lateral surfaces of the implant. The bioactive surface includes macro-, micro-, and nano-scale structural features that contact vertebral bone that lines a specialized channel in a vertebrae, and thereby facilitate bone growth and osteointegration of the implant with the vertebral bone.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Peter F. Ullrich, JR., Chad J. Patterson, Eric Kennedy, Carmie A. Thompson, III
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Patent number: 10687956Abstract: Implants for vertebral body or functional spinal unit replacement comprise a bioactive surface roughening on one or more of the anterior, posterior, and lateral surfaces of the implant. The bioactive surface includes macro-, micro-, and nano-scale structural features that contact vertebral bone that lines a specialized channel in a vertebrae, and thereby facilitate bone growth and osteointegration of the implant with the vertebral bone.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2014Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Titan Spine, Inc.Inventors: Peter F. Ullrich, Jr., Chad J. Patterson, Eric Kennedy, Carmie A. Thompson, III
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Patent number: 10646981Abstract: A screwdriver for resisting premature disengagement of a screw from the screwdriver. The screwdriver includes a shaft having a central axis; a tip radially aligned with the central axis of the shaft which includes an end opposite the shaft, at least one radial protrusion extending away from the central axis, and a notch; and a screw retention mechanism including a flexible member aligned with the notch and attached to either the tip or the shaft. The flexible member has an unattached end which is separated from the second end of the tip. When the tip is inserted into a recess of a screw, the flexible member flexes toward the central axis and creates an opposing elastic force which holds the screw to the tip.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2016Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Titan Spine, Inc.Inventors: Eric Kennedy, Charles J. Turner
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Publication number: 20190247200Abstract: A system for use during surgical procedures. The system includes an implant and a tool. The implant combines a modular adjustable cage and a shim that locks the cage into position, after the cage has been adjusted to its final position and at its final height, in situ. The tool combines an expander and an inserter. A related method of using the system is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2019Publication date: August 15, 2019Applicant: Titan Spine, Inc.Inventors: Peter F. Ulrich, JR., Eric Kennedy, Charles J. Turner
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Patent number: 10064741Abstract: A system for affixing a stop plate to an interbody implant. The system includes a clamping device, a stop plate, and an inserter tool. The clamping device includes a body, a first clamping portion attached to the body including a stepped seat and a guide slot, and a second clamping portion attached to the body by a spring. Compressing the spring moves the second clamping portion away from the first clamping portion and expanding the spring moves the second clamping portion toward the first clamping portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Titan Spine, Inc.Inventors: Eric Kennedy, Charles J. Turner, Peter F. Ullrich, Jr.
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Publication number: 20170305000Abstract: A screwdriver for resisting premature disengagement of a screw from the screwdriver. The screwdriver includes a shaft having a central axis; a tip radially aligned with the central axis of the shaft which includes an end opposite the shaft, at least one radial protrusion extending away from the central axis, and a notch; and a screw retention mechanism including a flexible member aligned with the notch and attached to either the tip or the shaft. The flexible member has an unattached end which is separated from the second end of the tip. When the tip is inserted into a recess of a screw, the flexible member flexes toward the central axis and creates an opposing elastic force which holds the screw to the tip.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2016Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Eric Kennedy, Charles J. Turner
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Publication number: 20170181869Abstract: A system for affixing a stop plate to an interbody implant. The system includes a clamping device, a stop plate, and an inserter tool. The clamping device includes a body, a first clamping portion attached to the body including a stepped seat and a guide slot, and a second clamping portion attached to the body by a spring. Compressing the spring moves the second clamping portion away from the first clamping portion and expanding the spring moves the second clamping portion toward the first clamping portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2015Publication date: June 29, 2017Inventors: Eric Kennedy, Charles J. Turner, Peter F. Ullrich, JR.
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Patent number: 9421053Abstract: A system for anchoring implants to bones comprises a screw and fixation collar that when connected together inhibit axial movement of the screw and that when connected to an implant with a compatibly shaped aperture inhibit the screw's ability to back out from the bone and back out from the implant. The fixation collar includes a substantially C-shaped configuration partially surrounding a void, with first and second ends defining a gap that is slightly narrower in width than the diameter of the screw and being partially flexible to allow compression and expansion of the fixation collar to snap fit the collar around the screw.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2014Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Titan Spine, LLCInventors: Eric Kennedy, Chad J. Patterson, Carmie A. Thompson, III
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Publication number: 20150359639Abstract: Implants for vertebral body or functional spinal unit replacement comprise a bioactive surface roughening on one or more of the anterior, posterior, and lateral surfaces of the implant. The bioactive surface includes macro-, micro-, and nano-scale structural features that contact vertebral bone that lines a specialized channel in a vertebrae, and thereby facilitate bone growth and osteointegration of the implant with the vertebral bone.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2014Publication date: December 17, 2015Inventors: Peter F. Ullrich, JR., Chad J. Patterson, Eric Kennedy, Carmie A. Thompson, III
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Publication number: 20150320466Abstract: A system for anchoring implants to bones comprises a screw and fixation collar that when connected together inhibit axial movement of the screw and that when connected to an implant with a compatibly shaped aperture inhibit the screw's ability to back out from the bone and back out from the implant. The fixation collar includes a substantially C-shaped configuration partially surrounding a void, with first and second ends defining a gap that is slightly narrower in width than the diameter of the screw and being partially flexible to allow compression and expansion of the fixation collar to snap fit the collar around the screw.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2014Publication date: November 12, 2015Applicant: Titan Spine, LLCInventors: Eric Kennedy, Chad J. Patterson, Carmie A. Thompson, III
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Publication number: 20140343245Abstract: A method and an apparatus for the non-thermal plasma processing of halogenated compounds. A non-thermal plasma reactor (110) with a non-thermal plasma reaction zone (116) may process one or more halogenated compounds diluted in an inert carrier gas in a gas stream (114). An alkane gas may also be added to the gas stream (114) for some halogenated compounds. A uniform polymer product may be deposited within the non-thermal plasma reactor apparatus, the polymer being derived from molecular fragments of the reactant halogenated compound and the reactant alkane gas if present. The non-thermal plasma may be provided by the use of a dielectric barrier discharge technique utilizing two co-axial dielectric tubes (126, 128) with corresponding high voltage (136) and ground (138) electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: PACIFITECH PTY LTDInventors: Thomas Scott Molloy, Bogdan Dlugogorski, Eric Kennedy
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Publication number: 20140090757Abstract: An emulsion explosive, formulated with a basic surfactant, which is sensitised by gassing with active sodium hypochlorite.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2012Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: AEL MINING SERVICES LIMITEDInventors: Andre Pienaar, Hamat Yakhoub, Eric Kennedy, Bogdan Dlugogorski