Patents by Inventor Eric Semlar

Eric Semlar 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).

  • Vertebral disc repair
    Publication number: 20060235534
    Abstract: A sterile implant for treatment of a spinal disc defect comprising an allograft cortical bone demineralized to a Type I collagen having a specific shape which is treated to eliminate osteoinductivity. The implant is lyophilized and compressed into smaller first shape which 20 to 80% from its original shape in at least one dimension and hardened. The implant expanding when hydrated into a second shape having the shape memory of the first shape and expanded in dimensional size from the first compressed shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2006
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Arthur Gertzman, Barbara Merboth, Michael Schuler, Anton Steiner, Eric Semlar, Judith Yannariello-Brown