Patents by Inventor Georg Hettich

Georg Hettich 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).

  • Publication number: 20260144640
    Abstract: An anchoring unit is configured for anchoring a knee prosthesis component to a leg bone. The anchoring unit includes an anchoring sleeve having a sleeve wall. The sleeve wall defines a through-opening designed to receive a prosthesis stem. The sleeve wall has at least two wall sections that are formed separately from one another and made of a non-physiologically degradable material. The wall sections are connected to one another by at least one connecting section made of a physiologically degradable material. The anchoring unit can be part of a prosthesis kit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2025
    Publication date: May 28, 2026
    Inventor: Georg Hettich
  • Publication number: 20250009519
    Abstract: A method for producing a medical product includes the step of forming at least one functional element on a surface of a base body by additive construction or manufacture, followed by the step of connecting the at least one functional element to the base body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Josef Hauser, Georg Hettich, Tobias Waeschle, Frank Fedtke, Johannes Adam, Steffen Schaz
  • Publication number: 20240371495
    Abstract: A medical system and method can be used to determine a treatment suggestion when treating a bone with an implant. In a memory device there are stored treatment data records for previous treatment interventions, containing parameter information, treatment information and success information. A data processing device determines, for an upcoming treatment intervention, at least one selected treatment kind with respect to a successful treatment intervention based on parameter information and depending on the linking of the success information with the parameter information of previous treatment interventions. A treatment proposal regarding the at least one selected treatment kind is output to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Ronja Alissa Schierjott-Hermle, Georg Hettich
  • Publication number: 20240358526
    Abstract: A tibial trial implant for use in a knee joint replacement operation includes an articulation component with an articulation surface for articulation with a femoral component, at least one support component having a bearing surface configured for bearing on a tibial plateau, a top side forming a ramp inclined relative to the bearing surface, and a guide device having a guide track parallel to the ramp. A bottom side of the articulation component has a support surface inclined parallel to the ramp. The articulation component is held on the guide device and supported with its support surface on the ramp in a manner linearly movable along the guide track relative to the support component. Relative movement between the articulation component and support component changes a proximodistal distance between the articulation surface of the articulation component and bearing surface of the support component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Georg Hettich, Lucy Mayrhofer
  • Publication number: 20240225843
    Abstract: A bone implant system, a bone implant produced using such a bone implant system, and a method for producing such an implant. The bone implant system includes a plurality of different disc elements having different external diameters. The disc elements can be stacked axially above one another in different combinations to form different stack arrangements owing to the different external diameters of the disc elements. The different stack arrangements have different outer contours. The disc elements each have an interlocking portion situated on an upper face and a complementary interlocking portion situated on an axially opposite lower face, by which interlocking portions the disc elements can be interlockingly fixed to one another in the different stack arrangements in the radial direction and/or the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventor: Georg Hettich
  • Publication number: 20240130861
    Abstract: A bone implant system, a bone implant produced using such a bone implant system, and a method for producing such an implant. The bone implant system includes a plurality of different disc elements having different external diameters. The disc elements can be stacked axially above one another in different combinations to form different stack arrangements owing to the different external diameters of the disc elements. The different stack arrangements have different outer contours. The disc elements each have an interlocking portion situated on an upper face and a complementary interlocking portion situated on an axially opposite lower face, by which interlocking portions the disc elements can be interlockingly fixed to one another in the different stack arrangements in the radial direction and/or the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventor: Georg Hettich
  • Publication number: 20230372106
    Abstract: A medical product for use during the treatment of a bone defect, having a plurality of individual elements that are connected to one another such that individual elements adjacent to one another engage in one another/are chained to one another. The individual elements of the chain net are subdivided into main elements and connection elements that are designed differently from the main elements. The main elements and the connection elements form, when chained to one another, a grid structure that is flat in the x-y plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Georg Hettich, Lena Schwanz
  • Patent number: 11819413
    Abstract: A medical product for use during the treatment of a bone defect, having a plurality of individual elements that are connected to one another such that individual elements adjacent to one another engage in one another/are chained to one another. The individual elements of the chain net are subdivided into main elements and connection elements that are designed differently from the main elements. The main elements and the connection elements form, when chained to one another, a grid structure that is flat in the x-y plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Aesculap AG
    Inventors: Georg Hettich, Lena Schwanz
  • Publication number: 20230149173
    Abstract: A bone implant includes a main body in the form of a hollow body open on both sides in the axial direction. The main body includes a load-bearing material. An encasing body at least partially encases the main body on the outside and includes an in vivo degradable/in vivo resorbable material. Alternatively, the encasing body includes a multiplicity of shaped bodies protruding from the main body in the radial direction that include an in vivo degradable/in vivo resorbable material. A method for producing the bone implant includes an additive manufacturing process. The main body can be at least partially encased by the encasing body in the additive manufacturing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Elvira Stolinski, Marc Baxmann, Denis Hoeffgen, Georg Hettich, Thomas Grupp
  • Publication number: 20230118746
    Abstract: A medical apparatus, medical method, data processing program and program storage medium. A piece of reference position information of a reference element arranged on a bone is checked for agreement with a position of the reference element in a reference coordinate system, which is defined by a marking device and can be monitored by a navigation device. The model data set can be registered in the reference coordinate system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Georg Hettich, Tobias Martin, Allan Maas
  • Patent number: 11547568
    Abstract: An implant for treating a bone defect wherein the implant comprises osteoconductive supporting bodies and an insertion aid. The insertion aid is designed for insertion of the osteoconductive supporting bodies into a bone defect and for holding together the osteoconductive supporting bodies. Also disclosed is a kit comprised of an implant for treating a bone defect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: AESCULAP AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Abele, Georg Hettich, Silke Koenig
  • Publication number: 20220015909
    Abstract: A medical product for use during the treatment of a bone defect, having a plurality of individual elements that are connected to one another such that individual elements adjacent to one another engage in one another/are chained to one another. The individual elements of the chain net are subdivided into main elements and connection elements that are designed differently from the main elements. The main elements and the connection elements form, when chained to one another, a grid structure that is flat in the x-y plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Georg Hettich, Lena Schwanz
  • Publication number: 20210177601
    Abstract: An implant, in particular for the treatment and/or biological reconstruction of a bone defect, includes osteoconductive supporting bodies and a supporting sheath at least partially surrounding the osteoconductive supporting bodies. The sheath can be formed of a sheath material or can consist of a sheath material that is soluble in water or in water-containing liquids. A kit and method for the treatment and/or biological reconstruction of a bone defect can utilize a sheath for osteoconductive supporting bodies and a material for sheathing the osteoconductive supporting bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Georg HETTICH, Silke KÖNIG, Wolfgang ABELE
  • Publication number: 20210128251
    Abstract: Medical-technical instrumentation and a medical-technical method that utilize a planning data set created for a surgeon on the basis of an actual state data set of a bone that is considered to be defective. The planning data set can be used intraoperatively for improving the surgery outcome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Georg HETTICH, Ronja SCHIERJOTT, Allan MAAS, Christoph SCHILLING
  • Publication number: 20190350713
    Abstract: An implant for treating a bone defect wherein the implant comprises osteoconductive supporting bodies and an insertion aid. The insertion aid is designed for insertion of the osteoconductive supporting bodies into a bone defect and for holding together the osteoconductive supporting bodies. Also disclosed is a kit comprised of an implant for treating a bone defect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Wolfgang Abele, Georg Hettich, Silke Koenig