Patents by Inventor Hans C. Meuli

Hans C. Meuli 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).

  • Metal shank
    Patent number: 5370695
    Abstract: Shanks designed especially for small joints, for example, finger joints, and having a rectangular cross-section of core (1), exhibit towards their free end plastically deformable lobes (7) of pieces of sheetmetal which may be deformed, e.g., bent intraoperatively, for which they are subdivided at intervals in the axial direction into a number of sections (7a) through cuts (8) running perpendicular to the axis (9) of the shank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Assignees: Sulzer Medizinaltechnik AG, Protek AG
    Inventors: Hans C. Meuli, Hansjorg Koller