Patents by Inventor Helmut Oexle

Helmut Oexle 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).

  • Instrument system for the operative correction of vertebral displacements
    Patent number: 6533791
    Abstract: An instrument system for the operative correction of vertebral displacements and for the stabilizing of repositioned vertebral bodies is described which is characterized by correction and support devices which are formed in two parts and which are displaceable in the axial direction guided relative to one another by means of an integrated setting member, as well as by interim spacers which are adapted in their spacer dimensions to the respective correction and support devices and by perforated hollow cylinder implants which are provided with outwardly lying fixing members and which are replaceable by the correction and support devices in repositioned vertebral bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Sulzer Orthopedics Ltd.
    Inventors: Augustin Betz, Jürgen Klein, Helmut Oexle, Lutz Todt