Patents by Inventor Horacio Montes de Oca Balederas

Horacio Montes de Oca Balederas 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).

  • MEDICAL DEVICES CONTAINING SHAPE MEMORY POLYMER COMPOSITIONS
    Publication number: 20140309691
    Abstract: The present invention relates at least in part to surgical devices which comprise a shape memory polymer material composition. Particularly, although not exclusively, the present invention relates to a fixation device e.g. an anchor device e.g. a suture anchor which comprises a shape memory material. Included in the present invention are anchor devices e.g. suture anchors which are formed entirely of a shape memory polymer material. Embodiments of the present invention comprise hybrid suture anchors, particularly suture anchors which are formed from a shape memory polymer material and a non-shape memory material. Methods of securing an anchor in a bone or tissue are also included in the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventors: Malcolm Brown, Horacio Montes de Oca Balederas, Michael Andrew Hall, Alan William Bull, David Franklin Farrar, Philip Caton-Rose, Philip David Coates, Glen Thompson, Michael Martyn, Ian MacMillian Ward, Mark James Bonner, Peter John Hine