Patents by Inventor Jean-Marc Vital
Jean-Marc Vital 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).
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Publication number: 20170079692Abstract: The invention relates to an osteosynthesis assembly formed by a plate and at least one screw provided with a head, designed to maintain said plate by crossing through an orifice of said plate to fasten it to a bone, said plate having as many orifices (2) as there are screws, characterized in that: at least one of said orifices of said plate has, over at least a portion of its periphery, a metal, ceramic or polymer collar, at which the nominal diameter of the orifice is reduced to a value below said nominal diameter; said screw designed to cross through said orifice has a conical or curved under-head threading; the collar and the thread bottom of the under-head threading have a tightening of at least 0.01 mm if the collar is made from metal or ceramic and at least 0.05 mm if the collar is made from polymer, so as to create a hard spot toward the end of the placement of the screw, said hard spot remaining after the screw has been placed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2015Publication date: March 23, 2017Inventors: Virgile CIRIER, Jean-Claude HUOT, Lionel SIMON, Jean-Marc VITAL
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Publication number: 20160235547Abstract: The present invention relates to an intervertebral disk prosthesis comprising at least three parts including a first plate, referred to as the upper plate (1), a second plate, referred to as the lower plate (2), and a core (3), the upper surface of the core (3) being in contact with at least part (10) of the lower surface of the upper plate (1) and the lower surface of the core (3) being in contact with at least part of the upper surface of the lower plate (2), and the lower plate (1) being movable at least with respect to the core (3), characterised in that there are cooperation means between the lower to plate (2) and the core (3), so as to limit or eliminate translation movements of the core (3) with respect to the lower plate (2) along an axis substantially parallel to the lower plate (2), and to limit or eliminate rotation movements of the core (3) with respect to the lower plate (2), around an axis substantially perpendicular to the lower plate (2), the planes passing through the upper (1) is and lowerType: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2016Publication date: August 18, 2016Applicant: LDR MedicalInventors: Jacques Beaurain, Jean-Marc Fuentes, Jean-Marc Vital, Thierry Dufour, Jean Huppert
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Patent number: 9265619Abstract: The present invention relates to an intervertebral disk prosthesis comprising at least three parts including a first plate, referred to as the upper plate (1), a second plate, referred to as the lower plate (2), and a core (3), the upper surface of the core (3) being in contact with at least part (10) of the lower surface of the upper plate (1) and the lower surface of the core (3) being in contact with at least part of the upper surface of the lower plate (2), and the lower plate (1) being movable at least with respect to the core (3), characterized in that there are cooperation means between the lower to plate (2) and the core (3), so as to limit or eliminate translation movements of the core (3) with respect to the lower plate (2) along an axis substantially parallel to the lower plate (2), and to limit or eliminate rotation movements of the core (3) with respect to the lower plate (2), around an axis substantially perpendicular to the lower plate (2), the planes passing through the upper (1) is and lowerType: GrantFiled: June 17, 2014Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: LDR MedicalInventors: Jacques Beaurain, Jean-Marc Fuentes, Jean-Marc Vital, Thierry Dufour, Jean Huppert
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Patent number: 8951294Abstract: A spinal implant (100) includes an anchoring part (110) adapted to be anchored to a vertebra and having first connecting elements (112), and a mounting part (120) including both an internal axial housing (151) to receive transversely a connecting rod (30), this axial housing being terminated beside the anchoring part (110) by a bottom (156), and also second connecting elements that cooperate with the first connecting elements to form a ball-joint connection between the anchoring part and the mounting part. The spinal implant includes retaining elements that are situated near the bottom of the axial housing of the mounting part that are adapted to fasten a locking member in a stationary so-called locking position in which the ball-joint connection formed by the first and second connecting elements is locked to fasten the anchoring part and the mounting part in rotation relative to each other about at least two orthogonal axes.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: EurosInventors: Jean-Marie Gennari, Herve Chataigner, Jean-Marc Vital, Laurent Nogues, Hugues-Pascal Mousselard, Pascal Kouyoumdjian, Jean-Michel Taillet, Philippe Tisserand
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Publication number: 20140364949Abstract: The present invention relates to an intervertebral disk prosthesis comprising at least three parts including a first plate, referred to as the upper plate (1), a second plate, referred to as the lower plate (2), and a core (3), the upper surface of the core (3) being in contact with at least part (10) of the lower surface of the upper plate (1) and the lower surface of the core (3) being in contact with at least part of the upper surface of the lower plate (2), and the lower plate (1) being movable at least with respect to the core (3), characterised in that there are cooperation means between the lower to plate (2) and the core (3), so as to limit or eliminate translation movements of the core (3) with respect to the lower plate (2) along an axis substantially parallel to the lower plate (2), and to limit or eliminate rotation movements of the core (3) with respect to the lower plate (2), around an axis substantially perpendicular to the lower plate (2), the planes passing through the upper (1) is and lowerType: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: LDR MedicalInventors: Jacques Beaurain, Jean-Marc Fuentes, Jean-Marc Vital, Thierry Dufour, Jean Huppert
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Patent number: 8753397Abstract: An intervertebral disk prosthesis comprising at least three parts is disclosed. Some embodiments comprise a first plate, a second plate, and a core, the upper surface of the core in contact with at least part of the lower surface of the upper plate and the lower surface of the core in contact with at least part of the upper surface of the lower plate, and the lower plate movable at least with respect to the core. Some embodiments comprise cooperation means to limit or eliminate translation movements of the core with respect to the lower plate along an axis substantially parallel to the lower plate, and to limit or eliminate rotation movements of the core with respect to the lower plate, around an axis substantially perpendicular to the lower plate, the planes passing through the upper is and lower plates forming a substantially constant angle.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: LDR MedicalInventors: Jacques Beaurain, Jean-Marc Fuentes, Jean-Marc Vital, Thierry Dufout, Jean Huppert
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Publication number: 20130253648Abstract: An intervertebral disk prosthesis comprising at least three parts is disclosed. Some embodiments comprise a first plate, a second plate, and a core, the upper surface of the core in contact with at least part of the lower surface of the upper plate and the lower surface of the core in contact with at least part of the upper surface of the lower plate, and the lower plate movable at least with respect to the core. Some embodiments comprise cooperation means to limit or eliminate translation movements of the core with respect to the lower plate along an axis substantially parallel to the lower plate, and to limit or eliminate rotation movements of the core with respect to the lower plate, around an axis substantially perpendicular to the lower plate, the planes passing through the upper is and lower plates forming a substantially constant angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: September 26, 2013Inventors: Jacques Beaurain, Jean-Marc Fuentes, Jean-Marc Vital, Thierry Dufout, Jean Huppert
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Patent number: 8267999Abstract: The present invention relates to an intervertebral disk prosthesis comprising at least three parts including a first plate, referred to as the upper plate (1), a second plate, referred to as the lower plate (2), and a core (3), the upper surface of the core (3) being in contact with at least part (10) of the lower surface of the upper plate (1) and the lower surface of the core (3) being in contact with at least part of the upper surface of the lower plate (2), and the lower plate (1) being movable at least with respect to the core (3), characterized in that there are cooperation means between the lower to plate (2) and the core (3), so as to limit or eliminate translation movements of the core (3) with respect to the lower plate (2) along an axis substantially parallel to the lower plate (2), and to limit or eliminate rotation movements of the core (3) with respect to the lower plate (2), around an axis substantially perpendicular to the lower plate (2), the planes passing through the upper (1) is and lowerType: GrantFiled: April 15, 2009Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: LDR MedicalInventors: Jacques Beaurain, Jean-Marc Fuentes, Jean-Marc Vital, Thierry Dufout, Jean Huppert
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Publication number: 20120046701Abstract: A spinal implant (100) includes an anchoring part (110) adapted to be anchored to a vertebra and having first connecting elements (112), and a mounting part (120) including both an internal axial housing (151) to receive transversely a connecting rod (30), this axial housing being terminated beside the anchoring part (110) by a bottom (156), and also second connecting elements that cooperate with the first connecting elements to form a ball-joint connection between the anchoring part and the mounting part. The spinal implant includes retaining elements that are situated near the bottom of the axial housing of the mounting part that are adapted to fasten a locking member in a stationary so-called locking position in which the ball-joint connection formed by the first and second connecting elements is locked to fasten the anchoring part and the mounting part in rotation relative to each other about at least two orthogonal axes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2010Publication date: February 23, 2012Applicant: EUROSInventors: Jean-Marie Gennari, Herve Chataigner, Jean-Marc Vital, Laurent Nogues, Hugues Pascal Mousselard, Pascal Kouyoumdjian, Jean-Michel Tallet, Philippe Tisserand
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Patent number: 7682396Abstract: The present invention relates to an intervertebral disk prosthesis comprising at least three parts including a first plate, referred to as the upper plate (1), a second plate, referred to as the lower plate (2), and a core (3), the upper surface of the core (3) being in contact with at least part (10) of the lower surface of the upper plate (1) and the lower surface of the core (3) being in contact with at least part of the upper surface of the lower plate (2), and the lower plate (1) being movable at least with respect to the core (3), characterised in that there are cooperation means between the lower to plate (2) and the core (3), so as to limit or eliminate translation movements of the core (3) with respect to the lower plate (2) along an axis substantially parallel to the lower plate (2), and to limit or eliminate rotation movements of the core (3) with respect to the lower plate (2), around an axis substantially perpendicular to the lower plate (2), the planes passing through the upper (1) is and lowerType: GrantFiled: October 31, 2003Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: LDR MedicalInventors: Jacques Beaurain, Jean-Marc Fuentes, Jean-Marc Vital, Thierry Dufour, Jean Huppert
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Publication number: 20090204219Abstract: The present invention relates to an intervertebral disk prosthesis comprising at least three parts including a first plate, referred to as the upper plate (1), a second plate,.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2009Publication date: August 13, 2009Inventors: Jacques Beaurain, Jean-Marc Fuentes, Jean-Marc Vital, Thierry Dufout, Jean Huppert
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Publication number: 20060155377Abstract: The present invention relates to an intervertebral disk prosthesis comprising at least three parts including a first plate, referred to as the upper plate (1), a second plate, referred to as the lower plate (2), and a core (3), the upper surface of the core (3) being in contact with at least part (10) of the lower surface of the upper plate (1) and the lower surface of the core (3) being in contact with at least part of the upper surface of the lower plate (2), and the lower plate (1) being movable at least with respect to the core (3), characterised in that there are cooperation means between the lower to plate (2) and the core (3), so as to limit or eliminate translation movements of the core (3) with respect to the lower plate (2) along an axis substantially parallel to the lower plate (2), and to limit or eliminate rotation movements of the core (3) with respect to the lower plate (2), around an axis substantially perpendicular to the lower plate (2), the planes passing through the upper (1) is and lowerType: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2003Publication date: July 13, 2006Inventors: Jacques Beaurain, Jean-Marc Fuentes, Jean-Marc Vital, Thierry Dufour