Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Wyman
Jeffrey Wyman 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: 20220409197Abstract: A suspension fixation device includes a first fastener assembled to an adjustable loop of suture. The second fastener has a slot configured to allow the second fastener to be assembled to the suture loop once the suture loop has been passed through a drill hole. The second fastener further comprises a suture bridge formed through a post of the fastener for housing the suture loop while the slot is configured to prohibit the suture loop from migrating back out of the suture bridge.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2020Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Pascal Boileau, Alexander I. Seidl, Dirk Wunderle, Mason J. Bettenga, Jeffrey Wyman
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Patent number: 11510696Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include instruments (100, 200, 400, 1100, 1400, 2100, 2400, 3400) and methods useful in delivering graft material (1) to a surgical site. Some embodiments may particularly be directed to forming a graft (1) and accurately and effectively handling and delivering the graft (1) to a surgical site arthroscopically. Graft material (1) may include blood components such as clotted fibrin derived from a patient's or a donor's blood.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2018Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: SMITH & NEPHEW, INC.Inventors: Charles H. Brown, Michael C. Ferragamo, William R. Davis, Jeffrey Wyman
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Patent number: 11452521Abstract: A suture passer which is sized and shaped to be inserted through the femoral notch during a meniscal repair. The suture passer includes upper and lower jaws that may be straight or that may have an angled offset in relation to the common axis of the suture passer in order to gain an indirect access to meniscal tissue in a constricted space. The jaws of the suture passer may be angled, either to the left or to the right, up to 45 degrees from the central axis of the shaft. The suture passer is also able to grasp meniscal tissue prior to suture passing. A nitinol needle housed within one of the jaws can then be deployed to pass a preloaded suture through the tissue to be captured on the opposite side of the tissue.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. LaPrade, David R. Diduch, David Kent Gregoire, Jeffrey Wyman, George William White, Carmel Ilka Bijoux, Jennifer Ng
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Publication number: 20220280169Abstract: In a first embodiment, the present invention includes an instrumentation system for preparing a bone for soft tissue repair, the instrumentation system including a flexible drill pin capable of bending along a curved path; an aimer capable of engaging the flexible pin to bend the flexible pin; and a flexible reamer having a flexible portion along at least a portion of its length, the flexible portion comprising a plurality of laser cuts.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Mark Steiner, Kyle Craig Pilgeram, Raymond West, Jeffrey Wyman, Matthew Hemstreet, Ran Oren, Eran Zakai, Elad Rash
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Publication number: 20220240954Abstract: Surgical drill guides have modular configurations and are adapted to accommodate a wide range of anatomy. The surgical drill guides are adapted to be removed while leaving a guide wire in its intended location in human bone. The distal end of the drill guide acts as a safety stop for the guide wire by preventing the guide wire from penetrating too far past the far side of the bone.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Santangelo, Anthony O'Leary, Matthew Dennis Cunningham, Scott Faucett, Jeffrey Wyman, Chun Liu, Roman Gutierrez
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Patent number: 11350952Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to instrumentation that facilitate coracoid-glenoid fixation in Latarjet procedures. For example, a single instrument, a coracoid resection tool, may be provided/utilized to prepare a coracoid bone graft for size, flatness, and hole drilling. A glenoid drill guide may further be provided/utilized that uses sized offsets for placement of the coracoid graft flush with the glenoid. Further embodiments of the disclosure are directed to corresponding methods that employ this instrumentation. For example, a surgeon may employs the coracoid resection tool as a guide to plane the inferior coracoid surface that will serve as the coracoid graft surface. The coracoid resection tool may further guide the placement of coracoid holes along the length of the coracoid and orient the holes approximately perpendicular to the planed coracoid graft surface. For example a proximal coracoid hole may be positioned towards the proximal end (i.e.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Mason J. Bettenga, Stephen A. Santangelo, Nikhil N. Verma, Jeffrey Wyman
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Patent number: 11298143Abstract: Surgical drill guides have modular configurations and are adapted to accommodate a wide range of anatomy. The surgical drill guides are adapted to be removed while leaving a guide wire in its intended location in human bone. The distal end of the drill guide acts as a safety stop for the guide wire by preventing the guide wire from penetrating too far past the far side of the bone.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Santangelo, Anthony O'Leary, Matthew Dennis Cunningham, Scott Faucett, Jeffrey Wyman, Chun Liu, Roman Gutierrez
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Publication number: 20210137556Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include instruments (100, 200, 400, 1100, 1400, 2100, 2400, 3400) and methods useful in delivering graft material (1) to a surgical site. Some embodiments may particularly be directed to forming a graft (1) and accurately and effectively handling and delivering the graft (1) to a surgical site arthroscopically. Graft material (1) may include blood components such as clotted fibrin derived from a patient's or a donor's blood.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2018Publication date: May 13, 2021Inventors: Charles H. Brown, Michael C. Ferragamo, William R. Davis, Jeffrey Wyman
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Publication number: 20200390453Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to instrumentation that facilitate coracoid-glenoid fixation in Latarjet procedures. For example, a single instrument, a coracoid resection tool, may be provided/utilized to prepare a coracoid bone graft for size, flatness, and hole drilling. A glenoid drill guide may further be provided/utilized that uses sized offsets for placement of the coracoid graft flush with the glenoid. Further embodiments of the disclosure are directed to corresponding methods that employ this instrumentation. For example, a surgeon may employs the coracoid resection tool as a guide to plane the inferior coracoid surface that will serve as the coracoid graft surface. The coracoid resection tool may further guide the placement of coracoid holes along the length of the coracoid and orient the holes approximately perpendicular to the planed coracoid graft surface. For example a proximal coracoid hole may be positioned towards the proximal end (i.e.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Mason J. Bettenga, Stephen A. Santangelo, Nikhil N. Verma, Jeffrey Wyman
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Patent number: 10806472Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to instrumentation that facilitate coracoid-glenoid fixation in Latarjet procedures. For example, a single instrument, a coracoid resection tool, may be provided/utilized to prepare a coracoid bone graft for size, flatness, and hole drilling. A glenoid drill guide may further be provided/utilized that uses sized offsets for placement of the coracoid graft flush with the glenoid. Further embodiments of the disclosure are directed to corresponding methods that employ this instrumentation. For example, a surgeon may employs the coracoid resection tool as a guide to plane the inferior coracoid surface that will serve as the coracoid graft surface. The coracoid resection tool may further guide the placement of coracoid holes along the length of the coracoid and orient the holes approximately perpendicular to the planed coracoid graft surface. For example a proximal coracoid hole may be positioned towards the proximal end (i.e.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Mason J. Bettenga, Stephen A. Santangelo, Nikhil N. Verma, Jeffrey Wyman
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Publication number: 20200179098Abstract: A double lead interference screw useful for securing a soft tissue graft inside a bone tunnel of a bone mass is disclosed. The interference screw has continuous independent double threads having uniform pitch, helix angle, and crest height throughout the threaded portions of the screw; a bulbous head; a threaded proximal section with a cylindrical root, a threaded distal section with a tapered root, and a threaded tapered distal tip. Methods for soft tissue repair using the double lead interference screw are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Jennifer Ng, Robert Marx, William Ragheb, Jared Harlow, Jeffrey Wyman, Stephen Santangelo
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Patent number: 10448942Abstract: A deformable or flexible suture anchor having apertures secures a suture to a skeletal structure via holes drilled through the skeletal structure, and passing the suture therethrough. A deformable structure permits the anchor to resiliently deform or bend for passing through an aperture, and resume a size larger than the passed aperture for securement on an opposed side of the aperture.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2014Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Santangelo, Jeffrey Wyman, Matthew E. Koski
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Publication number: 20190274697Abstract: Surgical drill guides have modular configurations and are adapted to accommodate a wide range of anatomy. The surgical drill guides are adapted to be removed while leaving a guide wire in its intended location in human bone. The distal end of the drill guide acts as a safety stop for the guide wire by preventing the guide wire from penetrating too far past the far side of the bone.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Santangelo, Anthony O'Leary, Matthew Dennis Cunningham, Scott Faucett, Jeffrey Wyman, Chun Liu, Roman Gutierrez
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Patent number: 10292744Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein include systems and methods for a bone screw and self-retaining driver. The system includes a mechanism that enables a bone screw to be rigidly attached to a screwdriver for manipulation and transfer of bone fragments and grafts to a fixation site, such as during surgery. The system includes a cannulated bone screw that has a drive connection that engages with a drive structures of a screwdriver. The bone screw also includes a structural connector that securely attaches to or receives an internal shaft or rod of the screwdriver. The internal shaft or rod of the screwdriver can rotate and slide independent of an outer shaft of screwdriver. Accordingly, the internal shaft of the screwdriver can rigidly connect with the bone screw enabling applied torque to the screwdriver to be transferred to the bone screw, without the bone screw falling off of the drive connection.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2016Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Anthony Santangelo, Jeffrey Wyman, Neil J. Etherington, Pascal Boileau
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Patent number: 10238404Abstract: A flexible reamer for preparing a hole in a tissue includes a shaft that extends along a longitudinal axis between a proximal end and a distal end. The shaft is cannulated through and has a flexible portion along at least a portion of its length. The flexible portion includes a plurality of discrete, interlocking portions. An asymmetric tip at the distal end of the shaft has at least one flute positioned off-axis relative to a longitudinal axis of the flexible reamer.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2014Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.Inventors: Mark Steiner, Kyle Craig Pilgeram, Raymond West, Jeffrey Wyman, Ran Oren, Eran Zakai, Elad Rash
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Patent number: 10159504Abstract: A surgical assembly, the assembly including a first guidewire, a second guidewire, in which each of the first guidewire and the second guidewire are configured to be received by a bone block, a first suture loop, a second suture loop, a first locking component, and a second locking component, in which the first locking component is coupled to the first suture loop and the second locking component is coupled to the second suture loop.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Wyman, Daniel Ellis, Graham Smith, Ettore Taverna
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Patent number: 10143507Abstract: A surgical assembly includes a first guidewire and a second guidewire, in which each of the first guidewire and the second guidewire are configured to be received by a bone block, a first suture loop, a second suture loop, a first locking component, and a second locking component, in which the first locking component is coupled to the first suture loop and the second locking component is coupled to the second suture loop. The locking component has a hole formed therethrough, in which the hole of the locking component is configured to receive the suture, and may be tethered to a suture by knots engaging a counterbore at opposed ends of a bore defined by the hole.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Jon-Paul Rogers, Timothy P. Callahan, Jeffrey Wyman, Graham Smith, Daniel B. Ellis, Ettore Taverna
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Publication number: 20180280018Abstract: A suture passer which is sized and shaped to be inserted through the femoral notch during a meniscal repair. The suture passer includes upper and lower jaws that may be straight or that may have an angled offset in relation to the common axis of the suture passer in order to gain an indirect access to meniscal tissue in a constricted space. The jaws of the suture passer may be angled, either to the left or to the right, up to 45 degrees from the central axis of the shaft. The suture passer is also able to grasp meniscal tissue prior to suture passing. A nitinol needle housed within one of the jaws can then be deployed to pass a preloaded suture through the tissue to be captured on the opposite side of the tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. LaPrade, David R. Diduch, David Kent Gregoire, Jeffrey Wyman, George William White, Carmel Ilka Bijoux, Jennifer Ng
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Patent number: 9999495Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an assembly for fixing a ligament in bone. The assembly includes a suspension member and an implant having a mechanism for fixedly receiving the suspension member and at least partially suspending the suspension member and the received bone graft within the implant, allowing for bony in-growth. A method of fixing a ligament in bone is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Konsei Shino, Stephen Santangelo, Jeffrey Wyman
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Patent number: RE49892Abstract: A deformable or flexible suture anchor having apertures secures a suture to a skeletal structure via holes drilled through the skeletal structure, and passing the suture therethrough. A deformable structure permits the anchor to resiliently deform or bend for passing through an aperture, and resume a size larger than the passed aperture for securement on an opposed side of the aperture.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SMITH & NEPHEW, INC.Inventors: Stephen Santangelo, Jeffrey Wyman, Matthew E. Koski