Patents by Inventor Jerome Tonetti
Jerome Tonetti 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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Patent number: 9514533Abstract: The invention relates to a method for non-invasive reproducible determination of a corrected surface on a 3D bone surface model constructed from 3D medical image of a bone having a deformation consisting in a bump overgrowth at the head-neck junction; wherein said corrected surface comprises: i) a 3D spherical corrected surface patch on the head portion of said 3D bone surface model, and ii) a 3D smooth transition corrected surface patch on the neck portion of said 3D bone surface model, contiguous to said 3D spherical corrected surface patch; Said corrected surface patches are defined by a set of parameters comprising: iii) at least one first parameter (a*) representing a spherical extent value of said 3D spherical corrected surface patch, iv) and a set of at least one second parameter, said set determining the 3D correction boundary of said corrected surface patches, such that said corrected surface patches are continuous with said 3D bone surface model along said boundary.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2015Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Laurence Chabanas, Stéphane Lavallee, Jérôme Tonetti, Thomas Byrd, Bryan Talmadge Kelly, Christopher Larson
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Patent number: 9183629Abstract: The invention relates to a method for automatically determining, on a bone comprising a head portion contiguous to a neck portion, parameters for characterizing a bump deformation on the head-neck junction of the bone from acquired 3D medical image, the method comprising the following steps: i) constructing a 3D surface model of the bone; ii) fitting a sphere on the spherical portion of the head of the bone; iii) determining a neck axis characterizing the neck portion of the bone; iv) determining from the fitted sphere and the neck axis, a clock face referential on the head of the bone rotating around the neck axis; v) determining a 3D curve on the 3D surface model characterizing the head-neck junction of the bone; vi) determining, from the 3D curve, the summit of the bump deformation of the head-neck junction of the bone; vii) determining, from said summit of the bump deformation, first and a second parameters (?3D, iMax) characterizing the maximum bump deformation of the head-neck junction of the bone.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2014Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: A2 SurgicalInventors: Laurence Chabanas, Stéphane Lavallee, Jérôme Tonetti, Thomas Byrd, Bryan Talmadge Kelly, Christopher Larson
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Publication number: 20150269727Abstract: The invention relates to a method for non-invasive reproducible determination of a corrected surface on a 3D bone surface model constructed from 3D medical image of a bone having a deformation consisting in a bump overgrowth at the head-neck junction; wherein said corrected surface comprises: i) a 3D spherical corrected surface patch on the head portion of said 3D bone surface model, and ii) a 3D smooth transition corrected surface patch on the neck portion of said 3D bone surface model, contiguous to said 3D spherical corrected surface patch; Said corrected surface patches are defined by a set of parameters comprising: iii) at least one first parameter (a*) representing a spherical extent value of said 3D spherical corrected surface patch, iv) and a set of at least one second parameter, said set determining the 3D correction boundary of said corrected surface patches, such that said corrected surface patches are continuous with said 3D bone surface model along said boundary.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2015Inventors: Laurence Chabanas, Stéphane Lavallee, Jérôme Tonetti, Thomas Byrd, Bryan Talmadge Kelly, Christopher Larson
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Patent number: 9122670Abstract: The invention relates to a method for real-time determination an optimal corrected surface of a first bone and/or a second bone forming together an articulation, the first and/or second bones presenting an overgrowth deformation, said corrected surface providing a greater range of motion of the articulation, the method comprising the following steps: i) constructing from acquired images of the articulation 3D voxel models of the first bone and the second bone; ii) for each of first and second bone voxel models, constructing a coordinate system defined by a center and three axes; iii) applying a motion pattern on the coordinate system of the second bone with respect to the coordinate system of the first bone, a motion pattern being a set of contiguous positions of the first or second bone coordinate systems with respect to the other bone coordinate system, the contiguous positions defining a movement of one bone with respect to the other, wherein said motion pattern is initially loaded from a data base of predType: GrantFiled: June 16, 2011Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: A2 SurgicalInventors: Laurence Chabanas, Stéphane Lavallee, Jerome Tonetti, Thomas Byrd, Bryan Talmadge Kelly, Christopher Larson
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Patent number: 9020223Abstract: The invention relates to a method for non-invasive reproducible determination of a corrected surface on a 3D bone surface model constructed from 3D medical image of a bone having a deformation consisting in a bump overgrowth at the head-neck junction; wherein said corrected surface comprises: i) a 3D spherical corrected surface patch on the head portion of said 3D bone surface model, and ii) a 3D smooth transition corrected surface patch on the neck portion of said 3D bone surface model, contiguous to said 3D spherical corrected surface patch; Said corrected surface patches are defined by a set of parameters comprising: iii) at least one first parameter (a*) representing a spherical extent value of said 3D spherical corrected surface patch, iv) and a set of at least one second parameter, said set determining the 3D correction boundary of said corrected surface patches, such that said corrected surface patches are continuous with said 3D bone surface model along said boundary.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2011Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: A2 SurgicalInventors: Laurence Chabanas, Stéphane Lavallee, Jerome Tonetti, Thomas Byrd, Bryan Talmadge Kelly, Christopher Larson
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Publication number: 20150049928Abstract: The invention relates to a method for automatically determining, on a bone comprising a head portion contiguous to a neck portion, parameters for characterizing a bump deformation on the head-neck junction of the bone from acquired 3D medical image, the method comprising the following steps: i) constructing a 3D surface model of the bone; ii) fitting a sphere on the spherical portion of the head of the bone; iii) determining a neck axis characterizing the neck portion of the bone; iv) determining from the fitted sphere and the neck axis, a clock face referential on the head of the bone rotating around the neck axis; v) determining a 3D curve on the 3D surface model characterizing the head-neck junction of the bone; vi) determining, from the 3D curve, the summit of the bump deformation of the head-neck junction of the bone; vii) determining, from said summit of the bump deformation, first and a second parameters (?3D, iMax) characterizing the maximum bump deformation of the head-neck junction of the bone.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Inventors: Laurence Chabanas, Stéphane Lavallee, Jérôme Tonetti, Thomas Byrd, Bryan Talmadge Kelly, Christopher Larson
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Patent number: 8923584Abstract: The invention relates to a method for automatically determining, on a bone comprising a head portion contiguous to a neck portion, parameters for characterizing a bump deformation on the head-neck junction of the bone from acquired 3D medical image, the method comprising the following steps: i) constructing a 3D surface model of the bone; ii) fitting a sphere on the spherical portion of the head of the bone; iii) determining a neck axis characterizing the neck portion of the bone; iv) determining from the fitted sphere and the neck axis, a clock face referential on the head of the bone rotating around the neck axis; v) determining a 3D curve on the 3D surface model characterizing the head-neck junction of the bone; vi) determining, from the 3D curve, the summit of the bump deformation of the head-neck junction of the bone; vii) determining, from said summit of the bump deformation, first and a second parameters (?3D, iMax) characterizing the maximum bump deformation of the head-neck junction of the bone.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2011Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: A2 SurgicalInventors: Laurence Chabanas, Stéphane Lavallee, Jerome Tonetti, Thomas Byrd, Bryan Talmadge Kelly, Christopher Larson
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Publication number: 20130089253Abstract: The invention relates to a method for non-invasive reproducible determination of a corrected surface on a 3D bone surface model constructed from 3D medical image of a bone having a deformation consisting in a bump overgrowth at the head-neck junction; wherein said corrected surface comprises: i) a 3D spherical corrected surface patch on the head portion of said 3D bone surface model, and ii) a 3D smooth transition corrected surface patch on the neck portion of said 3D bone surface model, contiguous to said 3D spherical corrected surface patch; Said corrected surface patches are defined by a set of parameters comprising: iii) at least one first parameter (a*) representing a spherical extent value of said 3D spherical corrected surface patch, iv) and a set of at least one second parameter, said set determining the 3D correction boundary of said corrected surface patches, such that said corrected surface patches are continuous with said 3D bone surface model along said boundary.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2011Publication date: April 11, 2013Applicant: A2 SurgicalInventors: Laurence Chabanas, Stéphane Lavallee, Jerome Tonetti, Thomas Byrd, Bryan Talmadge Kelly, Christopher Larson
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Publication number: 20130085723Abstract: The invention relates to a method for real-time determination an optimal corrected surface of a first bone and/or a second bone forming together an articulation, the first and/or second bones presenting an overgrowth deformation, said corrected surface providing a greater range of motion of the articulation, the method comprising the following steps: i) constructing from acquired images of the articulation 3D voxel models of the first bone and the second bone; ii) for each of first and second bone voxel models, constructing a coordinate system defmed by a center and three axes; iii) applying a motion pattern on the coordinate system of the second bone with respect to the coordinate system of the first bone, a motion pattern being a set of contiguous positions of the first or second bone coordinate systems with respect to the other bone coordinate system, the contiguous positions defining a movement of one bone with respect to the other, wherein said motion pattern is initially loaded from a data base of pre-dType: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2011Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: A2 SURGICALInventors: Laurence Chabanas, Stéphane Lavallee, Jerome Tonetti, Thomas Byrd, Bryan Talmadge Kelly, Christopher Larson
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Publication number: 20130083984Abstract: The invention relates to a method for automatically determining, on a bone comprising a head portion contiguous to a neck portion, parameters for characterizing a bump deformation on the head-neck junction of the bone from acquired 3D medical image, the method comprising the following steps: i) constructing a 3D surface model of the bone; ii) fitting a sphere on the spherical portion of the head of the bone; iii) determining a neck axis characterizing the neck portion of the bone; iv) determining from the fitted sphere and the neck axis, a clock face referential on the head of the bone rotating around the neck axis; v) determining a 3D curve on the 3D surface model characterizing the head-neck junction of the bone; vi) determining, from the 3D curve, the summit of the bump deformation of the head-neck junction of the bone; vii) determining, from said summit of the bump deformation, first and a second parameters (?3D, iMax) characterizing the maximum bump deformation of the head-neck junction of the bone.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2011Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: A2 SURGICALInventors: Laurence Chabanas, Stéphane Lavallee, Jerome Tonetti, Thomas Byrd, Bryan Talmadge Kelly, Christopher Larson