Patents by Inventor Joël Letendart

Joël Letendart 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).

  • Patent number: 6432109
    Abstract: The ostheosynthesis connection device of the invention is designed to connect a screw for implanting in the spine to a vertebral support rod. The screw is constituted by a bottom first threaded portion, a head having flats and a curved base, and a top second threaded portion in line with the first. A nut having a curved base is suitable for co-operating with the second threaded portion. For connection with the screw, a connection piece has a hole of inside diameter that is greater than the outside diameter of the second threaded portion of the screw, and around said hole it has curved top and bottom bearing faces such that the connection piece is locked in position relative to the screw once the nut has been tightened by the curved base of the nut bearing against the top bearing face thereof and by the bottom bearing face being clamped against the curved base of the head of the screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Societe de Genie Medical S.G.M.
    Inventors: Joël Letendart, Denis Cordonnier, Jean-François Desrousseaux, Philippe Stahl, Henri Mathevon
  • Patent number: 6190416
    Abstract: This orthopedic assembly has a connection between the ancillary tool and the stem or raspatory that allows both the raspatory and the femoral stem to be positioned in the intramedullary channel of a femur by means of the same ancillary tool. The connector includes a tapped hole extending from the bottom of a conical recess in the femoral end of the stem, or of the raspatory, and a threaded projection provided on the ancillary tool and designed to be screwed into the tapped hole. The bottom of the conical recess in the raspatory and in the stem has a profiled indentation whose edge includes alternating concave and convex curves and is designed to receive a male indexing part of a corresponding profile arranged on the end of the removable neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Groupe Grion
    Inventors: Michel Choteau, Gérard Grynblat, Joël Letendart, Henri Mathevon, Philippe Stahl, Jacques Van Overschelde, Philippe Vigier