Patents by Inventor Jonathan Paul Gittings

Jonathan Paul Gittings 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).

  • Bone substitute material
    Patent number: 8101268
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a bone substitute material comprises the steps of providing a foam material (3) having an open cell structure, distorting the shape of the foam material (3) and holding the material in a distorted shape, coating the walls of the cells of the foam material with a ceramic slip (5), removing the foam material, and sintering the ceramic slip to form a bone substitute material that is approximately a positive image of the distorted foam material (3). In another method, a granular bone material is formed from a multiplicity of pieces of foam that are not distorted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: University of Bath
    Inventors: Anthony William Miles, Irene Gladys Turner, Jonathan Paul Gittings