Patents by Inventor Kenneth A. Gall
Kenneth A. Gall 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: 10624996Abstract: A method includes forming a mixture including a therapeutic agent and a solid delivery medium, injecting the mixture into a reservoir within an orthopedic implant body, and storing the injected mixture in the reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Duke UniversityInventors: Kenneth A. Gall, Thorsten M. Seyler, Brian Allen, Sarah Dicker, Catherine Oliver
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Publication number: 20190167433Abstract: An orthopedic implant device includes an implant body with a reservoir configured store a therapeutic agent. A wall of the implant body has opposite side surfaces, including a side surface facing into the reservoir. Elution channels reach from the reservoir through the body wall. The elution channels include an elongated channel traversing a thickness of the body wall between the opposite side surfaces. The elongated channel may have a length greater than twice the thickness.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2018Publication date: June 6, 2019Inventors: Brian Allen, Kenneth A. Gall, Thorsten M. Seyler, Catherine Oliver
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Publication number: 20190167260Abstract: A fixation device is disclosed. The fixation device includes a first component and a second component. The first component has a top surface, a base, at least one locking projection, and at least one tapered projection extending from the top surface. The at least one locking projection includes a first locking element. The fixation device further includes a second component having a top surface, a base, at least one locking aperture, and at least one second aperture corresponding to the projections on the first component. The at least one locking apertures includes a second locking element. In some embodiments, the at least one locking projection on the first component is configured to lock together with the at least one locking aperture on the second component to secure together two ends of a surgical mesh suture or tape suture.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2017Publication date: June 6, 2019Inventors: Howard Levinson, Kenneth A. Gall
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Publication number: 20190167851Abstract: A method includes forming a mixture including a therapeutic agent and a solid delivery medium, injecting the mixture into a reservoir within an orthopedic implant body, and storing the injected mixture in the reservoir.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2018Publication date: June 6, 2019Applicant: DUKE UNIVERSITYInventors: Kenneth A. Gall, Thorsten M. Seyler, Brian Allen, Sarah Dicker, Catherine Oliver
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Patent number: 8808385Abstract: Provided herein are shape memory polymer spinal cages including polymers with intended deployment at temperatures far below the onset of the glassy transition of the shape memory polymer. The described shape memory polymer spinal cages are adapted to be deployed by mechanical activation rather than thermal activation or activation by other stimuli. Thus, the shape memory polymers used herein are configured to have transition temperatures far above their temperatures of intended use, thereby requiring mechanical activation to recover stored strains.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2013Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: MedShape, Inc.Inventors: Kathryn Smith, Kenneth A. Gall, Kenneth Dupont
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Publication number: 20130310835Abstract: Intramedullary medical devices (e.g., intramedullary nails) and methods for their use and manufacture are described herein. The intramedullary medical devices described herein may provide sustained compressive forces across a bone fusion site despite bone resorption processes. Through various embodiments, the intramedullary medical devices described herein may provide non-linear force curves relative to displacement. Intramedullary medical devices are described with multiple elements made of different materials. Examples of intramedullary medical devices are described with shape memory alloys.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: MedShape Inc.Inventors: Kenneth A. Gall, Kurt Jacobus, Heidi K. Waldman, Douglas Pacaccio, Mark Harrold
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Publication number: 20130237632Abstract: Methods and apparatus described herein may utilize activation of an SMP material to install medical devices with respect to a surgical site. Activation of the SMP material may be performed with the use of a triggering force and/or a constraint applied to the SMP material. Activation using a triggering force and/or a constraint may be used to create varied activation rates in an SMP material and varying speeds and times of activation to occur in shape memory polymers in devices. The disclosure also describes devices using wedge elements for activation of shape memory response in the SMP material.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: MedShape, Inc.Inventor: Kenneth A. Gall
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Patent number: 8491583Abstract: Intramedullary medical devices (e.g., intramedullary nails) and methods for their use and manufacture are described herein. The intramedullary medical devices described herein may provide sustained compressive forces across a bone fusion site despite bone resorption processes. Through various embodiments, the intramedullary medical devices described herein may provide non-linear force curves relative to displacement. Intramedullary medical devices are described with multiple elements made of different materials. Examples of intramedullary medical devices are described with shape memory alloys.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2008Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: MedShape, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth A. Gall, Kurt Jacobus, Heidi K. Waldman, Douglas Pacaccio, Mark Harrold
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Patent number: 8430933Abstract: Methods and apparatus described herein may utilize activation of an SMP material to install medical devices with respect to a surgical site. Activation of the SMP material may be performed with the use of a triggering force and/or a constraint applied to the SMP material. Activation using a triggering force and/or a constraint may be used to create varied activation rates in an SMP material and may be combined with temperature or other activation stimuli to create the varied activation rates.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2010Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: MedShape Inc.Inventor: Kenneth A. Gall
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Patent number: 8118952Abstract: Bone fracture fixation devices, systems and methods of use and manufacture are provided. One such bone fixation device includes an elongate element having a responsive zone. The element is adapted to be coupled to the bone so that the responsive zone is positioned adjacent a fracture or fusion site in the bone. The responsive zone is adapted to apply a desired pressure to the bone when coupled thereto. In some embodiments, the responsive zone comprises a shape memory material, which may be nickel titanium or Nitinol, to apply compressive pressure across the fracture or fusion site for longer periods of time than standard bone screws.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2006Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Medshape Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth A. Gall, Jeffrey A. Tyber, Douglas Pacaccio
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Patent number: 8069858Abstract: Methods and apparatus described herein may utilize activation of an SMP material to install medical devices with respect to a surgical site. Activation of the SMP material may be performed with the use of a triggering force and/or a constraint applied to the SMP material. Activation using a triggering force and/or a constraint may be used to create varied activation rates in an SMP material and may be combined with temperature or other activation stimuli to create the varied activation rates.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2010Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Medshape Solutions, Inc.Inventor: Kenneth A. Gall
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Patent number: 7985222Abstract: The present invention provides bone fracture fixation devices, systems and methods of use and manufacture. One such bone fixation device includes an elongate element having a responsive zone. The element is adapted to be coupled to the bone so that the responsive zone is positioned adjacent a fracture site in the bone. The responsive zone is adapted to apply a desired pressure to the bone when coupled thereto. In some embodiments, the responsive zone comprises a shape memory material, which may be nickel titanium or Nitinol, to apply compressive pressure across the fracture site for longer periods of time than standard bone screws.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2005Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Medshape Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth A. Gall, Jeffrey A. Tyber, Douglas J. Pacaccio
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Publication number: 20110067712Abstract: Methods and apparatus described herein may utilize activation of an SMP material to install medical devices with respect to a surgical site. Activation of the SMP material may be performed with the use of a triggering force and/or a constraint applied to the SMP material. Activation using a triggering force and/or a constraint may be used to create varied activation rates in an SMP material and may be combined with temperature or other activation stimuli to create the varied activation rates.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2010Publication date: March 24, 2011Applicant: MEDSHAPE SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventor: Kenneth A. Gall
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Publication number: 20110004212Abstract: Intramedullary medical devices (e.g., intramedullary nails) and methods for their use and manufacture are described herein. The intramedullary medical devices described herein may provide sustained compressive forces across a bone fusion site despite bone resorption processes. Through various embodiments, the intramedullary medical devices described herein may provide non-linear force curves relative to displacement. Intramedullary medical devices are described with multiple elements made of different materials. Examples of intramedullary medical devices are described with shape memory alloys.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2008Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: Medshape Solutions Inc.Inventors: Kenneth A. Gall, Kurt Jocobus, Heidi K. Waldman, Douglas Pacaccio, Mark Harrold
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Patent number: D649248Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2010Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Medshape Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Jack C. Griffs, III, Kenneth A. Gall, Christopher M. Yakacki
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Patent number: D657872Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2010Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Medshape Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Jack C. Griffis, III, Kenneth A. Gall, Stephen Lee Laffoon
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Patent number: D657873Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2010Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Medshape Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Heidi F. Khalil, Kenneth A. Gall, James Kurt Jacobus
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Patent number: D665078Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2010Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: MedShape Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Jack C. Griffis, III, Kenneth A. Gall, Stephen Lee Laffoon
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Patent number: D681811Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2011Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: MedShape, Inc.Inventors: Jack C. Griffis, III, Kenneth A. Gall, Christopher M. Yakacki
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Patent number: D701958Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2012Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: MedShape, Inc.Inventors: Jack C. Griffis, III, Kenneth A. Gall, Kathryn Smith, Stephen Lee Laffoon, Annie E. Macedo, Kadija N. McAnuff, Mary K. Pitz